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Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) planning and implementation
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Commissioner Howard provides an update on the planning and implementation of the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) for the 2025 season.
- SYEP provided 100,000 summer job opportunities for young people ages 14-24 last year
- The 2025 SYEP application was released on January 21, the earliest ever, to improve program quality
- Targeted recruitment events are being held in priority police precincts with high incidents of gun violence
- All SYEP participants will receive at least two hours of financial literacy education as required by local law 98
Keith Howard
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Part of this funding goes to one of our most treasured and successful programs, our summer youth employment program SYEP.
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We are in deep we are deep into our planning for the 2025 season, and I especially wanna thank the council for your strong support of this program.
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Last summer, New York City again provided a hundred thousand summer job opportunities for young people ages 14 through 24 at thousands of work sites across the city.
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We are also pleased that 30 city council members hosted a 24 SYP workers.
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And for this summer, we hope that all 51 will participate.
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Shout out to you, chair, for making that happen.
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We released the 2025 SYEP application for participants and work sites on January 21, the earliest application release ever.
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With a focus on program quality, we believe this early release would give participants more time to prepare for their summer experience and give providers time to work with the NYC business and nonprofit community to develop additional work sites.
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Today, we have 25 targeted recruitment events in priority police precinct with the highest, levels of, highest incidents of gun violence.
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We work with the crisis management group, service groups, and partnered with, NYCHA so that applicants can make use of their digital van.
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The online application closed last Friday, and we are continuing targeting and recruitment to allow participants with barriers to employment the opportunity to apply.
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This year, all SYEP participants will receive at least two hours of financial literacy education as required by local law 98.