Our 22 Train & Earn Program graduates have successfully completed their post-program internship on August 1st! Guided by our internship specialist, our participants took advantage of a rare work experience opportunity with the NYC 2020 Census community outreach project, called residents in all five boroughs to remind them of and help them with their 2020 Census Questionnaire.
Our participants worked 25 hours per week for 6 weeks and reached out to a total of 86,979 NYC residents. In the process, they earned on average $2,157 per person - a not-so-small income for disadvantaged families, especially in the pandemic. And more importantly, they overcame their fear of language barriers, took on and became good at the tasks of calling strangers on the phone, and helped the City's 2020 Census outreach efforts. This got to be an amazing and unforgettable experience for our mostly new immigrant youth participants.
