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Friday, January 7, 2011

Receive the Public Safety Projects Award

Yesenia Nieves, Father Jeff Putthoff, Jon, and Anthony receive the Public Safety Projects Award.

On Thursday, October 28, 2010, Hopeworks attended the 2010 Public Safety Awards Dinner given by the DCCB. Hopeworks was presented with the Public Safety Projects Award for its hard work on a street map of Camden. For the past three years Hopeworks has printed a map of Camden using GIS technology, and this is the only map of Camden in print.
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About the y c n y

We do this by enhancing the lives ­of inner-city Camden youth. We expand the learning opportunities available to them, point the way to a future full of hope, and work together to create that future. The heart of our program is technology training, which we provide in­ a safe, respectful, and celebratory atmosphere. We train our youth in state-of-the art computer applications: Web site design, geographic information services (GIS), computer networking and repair, and video.

Through the Hopeworks program, we seek in particular:

  • To reduce the high school dropout rate for African-American and Hispanic youth in Camden, New Jersey.
  • To create hope for the future, good-paying jobs, business development, and educational opportunities for Camden’s young people: specifically for African-American and Hispanic youth between the ages of 17 and 25 who have dropped out of school. Such a mission is essential because, in our city:
    • 8,000 young people have dropped out of high school.
    • At the two public high schools, the high school dropout rate is nearly 70%.
    • 34% of the city’s young people are unemployed.
    • Nearly 50% of the city’s young people live in poverty.