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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Youth Safety and Success Initiative
3:23:22
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Commissioner Dannhauser outlines the new Youth Safety and Success Initiative, a $40 million annual investment in programs supporting youth in foster care and those at risk of justice involvement.
- Expansion of College Choice program to over 500 youth
- Creation of Career Choice Workforce Ready program for vocational and job readiness training
- Expansion of Fair Futures to serve an additional 2,000 young people
- Expansion of the Neuro and Girls Just Us diversion programs to Queens and The Bronx
- Citywide expansion of Assertive Community Engagement and Success (ACES) program for high-risk youth ages 16-24
Jess Dannhauser
3:23:22
As seen in the preliminary budget, Youth Safety and Success is nearly a $40,000,000 annual investment in programs aimed at supporting youth in foster care and those at risk of justice involvement.
3:23:33
This initiative is comprised of five components that include the expansion of successful programs and the creation of one new one.
3:23:40
For youth in foster care, the initiative will provide funding to expand College Choice to over 500 youth.
3:23:45
In addition, it will create a new program, Career Choice Workforce Ready, which builds off the success of College Choice, connecting young people in foster care who choose not to go to a two or four year college with similar financial, social and academic support, as well as vocational and job readiness trainings.
3:24:01
The funding will also enable us to expand Fair Futures to serve an additional 2,000 young people.
3:24:07
To help address the needs of youth in the community who are at risk of justice involvement, we will expand the diversion program Neural and its Girls Just Us, currently operating in Brooklyn to Queens and The Bronx.
3:24:17
Finally we will expand assertive community engagement and success, ACES, which I mentioned earlier, citywide.
3:24:22
ACES provides evidence based services to high risk youth who have been involved in the justice system by providing social pathways away from gang and gun violence for youth ages 16 to 24.