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Council member Stevens emphasizes the importance of youth employment programs
2:25:55
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Council Member Althea V. Stevens highlights the critical need for reimagining the workforce to provide job opportunities for young people in New York City. She discusses existing programs like Learning to Work (LTW) and Future Ready, emphasizing their success in helping youth secure employment.
- Stevens shares personal experiences with these programs, including her nephew's success through Future Ready.
- She stresses the importance of providing paid internships and real money to young people now.
- The council member calls for expanding these programs to reach more youth and prevent them from falling through the cracks.
Althea V. Stevens
2:25:55
Just around my other big push is reimagining the workforce because again, people everywhere I go, they're like miss I need a job, I want a job, how do I get a job?
2:26:05
And I think that we have a lot of bones here around how we can get every child in the city a job if we just figure this out.
2:26:12
Right?
2:26:13
I know we have LTW, which I'm a huge champion of.
2:26:17
Worked in that program, seen how it works, understand it, actually was the LBW coordinator at a YBC, loved the program.
2:26:23
And then future ready, which my nephew literally went through, currently works at Mastercard because of this program, and actually works with you guys all the time around this.
2:26:33
And, you know, and thinking about if we have those in schools and then we're looking at work expanding work learn grow, we can get young people jobs now.
2:26:41
And not talking about, obviously, we want career pathways, but we're talking about getting them real money now.
2:26:46
So I would love for you guys to talk a little bit about what does that work look like of getting young people paid internships?
2:26:51
What do you need from us, and how do we continue to get you money to support it?
2:26:55
Because, again, we focus a lot on pre k in here, but we are not talking about how we're losing these kids.
2:27:00
And I would love to hear about like what are some of the other internship opportunities whether it's through community schools and things like that so we can get real money into these young people's hands now.