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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Jacarra Sanders, YouthBuild participant from Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
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Jacarra Sanders, a YouthBuild participant from the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, testifies about her positive experiences with the program. She highlights how YouthBuild has helped her overcome personal challenges, provided educational and life skills support, and treated her with respect despite her background.
- The program has helped Sanders manage her anxiety and build confidence in new environments
- YouthBuild teaches practical skills such as financial management and house hunting
- The staff provides a family-like atmosphere, offering personal support and guidance for future plans
Youth Participant
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Good afternoon.
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How you all doing?
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My name is Jacarra Sanders.
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I'm a youth bill participant and some like them unlike them, I'm from down south.
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So my whole experience here has been different than most.
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I'm grateful for my youth build team.
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They not only helped me deal with educational aspects of things in life, but they also helped me deal with life itself.
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I deal with anxiety, so when I'm walking into a new environment, new anything, honestly, it it if I don't feel like I got it, it gets overwhelming, and with that being said, they helped me really helped me understand that I got it.
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They speak life into us.
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They help coach us through a lot of things, not just with finance, but right now, we're learning how to search for houses.
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We're learning how to manage our money.
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They teach us how to work with individuals, each other, our peers, to talk to each other when we we get frustrated, when we have differences because we come from the same situations, but we don't come from the same situations.
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So, they help us understand that we're equal and in a whole lump sum of what I'm trying to say is no matter where you come from, no matter they teach you the same with the utmost respect, like, you would want to be treated in a sense like a human.
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I appreciate that because I've done been in jail.
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I done been a lot of places.
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So lot of people would judge you based off of that, and they don't judge us at all.
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They treat us how we wanna be treated, and they help us push us to the future.
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They care about what we're doing when we leave, not just for the day, but what our next steps are, what we're gonna do when we get our GED, how we're gonna do that.
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What else is it?
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They also really honestly talk to you about you, your your personal self, your mental, like she said.
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It's just it's a family oriented thing for me.
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So they treat me like our family, so I treat them like they're my family.
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Right now, they're the best thing that happened to me since I've been in New York.
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They're giving me a sense of hope that humanity is still alive.