NOYN Newsletter

Newark Opportunity Youth Network (NOYN) is New Jersey’s leading advocate of opportunity youth with a body of replicable initiatives that are designed to address youth disconnection. NOYN's work is organized around four key elements of Education, Workforce Development, Policy Advocacy, and Systems Building. 

Read the stories below that display how NOYN’s initiatives are working together to re-engage opportunity youth while drastically changing systems that inhibit their success.

LEAD Class of 2022 graduate Dayanara Rocha-Castillo went from being burnt out and having to repeat freshman year to graduating at just 16 years old. She once thought school would never end, but after transferring to two different high schools before LEAD, she finally found her home---a place where she could not just survive but thrive both academically and non academically. 

You can read her story of transformation here. 



The Newark Youth Workforce Collaborative family tree is adding a new branch—The HUBB Arts & Trauma Center. Since 2013, The HUBB—which stands for “help us become better”— ATC has provided programs involving video production, audio technology, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, which help propel youth into careers in the entertainment, arts and business industries. As a member of the Collaborative The HUBB ATC will work in tandem with other organizations to further establish the school-to-workforce pipeline through workforce development. 

Read more about this initiative here. 

 

LEAD Charter School students are preparing to teach courses at Rutgers University Newark about effective teaching strategies from a student perspective. In preparation, the students met and reviewed passages from activists and scholars such as James Baldwin and Dr. Ann Arnett Ferguson. They also practiced teaching the lesson plans that they constructed for the course. 

Follow the LEAD Charter School and My Brother's Keeper Newark pages to stay updated on what this group of student educators will be teaching.