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Article: Youth empowerment: employing opportunities.(2D Panel)(Chinatown Youth Center's Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program)
- Article from:
- Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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MICHELLE C WU, MODERATOR
INTRODUCTION
CYC (formerly Chinatown Youth Center): MYEEP (Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program) presented a panel of Youth Peer Leaders for "Branching Out the Banyan Tree," the 2005 Chinese American Studies Conference cohosted by the Chinese Historical Society of America and San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department. These youth discussed the history and impact of San Francisco's largest after-school employment program through the MYEEP Collaborative. CYC, serving the Chinese community since 1970, is one of twelve agencies in the collaborative. The youth reviewed the history of the program as ...