Making Sure it All Measures Up

Recently, the communications team was given the opportunity to step outside of the office and see what the folks over in Weights and Measures do on a daily basis. We loaded up the cars and drove to the newly renovated section of Columbia Heights. There, we went to Target and did a price-check. Price-checking is [...]

Benefits of Bringing Your Lunch

Fruit is always a great item to include in a bagged lunch. Some people enjoy bringing $10 or so every single day to pick up, order, or take out a lunch. Partially because the food is good, or maybe they’re just too lazy to make their own lunch at home.  As growing teens and young [...]

Spending that First Paycheck

The summer youth have been working hard! Just recently they were given their first paychecks of about $30 for their attendance at the orientation into the summer program. The thought of money being given to the youth for their work pleased many of them. With the sensational feeling of being paid, many youth have thought [...]

Payday! Helpful Spending Tips

The Summer youth are pretty pleased about getting their first paycheck recently. The check was for about two days pay. This should give us all motivation to keep working hard. With each payday, the youth employees will understand how nice it feels to earn a reward or compensation for the work they do. But, with [...]

Do You Know How to Use Your Debit Card?

This year the summer youth program coordinators took a new approach with paying summer youth. Every two weeks, youth will receive their earnings on debit cards. Using debit cards allows the youth the opportunity to spend money in more places. What is a debit card? A debit card provides an alternative payment method to cash [...]

The Importance of Time Management

The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) has decided to branch out and take part in helping better prepare the future of D.C.’s youth through the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) ’09. The program allows about 83 different divisions of DCRA/in the building. These youth employees are gaining and hoping to gain more knowledge [...]

DCRA Summer Youth Program Kicks Off!

Welcome to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ new blog centered all around the 2009 District Summer Youth Employment Program.  Here at Building Blocks, we hope to chronicle all of the events and happenings at DCRA as 83  of the city’s finest  young people gain some of the skills necessary to prepare them for the working world. [...]