STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. –– To the relief of many New Yorkers, Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) will be returning this summer. On Monday, March 22, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that applications ...

The city will offer a work-readiness training program this summer open to undocumented youth, City Limits has learned—answering calls from advocates and lawmakers who’ve been pushing for an ...

A pro-SYEP rally on the City Hall steps in 2018. The de Blasio administration had expanded the program, but its move to cancel and then restore it this year is still rippling through the youth ...

The program provides paid summer jobs, stipends and career-building experiences for New Yorkers ages 14 to 24.

“Swedish has been a part of the community for over 100 years, and it is very important for us to not only draw from the work force in this community but to also invest in the community,” said Erica ...

In the grim budget passed by the City Council late on Tuesday night, the partial, $115 million restoration of the Summer Youth Employment Program, rebranded as the SYEP Summer Bridge program, was one ...

The widely-celebrated growth of New York City’s SYEP to last year’s 75,000 slots was many years in the making, and last year over 150,000 youth applied. This year, DYCD received over 135,000 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As the future of the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) hangs in the balance, the community-based organizations (CBOs) serving as program providers are concerned ...

New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) could be seeing a boost despite proposed budget cuts, thanks to legislation in the City Council that could lead to greater participation from ...