Richmond Summer Youth Employment Program SYEP Highlights

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Richmond Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Highlights
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Staffing

• Program manager
• 4 case managers
• 4 administrative interns
• Payroll department

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Overall Youth Placements
600 500 400 300 200 100 0
Number of youth
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Community-Wide Support
Employer partners provided 110 work sites for 526
youth in 2008

• Private Business 35
• City Work Sites 31
• CBO 29
• School-Based-Work Sites 15
• Other Public Agencies 10

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Sponsors Raised 506,000 in 2008

• City of Richmond 300,000
• Chevron 75,000
• Contra Costa CSBG 40,000
• Walmart Entrepreneurial Program 10,000
• PGE Foundation 7,500
• Cherokee Brooks Street 5,000
• E T Project Helping Hand 5,000
• COR CDBG (Project We Care) 5,000
• Courtyard Marriott (In Kind) 5,000
• Kaiser Optical 4,000
• Greenlining Institute 4,500
• Clorox 3,500
• Contra Costa College (In Kind) 3,000

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Sponsors Raised 506,000 in 2008

• Transcept Pharmaceutical 3,000
• Veolia Water 3,000
• West County Times Newspaper 2,500
• General Chemical 2,000
• Plant Reclamation 2,000
• Trico Pipe (Plumbers Local 159) 2,000
• Sims Metals 2,000
• Vetrazzo 2,000
• Mechanics Bank 1,500
• Auto Warehousing 1,000
• California Oils 1,000
• Council of Industries 1,000
• Dutra Group 1,000

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Sponsors Raised 506,000 in 2008

• Genser Watkins 1,000
• Kaiser Foundation 1,000
• Levin-Richmond Terminal 1,000
• Richmond PD (CD Sales) 1,000
• Richmond Pacific Railroad 1,000
• Schlumberger Technologies 1,000
• WCCUSD (In Kind) 725
• Tim Shaw 300
• Chamber of Commerce 200
• Richard S. Kochan 100
• Laura Kuhn 100
• Cassandra Youngblood 100

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Collaborators 2007-2008
Number of youth
A.P.P.S./SEAYL
Career Academy
Familias Unidas
YMCA
NHNR
E.B.C.P. A.
Opportunity West
Richmond SOL
N.R.Y.A.E.P.
Collaborators
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Demographics
90 of youth come from households earning less
than 40,000 per year

• 65 African American
• 20 Hispanic
• 8 Asian
• 5 Mixed/Other
• 2 White

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Gender Comparison 2007-2008
Number of youth
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Age Group Comparison
Number of youth
Age
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RECRUITMENT

• School District
• Community centers
• Youth service organizations
• Churches
• Children and Family Services
• Juvenile Justice System

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Preparing Our Youth For The Future

• Academic and Career Assessments
• Resume and Interview Prep
• Financial Literacy and Money Management
• Parent/Youth Orientation

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Cutting Edge Jobs

• Rising Sun Energy
• Art Academy of San Francisco
• Greenlining Institute
• Mainstreet Retail Project
• RichmondBUILD
• Summer School
• Transcept Pharmaceuticals
• Clorox Greenworks Products

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2008 Accomplishments

• Doubled our Collaborative Partnerships
• Raised an additional 50,000 over 2007
• Increased storefront and retail placements by 20
  over last year
• Increased community capacity to train and employ
  youth
• Implemented work readiness preparation in the
  classroom
• Increased business confidence in youth workforce

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Improvements for 2009

• Standardize pre-employment training
• Implemented sexual harassment training module
• Specialized orientations for worksites
• Identify and implement volunteer roles

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Thank You!
Jennielyn Dino Rossi Consultant (415)
375-9577 jdinorossi_at_gmail.com
Jay Leonhardy Program Manager Richmond
YouthWORKS [phone] jleonhardy_at_richmondworks
.org __________________________________ Gilbert
Pete Employment Specialist II Richmond
YouthWORKS [phone] gpete_at_richmondworks.org