VISIONS Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired will use this award to improve their Summer Youth Work Experience Training (SYWET) program, which places participants into paid summer internships.
ICD’s Youth Employment Services (YES) program combines educational and vocational services with a focus on mental health to help youth ages 16 to 21 with serious emotional disturbances (SED) transition to independent living.
Grace Outreach provides GED preparation, coaching, and mentoring for low-income women in the South Bronx to build their academic skills and help them transition to higher education, vocational training, and/or employment.
Through the Teen Leadership Program, Girls Quest works with teenage girls to develop social, academic, and leadership skills. The goal is to prepare them to successfully navigate their challenging high school years as well as train them to be peer ...
Among THE POINT’s after-school offerings is the Middle Grades Program, which currently consists of the ICP at the POINT (a photography program) and a more comprehensive program that provides homework help and arts and recreation.
Friends of the Children NY provides full-time mentors (called “Friends”) to work one-on-one with severely at-risk children from kindergarten through high school.
The New York Asian Women’s Center’s Children’s Program (NYAWC) helps youth recover from trauma related to family violence through individual counseling, support groups, case management/advocacy, and recreational activities.
Operation Exodus-Inner City operates an after-school program that offers homework help, literacy and math skills development, and recreational activities.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
