Posted on July 20, 2023
To support the new Associate Vice President, Program Operations who will oversee the expansion of their Children’s Education Program, including their Social-Emotional Learning pilot program, to help address critical learning gaps in literacy, math, and social-emotional learning skills among public school elementary students due to school time that was lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. With weekly individualized support from trained New York Cares volunteers, students will, over the course of the school year, improve their literacy and math skills, and their knowledge of social-emotional learning skills. In the coming academic year, they anticipate serving 2,050 students at under-resourced schools City-wide. Students will increase their knowledge and application of literacy, math, and social emotional skills, as demonstrated via program surveys by students and tutors, program attendance, and school grades and assessments. New York Cares is the City’s largest volunteer management organization, mobilizing nearly 50,000 caring New Yorkers in volunteer service projects each year so as to better meet pressing community needs.