SYEP General Information:
2025 Summer Youth Employment Program is happy to announce our application process for young adults is now open. We are accepting applications from March 3rd to May 9th. To download an application click here.
With each application include a copy of the following mandatory documents:
- Birth certificate or US passport
- Green Card or Naturalization Papers
- Social security card
- Original Working Papers Not a Copy
- Picture ID (if over 18)
Applications will not be considered complete nor will they be processed unless all of the above documents are attached to it, even if you have been in the program before.
What is the Ulster County Summer Youth Employment Program?
- The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) has operated within Ulster County for over 50 years. It is designed to provide work experience, work readiness skills, and positive work attitudes in young adults seeking to enter the job force throughout Ulster County.
How does the program work?
- Young adults submit an application.
- And get it to our office, either via mail at 535 Boices Lane Kingston, NY 12401 or physically bring it to our office and come in our public entrance at 521 Boices Lane Kingston, NY.
- There will be a drop box in our office with instructions on leaving an application. A copy machine is available for your use there.
- Drop box hours are daily from 9 am to 5 pm. Staff will only be available Monday and Tuesday for any questions.
- Applications submitted AFTER May 9, 2025 or without the proper documentation will NOT be accepted. Applications will NOT be accepted via fax or email.
- It is also possible to pick up an application from our office.
- Once we receive a completed application, which includes a copy of youth’s birth certificate, social security card, and working papers or if over 18, a picture ID.
- Staff reviews the application and determines eligibility.
How do you know if you are eligible?
- You must be between the ages of 14 and 20
- You must meet income guidelines (include proof of family income with application packet)
- Need assistance finding summer employment
- Must be an Ulster County resident
Once found eligible then a SYEP staff person will call the youth and conduct a Zoom or phone interview. These will start in May.
Youth will be instructed to view two online orientations that are mandatory before getting a job. One is work readiness, the other is a financial literacy workshop.
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Worksites and Partners:
Interested in being a worksite for SYEP? Click here for a worksite request form.
Click here to complete a worksite agreement.
All new employers and/or supervisors need to view an online 45 minute worksite orientation.
Worksites that have participated in the SYEP include:
- Beekman’s Gym
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Kingston and Saugerties
- Bread Alone
- C3 Quest
- Center for Creative Education
- Center for Photography at Woodstock
- DRAW
- Ellenville High School
- Ellenville Housing Authority
- Ellenville Street Department
- Everett Motors
- Found & Fixed
- Gateway Community Industries
- Gardiner Library
- Habitat for Humanity
- Kingston Tires
- People’s Place
- Read & Write Program
- Roberti Automotive
- The COOP Concept
- Ulster BOCES
- Ulster Immigration Defense Network
- Woodstock Playhouse
- YMCA Farm Project
- YMCA of Kingston