NYC Summer YouthWRAP participants to help with Hurricane Sandy restoration projects
Approximately 450 teens who are currently on probation are going to be spending their summer helping to restore neighborhoods which were badly damaged during Hurricane Sandy.
On Monday, July 8, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs and Department of Probation Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi joined together at Barclays Center at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues to announce the kickoff of the NYC Summer YouthWRAP program, a seven-week program that will connect the youthful probation clients, between the ages of 14 and 18, to paid summer jobs at Hurricane Sandy restoration projects in all five boroughs.
“When we launched NYC YouthWRAP, some skeptics wondered if we’d really be able to get a bunch of teenagers out of bed at the crack of dawn on the weekend to put in a hard day’s work on some challenging projects,” said Schiraldi. “The skeptics were wrong – more than 70 percent of the [84] young people who started with the program are here with us today, and we’ve received nothing but praise from all of our partners.”