Roughly 3,000 Boston teens have found employment this summer with more than 200 community organizations through the city’s Department of Youth Engagement and Employment (DYEE) and its SuccessLink online registration tool.

SuccessLink, which serves as a replacement for the Boston Youth Fund’s HOPELINE, registered over 7,000 city teens this year. The online portal serves as a link to summer employment opportunities and to other city services and scholarship possibilities.

Shari Davis, the executive director of DYEE, said that the city will spend about $4 million this year on summer employment for teenagers. The biggest chunk of teens citywide live in Dorchester and the neighborhood is also home to the biggest concentration of organizations that have placed the teens in jobs.

“The employment program has been around for a long time and we have a very strong group partners,” said Davis. “We saw some new partnerships this year which is phenomenal, and we are always asking the young people for feedback .

Breath of Life Dorchester (BOLD) Teens is one of the community- based programs in Dorchester that is hosting teen workers this summer. The Codman Square-based program is overseen by Rev. Dr. Bill Loesch, who founded the program’s predecessor, Teens Against Tobacco, 25 years ago.

Though the name has changed, the core of the program’s message remains the same: improving the overall health of Codman Square and Dorchester residents. “BOLD Teens are going after the tobacco industry, not the smoker. It’s harder, but we can make more of an impact,” Loesch said. “We are trying to get all private housing in Dorchester that has more than two families to go smoke-free, which would be historic.”

BOLD Teen Andrue Winn, 16, hopes the work he does with the group will in time make a palpable impact on his neighborhood. “I’ve been to a lot of homes here where people smoke inside every day, where they eat McDonalds every day, and it’s very unhealthy. It may not be this year, and it may not be next year, but eventually I hope to see the work the BOLD Teens have done help push smoke-free housing through,” said Winn.

The BOLD Teens’ seven-week summer program’s project include petitioning for their proposed smoke-free private housing initiative, running the Codman Square Farmers Market each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and free movie nights each Friday at Dr. Loesch Family Park.

Naomi Robinson, 18, is working as a BOLD Teen for her third summer. She says being able to interact with active community members and businesses is the biggest advantage of working with the organization. “I like it because you get to meet a lot of people, especially people in the community who are involved,” she said. “I get to see the different business that come to Codman Square Farmers market each week.”

Medhi Islam, 16, another BOLD Teen, sees the Codman Square Farmers market as an opportunity to both foster community cohesiveness and help fill the dearth of fresh food available in the area. “There are a lot of convenience stores and fast food places, and it’s hard for people to get fresh foods,” he said. “As people come we have fliers and petitions that talk about how we can build a safer and healthier community with less smoking and healthier food, and it also gives people a place to come together and be safe.”

The All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL), founded in 1983 and based in Fields Corner, is another of DYEE’s employment partners. Teens work as coaches and counselors for the variety of sports programs, including baseball and basketball tutoring programs that the league offers.

Xavier Savage, 19, who worked as a coach at ADSL through DYEE last summer, now works as the program director. A Lower Mills native, Savage has been going to ADSL since he was very young and enjoys the chance to experience the organization from the other end.

“I love working with kids, and I love sports,” he said. “It’s a great way to help and stay active in your community. It’s an underutilized resource, but it’s a great place to be and we have a lot of great programs, a lot of great people here willing to help and mentor.”

At College Bound Dorchester, teens also get the chance to works with kids through their early education summer program, assisting teachers with activities as well as providing general support. Gianni Hill, 17, is on her fourth summer working at College Bound, and as a result of her experience hopes to pursue an education in teaching.

“I love working with kids. My experience over the past four summers has been great, and it has made me want to study a major in counseling and teaching younger kids,” she said.

Travis Gendron, a development communications associate at College Bound, stresses the importance of having teens like Gianni working at the program over the summer.

“We are really grateful that DYEE allows us to have the support of people like Gianni,” he said, “because it’s really important for our students and our teachers to have that extra help. They bring a really positive force to our classrooms.”