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LEGISLATIVE  RESOLUTION  commending Hudson Guild on its POWER-UP program
which continues to provide outstanding community  service  by  improving
the  lives  of  the participants in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York
City

WHEREAS, A great community is only as great as those persons and  organ-
izations  that  provide exemplary service, whether through participation
in voluntary programs, through  unique  personal  achievement  in  their
profession  or  other  endeavors,  or  simply through a lifetime of good
citizenship; and
  WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is justly proud to commend Hudson Guild
on its POWER-UP program which continues to provide outstanding community
service by improving the lives of the participants in the Chelsea neigh-
borhood of New York City; and
  WHEREAS, Hudson Guild is a multi-service  community  center  servicing
more than 14,000 individuals who live, work, or go to school in Chelsea,
with a focus on those in need; and
  WHEREAS,  Hudson  Guild's  mission  is to create and sustain a strong,
effective community that acknowledges and responds to  the  achievements
of  its  diverse  members  through  the five main service areas of Adult
Services; Arts; Children and Youth Services; Mental Health Services; and
Community-Building; and
  WHEREAS, Hudson Guild's Children and Youth Programs  serve  youth  and
their  families  by  providing  social  and  emotional support, academic
assistance, awareness of post-secondary school  options  and  employment
experience; and
  WHEREAS,  Hudson  Guild's  POWER-UP program assists youth in achieving
academic, professional,  and  personal  success  by  providing  a  safe,
supportive, and nurturing environment through a variety of teen program-
ming; and
  WHEREAS,  The  POWER-UP  program emphasizes the importance of academic
achievement, self-awareness, social responsibility,  and  setting  goals
for the future aspirations of its participants; and
  WHEREAS,  Hudson Guild honors the achievement of its youth workers and
graduates with a recognition ceremony honoring those  who  have  collec-
tively completed over 3,000 internship hours; and
  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  sense  of  this Legislative Body that those who
enhance the well-being and vitality of their community and have shown  a
long  and  sustained  commitment to excellence certainly have earned the
recognition and applause of all the citizens of this great Empire State;
now, therefore, be it
  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause  in  its  deliberations  to
commend  Hudson Guild on its POWER-UP program which continues to provide
outstanding community service by improving the lives of the participants
in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to Hudson Guild.