Chances are that in the midst of the winter holidays, few San Francisco high school students are dwelling on summer vacation or the jobs they might take then to earn some money.

But 18-year-old Carolina Orozco is already making plans.

This month, Orozco and more than a dozen classmates gathered in Hilltop High School’s Room 235 to talk with Mayor London Breed about her initiative to provide paid internships and job-training programs for all San Francisco high school students by summer.

Breed announced the project in October, and businesses and city agencies have already pledged to make more than 100 new internships available.

“Usually, I’ve worked with my mom cleaning houses,” Orozco said. “This is a way for me to have a job and earn money and see something from a different perspective.”

In a semicircle of classroom chairs, the students listened as Breed made her pitch for the internship program. A few students held babies in their laps or bounced them gently on their knees to keep them content as the mayor spoke. All of Hilltop’s roughly 50 teenage students are either pregnant or parents.

Getting an internship For more information about San Francisco’s Opportunities for All program, visit www.opps4allsf.org, email Opps4All@sfgov.org or call 415-252-2509.

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Breed began by recounting her own experiences growing up in public housing in the Western Addition. She described feeling adrift in an impoverished and frequently violent neighborhood.

“I didn’t necessarily feel like I belonged anywhere and wasn’t sure about my career, about what I could do to take care of myself. I was thinking, ‘How do I get out of this situation of poverty?’” Breed said. “I went to more funerals than I can remember because of violence in our community. I have family members and friends behind bars, folks who were struggling with drug addiction and other things. And I want to change that.”

Breed says the internship she landed at the Family School, a nonprofit that provides services to young families, was a pivotal moment in her life. Even banal tasks like filing paperwork and answering phones became formative experiences. And the pay didn’t hurt.

Her goal, she said, is to open similar doors for San Francisco’s youths — providing them with paying jobs, pairing them with mentors and exposing them to career possibilities. “This is about trying to help you grow and develop and understand your environment,” she said.

“Hopefully, she has some office jobs — I would love to work in an office and answer the phones, like she did,” said 18-year-old Danyell Henderson, who said she sees herself becoming a nurse someday. “Whatever comes first, I would love to take it. If it’s (an internship) in the medical field, then hey, it’s the medical field.”

Orozco’s face brightens when she talks about the business she wants to open one day — “something with clothing or jewelry,” she said. But in the summer, if she can, she’d like a job working with teenage mothers like herself.

In addition to asking government departments and businesses to make 20-hour-a-week summer jobs available, city officials are seeking donations from companies that want to help but don’t have internships for high school students.

The city has also raised $670,000 — one-third of the program’s $2 million goal — to pay interns at nonprofits and in government agencies that lack funding of their own. Alaska Airlines has pledged $150,000 annually for two years, and Google has agreed to put up $100,000.

Sheryl Evans Davis, the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission who is helping to organize Breed’s effort, said companies including Airbnb, Dolby, Postmates, Escape From New York Pizza, and Salt and Straw have agreed to hire interns. So has the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

More than 70 city departments have also agreed to bring on at least one intern, including the mayor’s office and the Department of Public Works, as have the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Breed and her staff didn’t come to Hilltop just to talk about the program’s potential benefits. They were also there to ask the students about what barriers they would have to grapple with to maintain a summer job.

The students rattled off problems such as finding child care and arranging for transportation. Some students asked whether their immigration status would prevent them from landing jobs.

City officials have pledged to provide internships to all students regardless of immigration status.

Davis is also collecting information about where students are most interested in working and where they have worked so far.

Most of the 400 high school students surveyed for the program so far “have only had jobs in rec centers,” she said. “Even though they’re interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or other things like law enforcement, they haven’t had the experience or the opportunity to engage in those career industries.”

Orozco is still dreaming of opening her own shop someday. But until then, she’s excited about the array of summer job options Opportunities for All has promised to create.

“Business, that’s what I really want to do. If you keep seeing options, you’ll find something that you really love,” Orozco said.

Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: dfracassa@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @dominicfracassa