City Year provides a powerful meeting ground for young people from all walks of life. My neighborhood is black. In the classroom, it's blacks on one side, whites on the other. Click here to view demographics. Spending 40 hours a week in diverse teams of ten, corps members achieve computer literacy, practice public speaking and effective communication, conflict resolution, decision making, evaluation and teamwork.
Active citizenship gets in the blood of City Year participants.
City Year seeks to engage people in a lifetime commitment to service. Working as children's librarians, school teachers, counselors, health workers, park rangers, doctors and lawyers, or attending 2 and 4 year colleges after City Year, corps members continue active lives of engaged citizenship. Corps members must adhere to strict standards of professional conduct, uniform dress, punctuality, attendance, service excellence, courtesy, self-evaluation and physical training. Young people vie for 1,000 spots in the City Year corps. Well, sir, I think it means we are not ready to die yet.