Each year, CCM places over 1,900 youth ages 14-24 in subsidized and monitored employment training positions in a variety of community workplaces, with many matched to jobs aligned with their career interest. Through this program, participants gain work experience, leadership skills, and build professional networks. They are encouraged to develop social, communication, critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and self-management skills.
CCM counselors offer support to make these experiences successful and productive. Youth participants learn about work norms and culture, and how to dress for various work sites and manage money. They are encouraged to complete their high school education and explore higher education opportunities.
CCM offers five SYEPs:
Community-Based Program matches participants to opportunities aligned with their career path. Through this program, participants explore different career interests and paid work experience each summer. The participants develop productive workplace habits and leadership skills.
Emerging Leader Program provides employment opportunities to participants who face at least one of the following employment barriers: homeless or runaway youth, justice-involved youth, youth in or aging out of foster care, and/or youth in families who are receiving preventive services through NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).
NYCHA MAP provides work opportunities to youth who currently reside in the Brooklyn NYCHA Red Hook, Gowanus, Wyckoff, and Farragut housing developments. We assist the youth in navigating life challenges, empower them through work experience, and project-based learning.
SYEP Sector Focus Initiative is designed to strengthen connections between school-year instruction and education with sector-based summer youth employment. CCM works to ensure that 125 youth acquire meaningful summer job opportunities within particular employment sectors that participants are focusing on in the school-based clubs they attend and/or the extracurricular activities they actively participate in during the school year.
Younger Youth Program offers a “Pre-SYEP” experience for adolescents ages 14-15 years. CCM provides project-based learning for youth eager to learn about career opportunities, and make a difference in their communities through a paid experience. This program provides a social-emotional learning and work-based learning experience.
This program is funded by the NYC Division of Youth and Community Development.
