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Teens chart bright futures at Bed-Stuy Family Center
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Laing Sue Rutledge, center, Junior League of Brooklyn President, poses with a few Career Club teens and a parent |
In a section of Brooklyn where the dreams and hopes of a teen can languish, high-risk teenagers are gaining a positive focus and developing a personal strategy to create a successful life for themselves. For a second year, Jordan Margolis, a social worker at the Bed-Stuy Family Center, is conducting a weekly Career Awareness Club in which high-risk teens meet with young professionals. The high-risk teens come from the center's caseload. The career mentors come from the Junior League of Brooklyn.
For 31/2 months last spring, the teens met with the volunteers and staff to explore career choices and education issues.
"We wanted them to gain skills and begin researching their careers," said Laing Sue Rutledge, Junior League of Brooklyn President and Morgan Stanley employee. The teens researched a career path and created a timeline containing the
benchmarks necessary for success including specialized training, summer jobs, internships, high school graduation dates, undergraduate college years and graduate school dates. One timeline showed a second career launched in 2025.
The dreams and hopes that were discovered and researched by the teens included becoming an entertainer, a demolition construction worker, a professional dancer, two lawyers, a web designer, a comedian, a musician, a flight attendant, two singers, a fashion designer and a dance teacher.
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