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SYEP enrollment policy and application numbers
2:25:17
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the new policy to de-enroll SYEP participants who don't complete work readiness tasks and asks about application numbers for the program.
- New policy allows for several thousand more students to participate in SYEP by filling slots of those who don't show up
- Exact numbers of de-enrolled students to be provided offline
- Application deadline was 03/14/2025, but recruitment is still ongoing for special initiatives
- Application numbers are expected to exceed last year's figures
Althea V. Stevens
2:25:17
Recently DY City implemented a new policy to de enroll SY employees enrollees who did not complete the key work readiness tasks prior to July 1.
2:25:26
This policy was initiated in efforts to reopen those slots for those applicants.
2:25:32
How many students does the agency de enroll in fiscal twenty twenty five?
Valerie Mulligan
2:25:35
So I can get you all of that info offline.
2:25:37
I don't want to misspeak but I will say that we were really excited about the policy because what we had seen in the past was that after we enrolled a young person a lot of times they weren't showing up for the job, they weren't completing the work readiness training and that slot was essentially going unfilled.
2:25:51
So what we able to do last year was have several thousand more students participate in SYEP and fill slots when other young people didn't show up.
Althea V. Stevens
2:26:00
Is the agency tracking the applicants that are already enrolled?
Valerie Mulligan
2:26:03
Yeah absolutely.
2:26:03
I have it for you.
2:26:04
I can get it for you offline.
Althea V. Stevens
2:26:05
The deadline for the application submission was 03/14/2025.
2:26:09
How many applicants applications were received?
Valerie Mulligan
2:26:12
So that was the public deadline but we are still actively recruiting in our special initiatives so I don't have a final number for you yet.
2:26:19
I will say that what I've seen so far is the numbers are really big.
2:26:23
We have a lot of interest in the program this year.
2:26:25
I expect that we will far exceed, I've already seen we've exceeded the application number that we had last year and I think it's going to keep growing.