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DOE discusses connecting SYEP opportunities with Future Ready pathways
2:25:14
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40 sec
Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos briefly discusses efforts to connect Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) opportunities with the DOE's Future Ready pathways initiative.
- The DOE has partnered with the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to align SYEP opportunities with Future Ready pathways.
- The goal is to ensure that students' summer jobs are related to their chosen career pathways, such as healthcare.
- Council Member Stevens expresses frustration, indicating that this conversation has been ongoing since she joined the council.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
2:25:14
So as we also as Flavia also mentioned earlier, we have an excellent partnership with DYCD.
2:25:21
Commissioner Howard and I had a conversation about making sure that SYEP opportunities are connected to our future ready, our larger pathways work, so that way if you are doing some sort of a job in healthcare and now you are in an SYEP job, there is a potential for you to be in a job that is in the same industry.
2:25:43
So Commissioner Howard and I had those conversations very early on about
Rita Joseph
2:25:46
Well I've
Althea V. Stevens
2:25:46
been having that conversation since I got here, so I feel like a lot of that is wasted too.
2:25:51
And I'm happy you even brought that up because that's my last question and and chairs I'll be done.