2011 Boot Camp

To apply for our Summer YouthBuild Boot Camp CLICK HERE

In addition to completing the online application, applicants must download and fill out the supplimental documents.

To obtain the Supplimental Documents CLICK HERE

Once you have completed the online application, you MUST come to 1405 State Street at the below listed time for an interview. You will NOT receive additional correspondance regarding this interview. This is the ONLY CORRESPONDANCE/COMFIRMATION you will recieve.

Please arrive on the appropriate date, at the approporiate time based on your last name. Please bring the completed Supplimental Documents with you at that time.

Please be prepared. The process may last a few hours.

DARRIS IVY cannot say enough about how EPDC has changed his life.  When he entered Tomorrow’s Builders YouthBuild Charter School in 2000, he was running the streets, had no job and was abusing drugs.
                “At that time, I thought that was life, but it’s not,” says Darris.  “EPDC motivated me.  I wanted to go back to school and to be someone.  I wanted my daughter’s grandchildren to know their great-grandfather did something in life.”
                Darris now works in housekeeping at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri.  He is respected among the staff as a hard worker and daily uses what he learned at EPDC, such as always looking people in the eye.
                “Darris has been a great asset and addition to the hotel,” says Housekeeping Supervisor Stephanie Mickler.  “He has really helped move the department forward.”
                Darris sees the EPDC staff as his family and frequently stops by to say “hello”.
                “No one sees EPDC like I see it,” Darris says.  “They took the time to sit down with me, and learn who I was.”  He has the utmost respect for EPDC’s Executive Director Vickie Kimmel Forby and says, “She made something out of nothing and knowing that is what makes me keep going every day.”