Co-op Clothing Tech: Began at Orr Campus in conjunction with After School Matters in 2004, youth apprentices create and develop a small business that provides design and silk-screen printing services, focusing mainly on t-shirt production, for other community-based organizations. Co-op Clothing Tech has designed and printed t-shirts for numerous church and community groups, including Kuumba Lynx, Chicago Future Filmmakers, Columbia College, Young Chicago Authors, and After School Matters, as well as countless individuals. This year, Clothing Tech has been commissioned by AASTA High School at Orr Campus to design and produce 500 hundred school uniforms.
So Fresh Printing is a core group of youth who are using the skills they learned as apprentices in the Co-op Clothing Tech program to create their own youth-operated screen-printing business. As a program initiated, operated, and sustained entirely by youth, So Fresh Printing exemplifies the goals of Co-op Image's youth empowerment model.
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