For many cities, Summer Jobs Connect was the first time youth workforce programs had included financial empowerment strategies; most cities therefore stretched to develop new partnerships and collaborate across agencies. This further led to broader financial empowerment programmatic integrations beyond SYEP.

Most directly, city partners changed their SYEP infrastructures to ensure the sustainability of financial empowerment strategies, meaningfully changing the way SYEP services are delivered. To encourage direct deposit enrollment, cities made changes to the underlying processes that support the SYEP, including application, enrollment, and payroll. They also used technology to support financial empowerment programmatic elements; for example, cities built banking and savings behavioral prompts into their online SYEP application and certification processes.