A Model For Success
Quick Facts About Verbum Dei High School
• Verbum Dei is a Jesuit
college and career preparatory
high school that serves
economically and educationally
underserved African American and
Latino students in Watts and the
surrounding communities.
• Eight years ago Verbum Dei
adopted an innovative Corporate
Work Study Program created to
fund inner-city College and
career prep education.
• 100% of Verbum Dei students
gain college acceptance. 70
percent have been going on to 4
year colleges and universities.
30 percent have been going to
community colleges.
Quick Facts about the
Corporate Work Study Program
• CWSP is an innovative and
award winning, successful
partnership between business,
education and the young
gentlemen of Verbum Dei in
Watts.
• Participating organizations
give us one “full-time
equivalent” student internship
for a fee of $28,000
• The position is filled by four
highly motivated young men from
low-income families with an
average work attendance of 99
percent;
• Each student works five full
days a month on a rotational
basis, and they attend classes
and participate in
extracurricular activities the
remaining days
• 97 percent of our student
interns receive a performance
evaluation of good or excellent.
• Although most of our students
benefit from various internship
experiences, 37 percent of our
seniors have remained at the
company they were placed with
their freshman year.
• Verbum Dei takes care of all
transportation, insurance,
workers compensation, and work
permits associated with the
student interns.
• One of our CWSP staff is
assigned to your account as your
program coordinator to co-manage
the students with you.
• This program also offers our
corporate partners significant
social and strategic benefits by
enabling them to make a very
direct and tangible difference
in the lives of young men
seeking a better future through
quality education and work
experience in a corporate
environment
• Our mission is to build up our
inner-city one student at a
time, developing tomorrow’s
leaders today.
