SUNSET PARK — Teens and young adults will have a chance to learn about jobs and academic opportunities Wednesday as dozens of local and citywide groups gather to speak to the community’s “underserved youth population.”
The neighborhood’s first “Youth Connect” will focus on job training, internships, placement assistance and academic opportunities for people ages 14 to 24, with music from Mister Sunday and light refreshments on hand.
The event, hosted on Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Industry City, located at 274 36th St., seeks “to bring the large underserved youth population of the district together with the large and growing job sector in the community,” according to a statement from Community Board 7, which is hosting the event.
Through Youth Connect, CB7 hoped to address “an existing community need to connect local youth to information and opportunities,” said Leah Hebert, vice chairwoman of CB7’s Youth and Early Development Committee, which hopes to make it an annual event.
Several local organizations, colleges and city agencies have signed up for Youth Connect, including the FDNY, the NYPD, Industry City, Southwest Brooklyn Industry Development Corporation, the Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park YMCA, and colleges like Medgar Evers and Kingsborough Community College, CB7 said.
