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65 <br />6- Youth Need Direct Support <br />•As families feel financial squeeze, more and <br />younger youth head to work <br />•Integrate job training & financial literacy <br />support into other services <br />─Leverage existing strong, trusting <br />relationships <br />─Offer services where youth already are <br />•Strengthen youth "power skills" for work <br />─Writing a professional email <br />─Speaking in front of authority figures <br />─Receiving feedback <br />─Networking <br />•Invest in hopeful, long-term outlook though <br />supportive connections <br />“A lot of the mentees we hire don’t <br />think they’ll make it –a mentee I hired <br />didn’t think she’d make it past 16, 18, <br />21. Why plan financially when I don’t <br />think I'll have a future? Their friends <br />and their families pass away younger. <br />All of my mentees have at least one <br />cousin or friend or classmate who <br />passed away before 20." <br />-Cecilia Chu, Friends for Youth <br />Getting into college or getting a job <br />takes “intrinsic motivation or the <br />continuation of the motivation when <br />you don’t have someone holding your <br />hand all along. It takes teachers or <br />trusted adults continuing to encourage <br />them and check in to help continue the <br />momentum post-graduation or through <br />challenges/distractions at home.” <br />-Didi Engel, Wender Weis Foundation