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A coffee shop, a seafood restaurant, and a multicultural bistro occupy Harlem storefronts that were once boarded up. According to a sponsored Next City article, they also employ young people and young adults affected by the criminal legal system. That makes a familiar neighborhood scene, people buying coffee or sitting down to eat, part of a job-training effort.
The article describes a broader program for young New Yorkers returning from, or facing incarceration on, Rikers Island. Alongside work in the businesses, it lists mentorship, trauma-informed care, re-entry support, and transitional housing. Those services matter because getting a job is only one part of returning to daily life. How do participants turn their experience in these Harlem businesses into employment afterward?
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