Potential needs a path.
Sportlinc Pathways connects young people with opportunities in Lynchburg’s regional workforce. Through assessment, career preparation, and access to internships, we help underserved youth discover where they can thrive while building the relationships, resources, and social capital needed to succeed.
Prepare. Discover. Apply. Experience.
The model is simple: help young people get ready, understand themselves, pursue the right opportunities, and learn through real experience.
Get workplace ready
Build workplace readiness through Sportlinc resources and, when appropriate, preparation offered by schools, youth organizations, or other community partners.
Understand yourself
Complete a professional assessment, receive an individualized report, and participate in a facilitated group interpretation to connect strengths and development areas to the world of work.
Pursue opportunity
Identify appropriate internships and get help understanding the opportunity and navigating the application process.
Learn through real work
If selected by an employer, gain real workplace experience, relationships, expectations, feedback, and a clearer next step.
What a young person receives.
Assessment + individual report
Personal results that improve self-understanding and help connect strengths and development areas to career possibilities.
Group interpretation
A trained practitioner helps the cohort understand and use the results. Limited individual follow-up may be available when appropriate and resources permit.
Career-readiness preparation
Participants receive or are connected to preparation for workplace expectations, résumé development, interviewing, professional communication, and internships.
Access to opportunity
Sportlinc helps young people identify appropriate internships and apply. Placement is not guaranteed; participants must meet employer requirements and earn each opportunity.
There is more than one way into the pathway.
Pathways works best when young people, youth-serving organizations, and employers each bring what they do well.
Explore Pathways
Interested in participating? Tell us a little about the young person, their interests, and the community or organization they are connected to.
Youth + Family InterestBring Pathways to your youth
Partner with Sportlinc to connect an existing group of young people to assessment, career exploration, employer relationships, and internship opportunities.
Organization PartnershipBuild a pathway into your industry
Help define success in important roles, sponsor youth, offer career exposure, or make internship opportunities available.
Employer PartnershipReal work. Real feedback. Real growth.
The employer becomes part of the learning experience through three simple checkpoints.
Define responsibilities, professional standards, and what success will look like.
Provide a structured progress evaluation and coaching conversation during the internship.
Provide feedback on performance, growth, strengths, development needs, and possible next steps.
Access is more than an introduction.
Pathways is designed to help young people build the information, relationships, resources, and social capital that often make opportunity easier to see and pursue.
Build a pathway. Grow a leader.
Role Pathway Sponsor
- 1 Role Success Profile
- Learn from proven performers
- Create a real-world career reference for youth
Pathway Partner
- 1 Role Success Profile
- 1 youth cohort
- Up to 25 young people served
Workforce Pipeline Partner
- 2 Role Success Profiles
- 2 youth cohorts
- Up to 50 young people served
Community Pathway Partner
- 4 Role Success Profiles
- 5 youth cohorts
- Up to 125 young people served
- Additional program support
Regional Pathway Partner
- 6 Role Success Profiles
- 10 youth cohorts
- Up to 250 young people served
- Expanded program capacity
Sponsorship levels describe intended program capacity. Actual cohort size, internship availability, and individual assistance may vary by partner, participant needs, and available opportunities.
Help us connect young people to what comes next.
Support a cohort, become a youth-serving partner, or help create a real opportunity in your workplace.