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Letter to the Editor:
In response to Bob Herbert's Out of Sight
Bob Herbert, columnist for The New York Times,
is one of the most knowledgeable and compassionate national
voices in behalf of young, out of school youth in America today
for whom finding steady employment is a nearly impossible task.
In June 2008, Mr. Herbert published his latest column on these
"disconnected" youth, entitled Out of Sight, and in response
the Isaacs Center wrote the following Letter to the Editor about
the challenges - and successes - of our Youth Employment and
Education Program:
June 10, 2008
To the Editor:
We thank Bob Herbert for focusing much needed attention in
his June 10 column on the barriers to employment facing young
women and men who are disconnected and out of school.
We have been working with these “hardest to serve”
young people for 28 years through our Youth Employment and
Education Program, which serves our East Harlem/Yorkville
neighborhoods and beyond. Trial and error have taught us that
individualized training is essential when you teach basic
employable skills, and that offering GED Plus courses, job
placement services, college and vocational school prep, psycho-social
counseling and peer-support workshops are essential if you
are going to help these young people deal with the multiple
pressures that can so easily derail their lives.
Read
the entire letter...
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New York Shares Convention Leftovers, No Complaints
By: Jennifer Steinhauer
The New York Times Metro
October 9, 2004
Last month, the fancy folding chairs were the literal seats of power, used by Republican delegates at their convention at Madison Square Garden. Now, the chairs play the supporting role in tasks more humble – a game of bridge, a glance at the newspaper, a gaze out the window.
Three thousand chairs that served as delegates’ perches when
they nominated their candidate and listened to Arnold Schwarzenegger
were donated by the New York City Host Committee to the Department
of Aging, which began sending them to centers for the elderly
around the city yesterday. Read
the full article...
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Telephone Balladeers, Sharing Old Melodies and Square Meals
By: Sam Knight
The New York Times The City
August 1, 2004
Just After lunch last Wednesday, Tracy Zyrski, an assistant at the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center at 415 East 93rd Street, picked up the phone and started dialing. As she does most days, Ms. Zyrski was assembling a conference of elders.
“This is the singalong hold on, please,” she said briskly, before
patching each caller into the slightly restive telephone crowd
– a muffled mixture of the coughs and friendly “what’s?” and
“hellos” of men and women, mainly in their 80’s and 90’s, gathered
at their phones from Staten Island to the Upper East Side. Read
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