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Name of Your Organization:

Brooklyn Emerge

Overview of the Project - Please provide a brief description of the project.

Immigrant youth mental health and happy life skills in a stressful environment. A program where the youth in general and immigrant youth in specific will be given opportunities to be heard with all their family, academic and life problems and suggest practical solutions in a friendly and open environment. Giving them opportunities to be heard in decision making and giving them importance in opinion making. providing Open Mic events and open park therapy programs. Giving them more opportunities for physical activities like gym and sports.

Which of the following issues does your project address?

1. Issue 1 - Addressing Mental Health
2. Issue 2 - Preparation for College and/or Career
3. Issue 3 - Youth Advocacy Promotion

1 Addressing Mental Health

Youth Engagement - Please explain how you will engage youth in the planning and implementation of the project.

We will be involving our 30 plus youth/students in our YLC program to be part of the planning and implementation of this project and will also reach out to other youth and students in the community through Zoom sessions, text engagement groups, Snapchat groups and local networking.

Budget - Your total project budget must equal $20,000 to be placed on the ballot for a youth vote. Please provide a brief description of what the funds would be used for to successfully implement your project. You will also need to download, fill in, and attach a full budget using this template.

A part of the budget will be spent on a professional young project director/coordinator for the program. a part will be used for technology and equipment purchasing, a part will be used for supplies and materials for the project and a portion will be used for advertising and promoting the program in the area.

Timeline- Please describe the timeline for the implementation and completion of the project. All work for this project must be completed by June 30, 2021, which is the end of the city’s fiscal year and the deadline for the funds to be spent.

The program will be two times a week for few hours and will start on March 1st and will complete on June 30th 2021.

Project Activity Alignment - How does your project align with at least one of the following topics:

1. Leadership skills development: organizing & advocacy trainings
2. Stewardship of public spaces: public parks, transportation, etc.
3. Youth and student engagement
4. Civic education and advocacy
5. Community outreach involving residents that have been historically underrepresented in or underserved by city government and its processes

The project will focus on involving youth of color and immigrant youth that have been historically underrepresented and underserved by the government and its processes.

What is your organization's area of focus?

1. Children and youth related
2. Advocacy and organizing
3. Arts and culture
4. Civic engagement
5. Education and literacy
6. Emergency management and disaster response
7. Employment and workforce development
8. Environment and sustainability
9. Faith-based
10. Food access
11. Health and medicine
12. Homelessness and/or affordable housing
13. Human rights
14. Human services
15. Immigrants and/or refugees
16. Justice related
17. Legal services
18. People with disabilities
19. Senior services
20. Women's issues

Advocacy and organizing with immigrant community empowerment, Civic engagement and human services.

Affirmations - Type \"YES\" below each statement to affirm that you are eligible to appear on the ballot for this process.

I confirm that my organization will be registered in the NYC Payee Information Portal and in PassPort, NYC’s online procurement system, in order to receive funding from the City of New York.

Yes

I confirm that my organization is able to front the costs of implementing this project. Organizations will be paid based on deliverables. 

Yes

Completion of Deliverables: I understand all deliverables must be completed by June 30th, 2021.

Yes

I understand a condition of funding includes submission of a final report upon project completion, and participating in a debrief session with the CEC.

Yes