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YouthBuild Newark (YBN) leads Newark Opportunity Youth Network's (NOYN's) workforce development efforts and partners with LEAD Charter School, NOYN's education initiative, to help young people earn their GEDs and on-the-job experience. YouthBuild Newark offers young people - ages 16-24 years old - an opportunity to earn an HSE (high school equivalency diploma) while gaining on-the-job training for

in-demand careers. Through the YouthBuild process, young people can chart a new path to success, surrounded by a supportive community committed to developing skilled leaders for the local workforce.

05/20/2026

Back to the NJ statehouse this week.

Our Youth Policy Council is heading back to Trenton to tour the building, meet with legislators, and learn how state government works up close. The Youth Policy Council brings together elected youth representatives, staff, and program leadership to shape the direction of our policy work together.

Check out these highlights from our last visit!

05/11/2026

"The only thing I can't do is tell myself I can't." 💬
Meet Shandra Lora: Newark EMS Corps graduate, future firefighter, and proof that real strength is built one quiet decision at a time 💪

After years of feeling a step behind, Shandra found her footing through mentorship, hands-on training, and a community that wanted her to succeed.

Read Shandra's full Story of Transformation 🔗 (LINK IN BIO) www.youthbuildnewarknj.org/transformation/for-the-smaller-me

Learn more about how YouthBuild Newark and Newark EMS Corps are connecting young people to in-demand careers: https://newarkemscorps.org/

04/30/2026

What does it actually take to build a city? Our Construction CTE students found out.

At Prudential Global Investment Management (PGIM)'s active construction site in West New York, students explored how real estate developments come to life, from the planning to the day-to-day craft of construction. Seeing a major project up close and hearing from the professionals making it happen turns abstract career talk into a clear picture of what's possible. 🏗️

Thank you to PGIM for opening your worksite during # NationalApprenticeshipWeek.

03/31/2026

YouthBuild has always been built on the belief that young people, given the right support, can transform themselves and their communities. This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating the women who make that belief real.

Jasmine Joseph-Forman, Chief Program Officer at NOYN, is one of those women. She carries her grandmothers’ quiet strength, her aunt’s unapologetic confidence, and her mother’s legacy of service into this work every day.

“These are the women whose shoulders I stand on, only hoping to build the same legacy for my daughter and generations after her.”

To every young woman in YouthBuild: she sees you.
“You are worthy. You don’t have to become someone else to succeed. You just have to refine who you already are.”

03/26/2026

Graduation day! 🎓

Congratulations Newark EMS Corps Cohort 3 🎉

Today we celebrate 18 young people who came into this program carrying real lives, real responsibilities, and real doubt. They pushed through and are now certified emergency medical technicians ready to serve the city they grew up in.

"If you put in the hard work, you get a great outcome — and we all did. All 18 of us."
— Rasheena Mitchell

"I owe it to my city. This is where I want to be."
— Micaiah Benson-Thomas

"Within these five months, this program showed me that I am capable. That's something I don't think I've ever felt before."
— Shandra Lora

These graduates are headed to emergency rooms, ambulances, paramedic programs, nursing schools, and labor and delivery wards. They are going everywhere, and they are taking Newark with them.

Congratulations to Asia Oxner, Zaire Jefferson, Shandra Lora, Alex Barzey, Zanayah Gilmore, Gabriel Sousa, Tamil Henderson, Denyzha Hunter, Rayania Muhammad, Rakayah Boykin, Rasheena Mitchell, Grant Mulligan, Jordan Carambot, Alkadirah Owens, Takyah Cook, Aleemia Robinson, Micaiah Benson-Thomas, and Ahjenae Williams.

You earned this ⚕️🚨👏

03/23/2026

They came through YouthBuild. Now they are wiring Newark's future. 💙🔌

Matthew, Xiomara, Zacore, and Taj are YouthBuild Newark alumni enrolled in RampUp America's fiber optics training program, putting the hands-on skills they built here to work in one of the most in-demand trades in the country. For each of them, they've seen themselves grow and transform how they see their futures.

"Every day you wake up, you got a choice." — Zacore

Read their full story (LINK IN BIO)
🔗 www.youthbuildnewarknj.org/transformation/fiber-optics-story-of-transformation

03/16/2026

Last week, students in our YouthBuild Newark Construction Pathway program visited NJ TRANSIT for the Future in Motion High School Tours, putting a new destination on the map for their career paths.

They toured the facility, heard directly from the people who keep NJ Transit running day-to-day, and learned about the range of roles involved in operating and maintaining a transit system.

The most exciting highlight was getting behind the controls of a train simulator!
Thank you to NJ Transit for hosting this event!

03/09/2026

𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗵

At just 22 years old, Diane Nash was leading the Nashville sit-ins and coordinating strategy for the Freedom Rides during the Civil Rights Movement. z
Born in Chicago in 1938, Nash transferred to Fisk University in Nashville where she experienced Jim Crow segregation for the first time. She refused to accept these conditions and instead took action.

Nash attended nonviolent resistance workshops and quickly emerging as a leader in the Nashville Student Central Committee. The Nashville sit-ins she helped organize became the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters in the South. When violence threatened to end the Freedom Rides in 1961, Nash coordinated their continuation from Nashville.

In 1960, Nash was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which remained independent of adult organizations and added a fresh youth voice to the movement.

Today, when young people facilitate community conversations, analyze data, and advocate for policy change, they're walking the path Diane Nash helped create.

Nash's legacy shows that youth voice is essential for creating lasting change, and young people don't need to wait for permission to lead.

03/03/2026

March is Women's History Month and we are excited to celebrate the leaders and changemakers making history from then to now!

We are grateful for the women who have improved their communities and turned advocacy into action.
And we are proud of the women in our community continuing that legacy today: staff members fostering growth, alumni creating solutions in their communities, and young women using their voices to drive policy change.

We honor the foundation women have built and the future we're creating together.

02/10/2026

LEAD students visited Kean University for the annual Human Rights Institute at Kean University's MLK Day of Service conference, exploring what it means to carry forward Dr. King's legacy of community engagement.

The annual Day of Service conference, co-organized by Engage NJ and the NJ Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission, brought together young people from across New Jersey to discuss how they can lead change in their communities.

Our students showed up ready to learn, connect, and take action.

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571 Central Avenue, Floor 2
Newark, NJ
07107

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+19732970592

Website

http://www.youthbuildnewarknj.org/

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