Impact

• HERE to HERE has coalesced employer voice by partnering with employers to incubate two councils: The HERE to HERE Business Council (now the NYC Jobs CEO Council) and The Bronx Private Industry Council (PIC).
• Participation in these councils offered employers the opportunity to become producers of talent and inform in-school curriculum and training programs.
• Participation also opened opportunities for young people: collectively, the councils have hosted over 900 interns and apprentices through their partnership with HERE to HERE, contributing to a more prepared workforce, better-connected systems of work and learning, and codification of critically needed policy and practice change.
• The work of The HERE to HERE Business Council expanded with the launch of the NYC Jobs CEO Council, an independent nonprofit organization led by 25+ CEOs of NYC Fortune 100 companies. The CEO Council absorbed the HERE to HERE Business Council and will expand work-based learning opportunities to many more NY students. 
• HERE to HERE, through The Bronx PIC and in partnership with Dreamyard, also successfully incubated The Thinkubator, which places young people at the core of solving complex business, organizational, societal, and world challenges, providing participating businesses with innovative solutions
• In 2021 we helped to launch the Bronx Recovery Corps at Lehman College, which connects Lehman students with Bronx employers and community organizations, providing local employers dealing with the economic fallout of the Covid pandemic with the talent they need to recover and thrive.

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For example:

• We currently work with a network of 15 Bronx high schools a growing number of NYC high schools through Careerwise New York (now NYC CEO Jobs Council), CUNY Central, and specific CUNY campuses.
• We partner with the Center for Youth Employment (CYE) and NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to effectively link and match high schools to SYEP summer youth opportunities for students. 
• We host Learning Communities, which gather champion educators from our network to collaboratively address challenges, opportunities, and tools for creating strong work-based learning ecosystems in schools.
• In 2021, we supported the launch of the Bronx Recovery Corps at Lehman College, a new Peace Corps-inspired initiative that enables CUNY students to contribute their talent and lends support to local businesses that have been deeply affected by the Covid crisis. The Bronx Recovery Corps underscores CUNY’s position as an integral piece of NYC’s economic recovery plan and offers a model for leveraging work-study, national service funding, and other potential recovery resources to create opportunities for Lehman, CUNY, and NYC students.

For example:

• We worked with partners to create a developmental framework that advances career readiness, exploration, and work-based learning for all NYC students. In 2019 this framework was adopted by CareerReadyNYC, a city government-led effort to bring public, private, and non-profit stakeholders together to advance career preparation for young New Yorkers.
• Working with a number of partners, we advocate for leveraging the CDOS (Career Development Occupational Studies commencement credential) to enhance and expand work-based learning opportunities for New York high school students.

• Between 2017-2019 we helped facilitate over 2,500 paid work experiences for high school students in The Bronx and NYC. 
• In 2019 each of our 15 Bronx high school partners placed 30% or more of their students in paid summer experiences.
• In 2019, 85 students joined the first cohort of CareerWise New York (now NYC CEO Jobs Council), an apprenticeship model that provides new and needed pathways that lead students to well-paying, in-demand, entry-level jobs. Our first cohort included 86 students across 17 companies and the second cohort of more than 85 students began their seven-week virtual summer training in July 2020. 
• In 2019 we launched The HERE to HERE Student Ambassador Program, which engages high school students to work collaboratively to shape work-based learning experiences, advocate for policies that expand their access to opportunities, and raise awareness of the issues that matter to young people, such as student leadership and advocacy, fighting for Summer Youth Employment Program, and the importance of using asset-based language.
• In 2021, we supported the launch of the Bronx Recovery Corps at Lehman College, a new Peace Corps-inspired initiative that connects Lehman students with Bronx employers and community organizations, offering students with a school- and employer-supported environment where they can build their job experience, grow cross-industry work skills, and explore their interests, all while getting paid and earning academic credit.