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SBY offers hope to unemployed youth
16th of September 2011
Politic365’s recent article, D.C.‘s Underserved Communities Face, Fight Local Unemployment, in NewsOne features Sasha Bruce Youthwork’s newest program, Richardson Youth Center, as a beacon of hope for the District’s unemployed youth.
The article details Sasha Bruce Youthwork as doing our part to raise the unemployment rate (which is stated as 19.3% in Ward 7) by offering barbering skills training and other job-readiness skills programs out of our Richardson Youth Center and Opportunity Knocks/YouthBuild programs. The Richardson Youth Center serves as a “one-stop shop” for troubled youth in DC as it features most of the services offered by Sasha Bruce Youthwork. When a young person stops by the Center, they will be offered a safe place to hang out, group classes, life skills groups, skills trainings, workforce development, sports games and camaraderie with the staff who are always on-hand to meet with youth and lend support.
Politic365’s article mentions SBY’s new barbering school, 54th and Cutz, as one of the workforce development initiatives in the District that works to help more young people find jobs. SBY’s own Troy Dorsey, the supervisor of the barbershop program, is quoted in the article, expressing the importance of young people honing a variety of life skills in order to succeed in today’s job market.
The article wraps up by introducing the fear that workforce development organizations have about potential cuts to federal and city spending that would inhibit the work Sasha Bruce Youthwork and other youth-serving agencies do around the city.
To read the whole NewsOne article, click here.
To donate to SBY’s workforce development initiatives, click here.