Governor Carney Joins Attorney General Denn to Announce Summer and Afterschool Programs

Statement

The following is an excerpt from Governor Carney's remarks on Monday at H. Fletcher Brown Boys and Girls Club for an announcement of more than $900,000 in funding for 16 organizations to provide summer and afterschool programs for teens and youth in economically disadvantaged areas of Delaware:

"Certainly, we know that collaboration and partnership is an important part of making our communities safer, strengthening our communities, and strengthen the economy across our state. And when I think about the problems and challenges that we have here in the state of Delaware, they're all connected. And at the root of those connections are creating stronger families, stronger communities in which those families live, and better educating and supporting our young people so they can be our workforce of tomorrow. We have to commit ourselves to work together in partnership to deal with the real source of those problems. We aren't going to be successful as a state-- we're not going to be successful as a city-- unless we prepare these children to be successful."

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