Newark YMCA Provides Alternatives For Adjudicated Youth with ERC Program

By Alexandra Hill

Published November 22, 2019 at 6:30 PM EST

The Newark YMCA is working to give adjudicated youth in Hudson County an alternative to prison. It's called the succeed program's evening reporting center, where kids ages 13 to 17 receive peer to peer mentoring services as well as case management, and life skills workshops, between the hours of 3-9pm Monday through Saturday. WBGO's Alexandra Hill recently sat down with Michael Bright President and CEO of the Newark YMCA, the programs coordinator Shannell Toomer, and 19 year old program graduate Isaiah Rosario... to talk about how the program is changing the trajectory of the lives of so many at risk youth.

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Alexandra Hill

Alexandra Hill began her work with WBGO in June of 2012 in the news department. A graduate of the Rutgers Newark journalism program, Alexandra was also a student of WBGO News Director Doug Doyle. Alexandra has since become the lead general assignment reporter, afternoon news anchor, and producer of the award winning live call in show Newark Today. Since working for WBGO Alexandra has covered politics in and around Newark including the 2014 mayoral campaign of Mayor Ras Baraka as well as the senate campaigns of former Newark Mayor and now U.S. Senator Cory Booker in both 2013 and 2014. Alexandra also covers a host of human-interest stories, and has been recognized by the New York Association Of Black Journalists for her piece entitled Sheltering Newark’s Homeless.

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