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Committee Report Back:

Workforce Investment Community Advisory Committee (WiCAC)

Meeting on Re-entry Populations

October 26th, 2010 Walden House 1885 Mission Street In attendance: WiCAC members 30+ community members OEWD staff WiCAC Co-Chairs: Jodi L. Schwartz Cameron McHenry

Theme of the meeting:

Understanding and identifying the needs of the re-entry community within the workforce system

WiCAC members and meeting attendees broke up into small groups to address these questions:

What is working within the Workforce

System for the re-entry population?

What are trends in the experience folks in

the re-entry population are having as relates to access to workforce

• pportunities?

Outcomes

Members agreed that we need to work in concert with OEWD and the WISF to build understanding of community needs and trends regarding reentry of people from prisons and jails and the experience of what is working within the workforce system and what barriers exist specific to those within the re-entry community.

Community Priorities

Highlight the Employment Non-discrimination Act and

ensure that the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) enforces fair hiring practices that benefit job seekers in the reentry population

Prioritize pre-release employment programs and

resources for individuals while they’re still in custody

Prioritize investment (financial, support and recognition)

in wraparound services that help re-entry individuals

• vercome barriers and connect with life skills/job

readiness training prior to employment placement

Next Steps

Suggestion from WISF on how to

move forward on priorities?

WISF Committees that will work with

us on these priorities?

Next WiCAC meeting

Focus on workforce development

needs of Transition Age Youth

(ages 16-24)

January 2011 –

specific date/time/location TBD

Planning and meeting facilitation to be

coordinated with TAYSF Young Adult Advisory (YAA)

Next WiCAC meeting (con’t)

Meeting format -

Brief History of Youth Workforce Development in San

Francisco

Brief Overview of “DCYF/OEWD Youth Workforce

Development Framework”

Group Discussion – Questions:

• What is the need?
• What are the access points for youth?
• Who is and is not being served under new

framework?

• Recommendations?