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Who is CP-NY? - Participants
Our Commitment to Diversity
CPNY offers teens from each of the five boroughs the opportunity to join City at Peace. It is our goal to include youth who represent a diverse range of experiences, lifestyles and backgrounds.
• They can come from two-parent families, one-parent families and no-parent institutions.
• They can come from public schools, private schools, arts schools, religious schools and the streets.
• They can come from homes of every size in the city.
• They can live in shelters, foster homes, town homes, apartments, single-family houses and mansions.
• They can be male and female. They can be straight A students, B students, C students, D students and
dropouts.
• They can attend special education classes, magnet programs, vocational education classes and gifted and
talented programs.
• They can be gay, lesbian, heterosexual, bisexual, transgender and transsexual youth.
• They can be sexually active and not.
• They can be beautiful, ugly and every look in between.
• They can come from poor, working class, middle class and upper class families.
• They can be physically, mentally, or emotionally handicapped and physically, mentally, or emotionally healthy.
• They can work full-time jobs, part-time jobs, or not at all.
• They can be African, African-American, Caucasian, Latino, Latino-American, Asian, Asian-American, Native
American, Arab, Arab-American, Jewish, Muslim, bi-racial, multi-racial, multi-ethnic and more.
• They will be 13 to 19 years old.
• The only thing they will have in common is that they will be teenagers, adolescents, young people, youth.
If you are age 13-19 and are interested
in participating in the city at peace program
contact us at (212) 924-9204
or nyc@cpnational.org