Expand the number of doorways as well. As glen mentioned earlier, we want to provide Year Round Services which is going to provide closer work with the School District and i have a slide at the end. Were going to have upgrades to the Online System and i have a little preview for you in the next couple of slides on what the new Online Platform will look like. We added the tracking system and we want to add more things to that including an easier log in. The log in was difficult. A post partner and listing and Job Opportunities from other sources. Another good really cool strategy were working on is the california champions. A letter went out to the Mayors Office that went out to the employers urging them to pledge jobs. We have the job challenge thats on the 21st. I have a slide on that. Thats to prime this event and bring employers in thats going to post internship and we can get young people to apply for that. We want to focus on Small Business engagement and were going to do some of
Employment opportunities for young people and we were able to surpass that and provide over 6800. There were advances made last year. One was a new on online tracking system. A system that young people applied to to get access to the opportunities. We introduce doorway opportunities where young people can access the system and get support in terms of applying for jobs and opportunities and starting to expand what as the summer Jobs Initiative into a year round effort so working closer with the School District to provide work base opportunities for those young people during the school year. Im going to turnover to our partners at the united way. Good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. Im matt poland and im the director of united way and along with our partners at the School District and cities and employers across San Francisco. We help manage San Francisco summer jobs plus and im excited to be here today to tell you about cool stuff were doing with summer jobs plus. The first sli
Any announcements . None. Can you call item number one. 140727 hearing to receive informational updates from the Mayors Office of employment and workforce development, department of children, youth, and their families, recreation and parks department, and the San Francisco Unified School District on the status of the summer Jobs Plus Initiative, as well as available opportunities for summer programming at San Francisco rpd sites and 140727 hearing to receive informational updates from the Mayors Office of employment and workforce development, department of children, youth, and their families, recreation and parks department, and the San Francisco Unified School District on the status of the summer Jobs Plus Initiative, as well as available opportunities for summer programming at San Francisco rpd sites and through sfusds Summer School programming. Thank you. Actually, this hearing requested comes specifically last year from commissioner mendoza and this year from commissioner president
Available for those 1424. What direct hires do either Community Based organizations or City Departments do, so hiring you might hire summer counselors or staff for someone up to the age of 24. And finally which of the City Departments can serve as work sites such as youth works. Last year we found that there were 53 City Departments that either funded, operated or served as a work site for our summer programming. This year what were trying to do, in an effort to get information out to young people about the available opportunities is were creating a page on the dcf website. This year it will be an opportunity for young people to find out about the training and employment programs, who is eligible for the programs, what the stop and start dates are and what the application process is and to help move forward, we created a searchable page to help those other city programs funded. Before i move onto the summer jobs plus, do you have any questions about the dcyf strategies . Supervisor nor