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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Susan Graves, Licensed Social Worker from Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
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Susan Graves, a licensed social worker from Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, testified about the YouthBuild program and its impact on young people. She highlighted the program's approach to supporting candidates through individualized attention and comprehensive education.
- YouthBuild provides small class sizes and individualized attention to prevent candidates from falling through the cracks.
- The program offers daily instruction in math, English, public speaking, civic engagement, writing, and study skills.
- Graves emphasized the unprecedented challenges faced by young people, especially in the wake of the pandemic, and called for increased support for such programs.
Susan Graves
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Susan Graves.
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I'm a licensed social worker and I work with YouthBuild over at Nimiq, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation.
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So, course, YouthBuild helps for candidates.
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They're not clients.
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You know, not Many of us are candidates.
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Know, candidates are somebody who's hoping for something in the future.
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So we help them by of course we have small class sizes and individualized attention which is really key to our candidates not falling through the cracks.
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In a just world, there should be no cracks to fall through.
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I shouldn't have a job.
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None of us should have a job.
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We should just have a fair and just equitable society.
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So we provide instruction every day on basics like math and English, but also on things like public speaking, on civic engagement such as what we're doing today.
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This is very valuable experience.
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Writing and study skills.
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And so, short, it's really support for becoming a healthy, engaged adult in today's world, and we're facing a lot of very unprecedented challenges during times, especially after the pandemic, which has disrupted the routines, the daily life, learning, growth, and growth for an entire generation.
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So our candidates deserve much, much more than we could ever hope to give, and I'm asking for your support in getting there.
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Thank you very much.