Congratulations, Youth Mentoring Program (YMP) participants!

The Youth Mentoring Program (YMP) provides a six-week summer employment opportunity for high school-age children of 1199SEIU members at participating hospitals and nursing homes. The YMP supports youth in developing fundamental life skills, professional competencies and career/education opportunities, all while establishing a future workforce of young professionals.

To commemorate the final week of YMP this summer, the 1199SEIU Child Care Corporation hosted its annual YMP Closing Ceremony on Thursday, August 15, in the Martin Luther King Auditorium at our 1199SEIU Manhattan headquarters.

Pictured from left to right is Vanessa Santiago, Vice President of the 1199SEIU Child Care Corporation, Jose Mejia Martinez, Senior Volunteer Experience Assistant at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), and Rossmery Dais, President of the 1199SEIU Child Care Corporation. They are joined by our YMP participants who worked at SIUH.

This year’s ceremony honored the work of Jose Mejia Martinez, Senior Volunteer Experience Assistant at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH). Mr. Martinez oversaw 13 YMP participants working in a wide variety of departments including the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), Pharmacy and Clinical Engineering. This is the third year that the YMP team has worked with Mr. Martinez, who has been an amazing advocate for our youth. Mr. Martinez is one of 16 site contacts who collectively onboarded 178 YMP participants at 18 institutions across all five boroughs.

Congratulations to our YMP participants!