Learning to Work Virtual Orientation Recap
If you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life. A phrase that we’ve all heard time and time again. But what if you don’t know what you love to do? [...]
Save Learning to Work
Job hunting is tough. Most people do not have the luxury of waiting for the perfect opportunity to present itself. It’s a scramble for many of us and in the COVID-19 world it’s even more difficult. [...]
Summer Youth Employment Program goes Virtual in 2020
Students presenting their final project for instructors and administrators Think back to your first job. Did you feel hopeless at times? Were there ever problems that arose that you weren’t quite sure how to solve? [...]
Restorative Justice and Community Healing: Circle on Police Violence
Recently, the NYCID Conflict Management team created a safe space for our community to express themselves, process feelings, and find healing as our country continues to grapple with the racial prejudice and police violence. The [...]
How exciting is it to help people with Romel Shuler?
In order to best introduce Romel, it's necessary to share a quick story about our new Program Director for NYCID’s Intense Community Monitoring (ICM) Program. I had arrived at 130 Stuyvesant Place on Romel’s second day with [...]
Pierre gives NYCID an Advantage
Hey team! Meet Pierre Deshauturus. Brother Pierre is our newest Social Worker at Port Richmond’s After School Advantage Program. Last week, I had the chance to shake Pierre’s hand at the school while he [...]
Yeah, that’s right Mr. P just joined YABC!
Pavel Valera has taken the reins as Program Director for NYCID's SIYABC. When I caught up with Pavel, he shared that the reason he loves working with YABC students. It's because they are the kids who [...]
From Classic Rock to Taylor Swift.
Joshua (Josh) Meltzer joined the NYCID team in January 2019 as an Advocate Counselor at the Concord High School Learning to Work Program. He’s a native Staten Islander who went down to Florida for a bit [...]
Alexa Lotito Joins NYCID’s Team as an Advocate Counselor at Concord High School
Lexie is from Staten Island and she loves to bake! In January NYCID brought on several new super talented team members. We are so excited to welcome Alexa Lotito to our team. Alexa says she’ll respond [...]
YABC Graduates for January 2019
NYCID’s Young Adult Borough Center (YABC) program recently held a graduation ceremony for this semester’s students. There were 43 Graduates - one of our largest January classes since the program started. The program offers students in [...]