CONCLUSION

This is a pivotal time for our youth and meeting their needs, both now and in service of their future, requires a coordinated investment that centers around the way young people conceptualize their future: through experiences.70 Meaningful mentoring connections between generations of New Yorkers, backed by funding, the weight of public policy and integrated partnerships, puts youth and their futures at the center.

By crafting career-based mentoring experiences, rooted in Positive Youth Development with a focus on equity and guided by the needs of young people, we can begin to build a web of support for our youth that leverages the tremendous human capital in our City to bridge divides.

Through scaling mentoring relationships with the long-term support of our City’s biggest, most profitable industries, we can bring together experts across sectors to safeguard our NYC youth’s greatest strength: their potential and all that they can achieve when it is ignited.

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