YUTE Annual Report 2014

All Dedicated
to Empowering
At-risk Youth
Executive Director Alicia Glasgow Gentles (3rd left) hosts the weekly YUTE team meeting at the Life Yard
Community Garden/Restaurant in Fleet Street, Downtown Kingston. With her, from left, are Roger Graham,
Sharlene Brooks, Cadeisha Campbell, Margaret Denton and Kirk Rhoden.
ROGER
GRAHAM
MBA, BSc.
Programme
Manager
Passionate About Affecting
Positive Change in
Marginalised Communities
As the Programme Manager
of YUTE my position has
given me the opportunity to
direct and coordinate YUTE’s
work by designing and
managing projects focused on
youth employability, livelihood
and economic strengthening,
education, mentorship and
youth development. I am
passionate about seeing and
affecting positive change in
Jamaican communities,
especially through the
engagement of young
people living within
marginalised communities.
I wholeheartedly believe that
there is great untapped
potential among our youth to
create an environment
where young people in
underserved communities
can not only thrive, but
develop into the future
leaders of our country.
BROOKS
SHARLENE
DIP. SOCIAL SERVICES
Community
Engagement Officer
Creating Opportunities
for the Vulnerable:
Not a Job But a Way of Life
As a Community Engagement
Officer, I work alongside
youth in communities to
help build relationships
with key people and
organisations, and to
identify common concerns.
At YUTE, I assist in creating
opportunities for unattached
young people from vulnerable
and underserved communities
to learn new skills, which
will allow them to be
employable.
YUTE is in the business of
changing lives and fostering
social inclusion and equality.
Working with at-risk youth
is a passion of mine; it does
not feel like a job, but more
like a way of life.
CADEISHA
CAMPBELL
DIP. BUS ADMIN
Administrative Assistant
and Accounting Clerk
Ensuring YUTE Runs
Smoothly: Proud to See
Others Like Her Succeed &
Overcome
I am an assiduous professional,
likened to a rubber tree: I am
flexible and resilient. I live in a
community plagued by
poverty and I was once told
that I would never amount to
anything.
I have proven my naysayers
wrong, earning a Diploma in
Business Administration
from HEART NTA. As the
Administrative Assistant/
Accounting Clerk at YUTE Ltd,
I ensure that the organisation
runs smoothly and effectively.
My work is very critical
because it is the heart of the
organisation.
I look forward to work every
day, to see the opportunities
being created for the young
men and women of this
country. I am proud to see
others, like myself, succeed
and overcome.
MARGARET
DENTON
Mentorship, Counseling
and Placement Officer
Using Mentoring to Help
Create Positive Balance in
the Lives of Young Persons
Throughout my life I have
experienced the harshness
of being brought up as an
orphan. As the Mentorship,
Counseling and Placement
Officer at YUTE, it is
critical that I provide
mentorship training and
proper management of
relationships.
I think my job is important
as through this medium I
can help to create a
balance in the lives of
young persons.
I enjoy doing this type of
work as it gives me great
pleasure when someone
has achieved his/her
fullest potential, which
reflects in society.
KIRK
RHODEN
Community
Engagement Officer
Helping to Provide
Vital Second Chances
in Academics
As a Community Engagement
Officer with YUTE, my
role is to recruit for and
manage participant
relations with more than
100 students enrolled in
the General Construction
Programme dubbed
YUTE Build 2.
My goal is to help create
literacy and vocational
training opportunities for
unattached youths who
may have dropped out of
the traditional school
system and need a
second chance to
become productive
citizens of our country.
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