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According to Maria Dominguez Gray, Deputy Director of PBHA, cuts to the Boston Youth Fund (BYF) will have a large impact on the association’s employment of high school students in the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The program consists of 12 student-run camps that provide classroom experience and field trips to Boston and Cambridge Youth...
...usually hires 90-100 high school students to serve as junior counselors in its camps. BYF funds about $56,000 in salary for these counselors, according to Gray, and losing that funding would possibly force the program to drop roughly half of its junior counselor staff...
Under the proposed budget plan, the reduction in counselors could also result in an up to 50 percent reduction in the total size of the SUP program...
Aside from the BYF, which would be cut from $9 million to zero under the new budget proposal, other youth-oriented programs may be trimmed as well. The Department of Public Health Youth Violence Prevention Program would be reduced from $3.5 million dollars to zero, and the Shannon Anti-gang Violence Program would be cut from $13 million to zero. Collectively, the cutbacks to youth programs would total about $25.5 million...
These cuts will have a direct impact on PBHA’s funding. The association is slated to lose a $4000 grant from the Department of Public Health Youth Violence Prevention Program. It would also receive a reduced grant from the After-School and Out-of-School programs. The grant’s value would fall from...