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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Yeah. Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, there's a couple of things I would say in response, I mean, we spent so much time pouring our energy into the youth development space, into young people directly. We want to make sure that they have mentors. We want to make sure they're in safe spaces. We want to make sure they're in spaces that they can define to reflect their culture and their voice as you will. Um, but I also think we don't spend enough time in getting in my case, uh, uh, eventual employers ready for young people, right? So it's like young people ready for the world of work, but we also have to get the world of work ready for young people. And I think we don't spend enough time on that side. And so I think in many ways, why I keep talking about like the influence to work in our markets is we can have that employer ready for you conversation at the 2.0 level, because we're all kind of familiar with each other moving forward.
Speaker 0 00:00:53 So I think that's one. So I think you have to spend some time there. It's not just prepare the young person and then set them go forth in the wild and hope they land. We have to really be thoughtful on how do you get organizations ready to receive them? So one of the things we're doing is convening the HR, hiring partners at, uh, companies to think about how is it that we need to think about young people differently. We have a tremendous partnership with a group called one 10, and they're looking to do a million jobs in 10 years for non-degree having black youth, because I think the proxy of the undergrad graduate, whatever degree, again, I don't want to poo poo that I've gone to school. I recognize it as a, as a real avenue, but it can't be a knockout rule for the talent.
Speaker 0 00:01:40 Many of our young people have. And so we've got to think about competency-based learning other ways and in, in a kind of unique and innovative ways in which young people acquire skills. And then we've got to change the mindset of hiring folk who simply hire in their own image or who look at it as a proxy. You went to this school or that school as competence and skill. And we know that's not true. And so to your point around, well, we're trying to organize an ecosystem of leaders and young people who are putting their arms around each other, because I would argue young people have something to say as well as adults in this space. And you know, that's why I keep saying, you know, one of our proxies is working with like-minded.
