Improving Youth Services in New York City

Through the Blossom Program for Girls, Youth Empowerment Mission (YEM) offers girls ages 11 to 21 counseling, case management, life skills/leadership development, mentoring, internships, educational services, and recreational activities.

In LINC’s Teen Tutoring Reading Partner Program, middle and high school students read weekly with elementary school children, building literacy skills and creating opportunities for community service. Central to the quality of the program is the direct training of ...

Global Kids provides students throughout New York City with opportunities for civic and global engagement.

Children’s PressLine operates an after-school journalism program, where adolescent and teen participants work in teams to research story topics and conduct interviews with peers and policymakers on issues that affect young people in the community.

Cardinal Shehan Center provides a range of recreational, educational, and social services to young people in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.

READ trains middle and high school students to teach reading skills to elementary school students after school and during the summer. Due to competing financial and scheduling constraints, many teen tutors are unable to complete the tutoring cycle.

The Brooklyn College Community Partnership (BCCP), which provides school-day and after-school programs to approximately 1,500 middle and high school students in central Brooklyn, plans to develop and implement a comprehensive professional development program for staff who are transitioning from...

Brooklyn Children’s Museum plans to address declining enrollment and participation among 6th to 8th grade students by restructuring its “Museum Team” after-school program to include a separate middle school component.

The Staten Island Children’s Museum plans to improve its Constructive Mood Management (CMM) Program, which trains the Museum’s Ambassadors (high school interns) to work with elementary school students on conflict resolution and anger management.

Dancewave, Inc., with help from a consultant, will create an improved curriculum, develop a school handbook, and institute a faculty training program for Dancewave AfterSchool, which offers kids and teens (ages 8 to 18) the opportunity to study a wide spectrum of ...