 This year marked the 4th and final year of our partnership with Youth Inc. and the Celebration Gala. On Thursday, November 13, 2019, Roads to Success (RTS) staff, board members, families and supporters celebrated together at the Grand Hyatt New York alongside ten other nonprofit organizations who are working tirelessly on behalf of New York City Youth. Thank you to everyone who supported or attended the event. We are deeply grateful for your commitment to building roads for our youth. Special thanks goes to Eliza and Jada who represented RTS on stage and spoke with confidence and grace. Thank you Youth Inc. for this partnership and everyone who has supported and attended the event through the years. Stay tuned for our new event next year that will continue to celebrate and champion the success of our Future Leaders.
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 Roads to Success Summer Youth finish up their rehearsals at Street Corner Resources, Harlem Tragic events in the news this summer have reminded Americans about the dangers of gun violence. The epidemic, according to our Summer Youth, is a reminder of the trauma that has affected far too many American families, including here in NYC.
That's why our SYEP (Summer Youth Employment Program) participants who were hosted at Street Corner Resources of Harlem have developed a performance that they hope will spread a message of "Love, Peace, Safety, Awareness and Acceptance." Because our government has not succeeded in curbing deadly shootings with adequate policy reform, the group decided to use their melange of performance skills - a combination of acting, dance, song, spoken word and rap - to create a piece that focuses on personal choices including whether gun ownership is worth the serious risk that comes along with fatalities from homicides, suicides and accidental death. The ensemble discussed how their SYEP experience taught them that they could use their summers to gain new skills and passions while also inspiring communities affected by violence to bond together. One participant, Nahshon added "This is my first opportunity acting, but it now feels like a passion for me. And now I realize that everybody's going through their own situations and traumas, but we're not alone." This SYEP group is only a small portion of Roads to Success Summer Youth, 550 of whom we have placed in paid summer jobs, internships and training programs in fields such as the arts, law, criminal justice, fashion, culinary, retail, education and much more. The program has been made possible by successful fundraising efforts by Roads to Success supporters, all of our SYEP work site partners and the Department of Youth and Community Development. The ensemble aims to take their piece to local theaters and school assemblies to inspire people of all ages to be conscious and make safe choices when it comes to gun violence, police brutality, bullying, honoring the elderly and more. This August, they had their first performance at PS 166 in Manhattan.
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