Funding Opportunities
Dutchess County Agency Partner Grant Program
Dutchess County Youth Services Grants from NYS OCFS
City of Poughkeepsie Youth Services Grants
Over 150 young people from throughout Dutchess County attended yesterdays Department of Community & Family Services’ (DCFS) Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) Youth Summit, coordinated by the Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and held at the former JCPenney site at the Poughkeepsie Galleria. The SYEP provides qualified students, ages 14 to 20 and whose […]
The Youth Opportunity Union (YOU) and Marist College have announced a new partnership with Spectrum News to train 30 local high school students as video-journalists at no cost to the students. The 5-day Intensive Video-journalism Workshop will be held Monday to Friday, August 22-26, in the Newton Community Room at Christ Episcopal Church in the […]
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, City of Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison and members of the City’s Common Council joined local stakeholders today as demolition of the former YMCA building at 35 Montgomery Street began, the next step in the process of the development of a state-of-the-art Youth Opportunity Union (YOU), which will be built on […]
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On 9/16/21 Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro unveiled a new website, www.the-you.org, which provides County residents with updates about the forthcoming “Youth Opportunity Union,” formerly known to as the Youth Opportunity Center and referred to moving forward as “the YOU,” the state-of-the-art facility that will serve communities throughout the county and be located in the […]