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Jamaica will be the national starting point for an urban youth employment and job training program run by Starbucks. The coffee giant’s Opportunity Youth program will be run out of a new store that opened Tuesday on Sutphin Boulevard across the street from the state civil courthouse. Starbucks has teamed with two nonprofits — Queens Community House and the Jamaica YMCA’s Y Roads Center program — to work on-site in the store with young adults between the ages of 16 and 25 who are not in school and not employed. Rodney Hines, the director of community investments who came out from Starbucks’ Seattle headquarters, said the program eventually will be expanded to places like Ferguson, Mo., Chicago, Phoenix and others. “We asked ourselves ‘How do we take what we know about business development, what we know about community?’ How do we take that and bring it to life in Jamaica? “We know that in New York City one in five young people is distressed,” Hines added. “Some of you here are doing wonderful things to work on that, and we wanted to be a part of it.” The initial goal is to reach 10,000 young adults, with the long-term aim of 100,000. Hines admitted he was a bit nervous about the Jamaica launch up until Monday night. “It represents so much of what we want to do with this initiative,” he said. But Gary Laermer, senior vice president and chief development officer of the YMCA of Greater New York, and Ben Thomases, executive director of Queens Community House, were optimistic on Monday.
“The Y is in the business of opportunities for fulfilment,” Laermer said. “Everybody who walks through our door wants to walk down a different road; they just don’t know where to find it ... We consider this today to be the first step, not the last.” Thomases said this initiative will only help the group strengthen its ties within the community. Speaking after the ceremony, Borough President Melinda Katz said she learned about Starbucks’ intent long after she unveiled her office’s Jamaica Now redevelopment initiative last April. But she said it is exactly the kind of commercial and community investment Borough Hall has been focusing on attracting to the area. “This is a sign of what businesses, developers, people who invest millions of dollars, see in terms of opportunities here,” Katz said. “And remember, they’re starting the program here in Queens.” Hines said Starbucks, as it always does, scouted the area extensively before committing to a lease at 89-00 Sutphin Blvd., a necessity to make sure the store and the youth outreach program remain in operation. “We surveyed [vehicle] traffic patterns, pedestrian traffic,” Hines said. “We looked at the location of the courthouse — across the street; and the supermarket — next door. We have two goals: deliver community service and keep the store [economically] viable.” Katz, with an extensive background in real estate and land use in both her government and private sector careers, told Starbucks officials while she loves the youth program, stores without it also are more than welcome. “And I’ve got 10 sites for you,” she said. Q