Save the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)

The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) is one of the foundations of New York City’s youth programming. SYEP employs 75,000 young New Yorkers every summer — 81% from communities of color, like East New York and Brownsville, and 56% young women.

For young people growing up in working-class neighborhoods like East New York and Brownsville, SYEP is a critical step towards economic empowerment. With families across the City facing economic hardship, a paid summer job for a young person helps an entire family.

I join the Friends of Wilfredo Florentino, as well as our neighbors across NYC and in the 42nd Council District - East New York, New Lots, Remsen Village, Spring Creek, and Starrett City - to demand that Mayor de Blasio, the New York City Council and the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development fully fund the Summer Youth Employment Program for 2020 and allow the program to shift to safe and remote work sites.

Let’s #SaveSYEP!