Advance and Earn Program Concept Paper Released for Comments
The Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and the NYC Young Men’s Initiative has issued a Concept Paper for Advance & Earn — a new employment and education program for opportunity youth — young people who are not in school and not working — in NYC ages 16–24.
Advance and Earn will offer NYC opportunity youth of different skill levels a continuum of services from literacy instruction through advanced training and assistance with job placement or college enrollment. Participants will also receive support services tailored to their individual needs. The goals of the program are to achieve improved educational and employment outcomes, and ultimately to improve the career trajectories of opportunity youth.
The design of Advance & Earn is based on lessons learned from implementing and evaluating our Young Adult Internship Program (now known as Intern & Earn) and Young Adult Literacy models as well as insights collected from stakeholder feedback sessions conducted following the recommendations of the Nonprofit Resiliency Committee as laid out in our Guide to Collaborative Communication with Human Services Providers.
For more information download the Concept Paper. We encourage those interested in this program to send comments to CP@dycd.nyc.gov by January 14, 2019. Comments received will assist with developing a request for proposals.
