{"id":177563,"date":"2026-04-27T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:53:09","slug":"summer-jobs-camps-and-more-available-for-philadelphia-youth-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177563\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer jobs, camps and more available for Philadelphia youth in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said she is making it easier for young people, parents and guardians to find safe and enriching activities this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parker and other city officials on Monday afternoon announced details of the effort called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/2024-04-09-welcome-to-the-home-of-itsasummerthing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It&#8217;s a Summer Thing<\/a>&#8221; for 2026, which includes more than 130 summer camps,150 rec centers with hundreds of free activities, 200 play streets and an estimated 10,000 summer jobs across the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Summer should never be a season where our children are left behind. It should be a season where they are engaged, supported, and quite frankly, inspired,&#8221; Parker said during the press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Young people ages 12 to 24 can sign up for the career-connected learning program, which offers work-based experiences that teach them about careers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/programs\/career-connected-learning-phl-c2l-phl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">deadline to apply on the Philadelphia city website<\/a> is April 30.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said she is making it easier for young people, parents and guardians to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4766,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-177563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mentioned-on-air","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}