Center for Youth Employment

The Center for Youth Employment (CYE) serves to expand, improve, and align publicly funded programs that help young New Yorkers build skills, gain experience, explore potential career paths, and prepare for success in the world of work. In partnership with stakeholders in City government, the private sector, philanthropy, and the nonprofit community, CYE provides subject matter expertise, capacity, and resource support within New York City's career readiness ecosystem. CYE works with partners to coordinate, expand, and improve classroom education, career exploration, work readiness, and personal development services so that young New Yorkers can access the tools they need to compete in the 21st century job market and build the lives they want.

Announced by in December 2023, the Action Plan for Young Adult Career Success outlines goals and strategies to support the career readiness and successful labor market entry of youth and young adults in New York City. The city's three largest youth-serving institutions: the NYC Public Schools (NYCPS), City University of New York (CUNY), NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), in partnership with the Office of Talent and Workforce Development (NYC Talent), collectively developed this strategic action plan to guide New York City's efforts to ensure that all its young people reach adulthood well-prepared for career success. Five goals were developed through the Action Plan:

Expand career-connected learning at every stage of a young person's journey, including career-contextualized academics and advising, career exploration, career preparation and training, work-based learning, internships, and apprenticeships.
Early interventions to ensure youth and young adults remain connected to career pathways and are supported during transitions from school to postsecondary and work.
Re-engage young people who are now out of school and out of work through targeted outreach, programs, and services.
Improve data collection and analytics to support stronger transitions, promote continuous improvement, and ensure that collective efforts address historic educational and employment disparities.
Implement a coherent and comprehensive strategy to improve and expand employer engagement to help develop talent, ensure access to meaningful career-connected learning experiences, and connections to full-time employment.