Okay. Seeing, any comments from the bridge line . Okay. And moving forward with agenda item number 9, information item, department of children youth and families dcyf, Youth Workforce Development update and they would like to share the Workforce Services with the council, presentation by maria su director dcyf, city and county of San Francisco. Through the chair, i dont see that the director is here, you may wish to go on to the next agenda item thank you. Moving on, Public Comment, this is general Public Comment, items not in the agenda, each speaker is limited to 3 minutes, if you would like to speak, fill out a Community Card front or make it known that you would like to make a comment, thank you. Is there any general comment from the audience here today . Any on the bridge line . Seeing none, okay. And now we will go back to agenda item number 9, information item, the department of children youth and families dcyf, Youth Workforce Development update. Dcyf would like to share a Work
Welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, in honor of National Disability, employment awareness month, our agenda will be a little unusual in order to accommodate our speakers schedule, we will be moving general Public Comments to the end of our agenda, however, there will still be an opportunity to provide disability employment related comments after the speakers are finished, city hall is accessible to people using wheelchairs and other devices, on the van ness iva ramps, entrances is provided via a wheelchair lift, assistive listening devices are available and the meeting is opened captioned and interpreted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille, ask the staff for any additional assistance. To prevent, the electronic interference with the system and everyones ability to focus on the presentations silence all mobile phones and pdas, your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during the Public Comments and you may complete a speakers card, avail
And i just have one quick question for the last speaker regarding internships. What is your name. Vira. And so my question to you is when you started these Internship Programs was there a model that you were going off of . Or in a way did you just kind of from the ground up. Had is the project search model that started 20 years ago out of Childrens Hospital of cincinnati and so supervisor mar mentioned the alameda county, that they have, and it has been about 9 years since they started terry from the arc has the pg e. And as far as it being a model as far as replicating for the city level, you know, as far as the way that it incorporated and the way that increased the employment and do you feel that is a good model to go off of . I think that it is a great model to go off of and it is an entry point and you you know the people we talked about the fear that hesitantcy about employing the people with disabilities because a lot of people dont have the experience of working with the people
Welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, in honor of National Disability, employment awareness month, our agenda will be a little unusual in order to accommodate our speakers schedule, we will be moving general Public Comments to the end of our agenda, however, there will still be an opportunity to provide disability employment related comments after the speakers are finished, city hall is accessible to people using wheelchairs and other devices, on the van ness iva ramps, entrances is provided via a wheelchair lift, assistive listening devices are available and the meeting is opened captioned and interpreted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille, ask the staff for any additional assistance. To prevent, the electronic interference with the system and everyones ability to focus on the presentations silence all mobile phones and pdas, your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during the Public Comments and you may complete a speakers card, avail
Get involved with this . The project search, is an educational tool for the whole site and the interns involved and it educates them on how to work with the individual with disability and give the interns the opportunity to be immersed in a setting while being with their on site job coach and also starts the dialogue about the people with disabilitied being employed. This is mainly through the inner department, dialogue about how this program has been and how they want to participate in this program. A partnership of the city and county of San Francisco to bring the projects for staoet and county is one way to address the desire of the city of San Francisco to be diverse in the workforce and to use the rule, 115 to the advantage of the citizens of San Francisco and we have a viable pool of qualified work ready candidates that will access, and the circle of support and will continue to facilitate the entry point will be to connect the ability to opportunity and thank you. Thank you. Tha