Summer where jewish people can work. Jesse, lets just jump right in and talk about with the jps summer internship is. So the Summer Internship Program has been run by jvs for 34 years and its an opportunity for young, jewish undergraduate College Students to have an internship in a jewish Nonprofit Organization in the bay area. Wonderful. How long has the tone Internship Program been functioning . First 34 years we have been going. This program has run every summer for the last 34 years and has really changed a lot. And a moment were going to ask tova about her particular experience, but can you let us know how many imprints interns are with you this summer and how the program structuredsote from s franeast bay, the south marin county and they can go to College Anywhere in the united states. But its designed for people who have grown up here. This year we have 27 interns and we are at 24 different Nonprofit Organizations. So mostly they are each at different organizations. We have orga
Currently because of a family matter, hopefully just temporarily retired and however, i am still an officer, and i am first vice chair of the San Francisco Mayors Committee on the employment with persons with disability and i also have a special connection with San Francisco and with your rule 115 program. And in 1981 or 82, i was working for the Human Resources designing and implementing a grant funded special hiring program for people with disabilities and we had gotten a grant from the state Personnel Board to do that and i got a call from my former colleagues at the former at the time, colleagues, at the San Francisco Mayors Committee, and saying that they were having a very, very hard time getting rule 34, passed and getting the attention and getting the consideration of the board of supervisors. They asked me, since i had had the experience, doing it, and a similar program, and then they knew who i was, they asked if i would please come up and go to a subcommittee meeting. The da
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 with disabilities it is a great model because the interns get to try the city out and the city gets to try the interns out and thes a win win. The city gets to see folks in the Work Environment before they make that hire and so it is an opportunity to educate the Department Heads to share that knowledge with other Department Heads to come to see the intern that i have and also gives an opportunity for the city to assess the folks that are actually interning who might be applying for that 115, rule, posit
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 with disabilities it is a great model because the interns get to try the city out and the city gets to try the interns out and thes a win win. The city gets to see folks in the Work Environment before they make that hire and so it is an opportunity to educate the Department Heads to share that knowledge with other Department Heads to come to see the intern that i have and also gives an op
Continue to facilitate the entry point will be to connect the ability to opportunity and thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys so much. Questions . From the Council Members . We can start with cochair supanich. This question is actually for the woman sited behind mark, you mentioned the ticket to work program and i am not completely familiar with that, could we get the information sent to our Council Clerk . Sure. Thank you. 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 replica