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Community to Community:
Engaged Research for Thriving Communities
Summer Youth jobs
Preparing local youth for their future
Since 2015, C2C has partnered with the city of Boston to evaluate the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program.
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OUR TEAM
A cross-disciplinary team of changemakers
C2C’s dedicated faculty team conducts impactful research to guide and shape informed policy decisions for societal betterment and progress.
FOCUS AREAS
Targeting local, urban issues that impact our cities
Explore how we’re tackling youth employment, the opioid crisis, housing, and workforce development in Boston and beyond.
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If you’re a policymaker, practitioner, faculty, or curious changemaker, we have resources to help you get connected.
Testimonials
Adam Gamoran
President, William T. Grant Foundation
“Research conducted in partnership with public agencies finds a ready audience for action. Our foundation supports research that yields high profile findings. One example is summer youth employment opportunities in Boston. We had a study by Alicia Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University, showing that investments in summer youth employment payoff for less crime and more educational attainment, and she’s continuing that work in Boston.”
Rashad Cope
Deputy Chief of Worker Empowerment, City of Boston
“Before partnering with Northeastern, anecdotally, we knew a lot of challenges existed for youth to access the program, but it was very difficult to communicate these challenges from a policy standpoint to our administration without data to back it up. We were excited to lean on Northeastern to add credibility to this work and to the challenges that we know existed, so we could really develop a plan to address some of these issues. Now we have recommendations around ways we can centralize some of these processes through a common intake and have a system that serves as a depository of all youth applicants, so we can better see inequities that may exist, and see ways we can really improve the program.”
Sofia Navarro
Executive Director, Oakland Workforce Development Board
“Local government and university partnerships are essential to expanding social equity in our cities. The City of Oakland is fortunate to partner with C2C Northeastern to advance economic and workforce development goals through co-convening aligned stakeholders and building policy solutions that center evidence-based research and community voice. We are inspired by the results C2C has achieved in Boston to expand summer youth employment and we hope to incorporate insights from that work here in Oakland..”
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