Good Morning! Rosanne Foust (she/her), SAMCEDA.

Hi all, Bill Widmer, Councilman, Atherton

Kris Stadelman, NOVAworks

Good Morning! Mike Wentworth, San Mateo County ISD

Pat Richards Business Liaison with NOVAworks

Cindy Stahl, NOVAworks

Good morning - Larisa Ocañada, SAMCEDA

Good morning! Heather Cleary, Peninsula Family Service

Good morning! Rachael Londer (she/her) with the County of San Mateo's Office of Sustainability.

Good morning! Hilary Papendick (she/her), County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability

Good morning Keith Severson Graniterock

John Nibbelin (he/him), Office of the County Counsel

Gisele Darden

Good morning, Connie Juarez-Diroll, San Mateo County Legislative Officer.

Good Morning, Daina Lujan, SSFUSD

Good Morning, Rico Medina, City of San Bruno

Rick Bonilla San Mateo, He, him, his

Helen Wolter, Office of Senator Josh Becker

Good Morning!

Good Morning , Shanise Perry- Npower student Her/she

Good morning! - Maggie Fahey, Chamber San Mateo County

Good morning

Morning! LaShonda Kennedy from College of San Mateo.

Hi All, Christy Wegener - SamTrans

Good Morning, Erika Rincon (she/her), Health Policy and Planning

Good morning, Louise Rogers, County Health She/Her

Good Morning! Tanya Beat, SMC Commission on the Status of Women & LGBTQ Commission, DVC

Good Morning Everyone, Art Taylor with JobTrain here.

Good morning. Jo Coffaro from the Hospital Council. Happy to join until 9:30

Good morning everyone! Happy to join this event! Punita Patel, Career Placement Manager at NPower CA.

Good Morning! Ashley Raggio, Building Back Better Initiative at Joint Venture

Good morning and welcome - Peggy Jensen (she/her) San Mateo County

Good morning! Julia Horiuchi from Jobtrain

Good Morning! Shweta Bhatnagar, Stanford University Office of Government Affairs

Good morning, Dayna Chung (she/her), Community Equity Collaborative. Happy to be part of this discussion!

Good Morning. Ann O'Brien Legislative Aide to Supervisor Canepa.

Good morning all. --Ken Cole, Agency Director, Human Services Agency

Good morning! Sophia Layne, Cabrillo Unified School District and Coastside Recovery Initiative

Amy Chen, Community and Economic Development Director, City of East Palo Alto

Good Morning! Michelle DD First 5...

Hello, Juda Tolmasoff with Supervisor Groom's office.

Good morning. Linda Wolin, Senior Legislative Aide to Supervisor Pine

Good morning everyone! Amy Linehan, San Mateo County Transit District

Happy Wednesday! John Ford, Executive Director, Commute.org

Hi everyone. Barrie Hathaway, CEO, JobTrain, JobTrainworks.org

Good morning! Marah Curry, Foster City Chamber of Commerce

Hello All, Evan FD Jones, Executive Director Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club.

Great to be here with everyone. Chris Starling, Executive Director, NPower California

With the pandemic stalled by the Delta Variant, how do we keep the momentum for change alive?

How are we connecting to the local colleges and universities in SMC to be a part of this?

Does Brookings see potential for the Labor movement to open new opportunities for workers and apprenticeships?

How can this information get to the high schools? How is this information being used to high school opportunities?

Can we talk more about the pipeline? What kind of youth programs create strong skilled pipelines of candidates of color? If our kids of color are graduating (51%) but not ready for jobs or connected to jobs what responsibility do schools have for addressing that gap?

Julie Lind, San Mateo Labor Council. I think another barrier, in addition to the societal mindset of college or bust, is the skewed perception of what makes a “good job”. I just heard a lot of discussion of tech and expansion of opportunities in tech, but there are current opportunities that exist to earn while you learn and to enter into a career that will afford you high wages, good benefits and retirement security - union construction apprenticeship programs. No college degree requirement, focus on diversity in hiring, targeted outreach to women, bipoc community members, veterans (helmets to hard hats) and those who have struggled within the criminal justice system.

How do H1B1employment practices fit into this formula?

I strongly recommend that we set diversity hiring goals across industries and produce quarterly progress reports.

What about engaging a major career influencer platform like LinkedIn in playing some educational, social marketing role in this initiative.

Do you have examples of places that have successful Anchor Institution Consortiums where large employers come together to leverage learnings, make commitments, identify similar needs, and create collective pathways to solutions?

I was recently part of a conversation about executives making that commitment to hire diverse talent, but the question came up 'do they have an actual plan and pipeline?' Do you believe organizations would be more successful in diverse talent hiring if we bring the talent pipeline to them through coordinated workforce development efforts? Eliminating the need for them to create their own program or initiatives

And people in the service industry who make more on unemployment than they do at the workplace are staying home until employers raise their wages to a more appropriate level. People making more on unemployment than they do by working is not an indicator that unemployment is too high - it’s further proof that wages are too low.

Wages need to be more equitable because the area will always need a diversity of service providers and positions. Are there areas that are looking at both looking to expand diversity in employment and increasing wages for service employees as well?

We also run a trades apprenticeship readiness program that allows individuals with an interest in a career in construction to get an understanding of the various trades to decide which is the best fit for them. It’s the Trades Introduction Program.

Can you (Annelies or Luther) about early childhood education and care and what your research shows about the importance of child care as infrastructure? And, can you also talk about how we can encourage workforce development IN early childhood education when we are competing with other industries (like tech or health care). You spoke of apprenticeships, which have been very effective in trades as well as early childhood, but we need a broader consensus around investing in service or caregiving sectors.

That’s interesting thank you!

Did you say sniffing?

My 17 year old son just entered a program called YouthBuild where he will be learning construction an earning his GED, diploma optional, and they have a pipeline to the local union. This is Kitsap County, WA.

It’s funded by the US Department of Labor

I appreciate Anneliese comments on Building Trades apprentice training programs. It needs to be known that these programs are an extremely large, comprehensive and undeniably inclusive training programs. Diversity and equality are at the core of the labor movement. The construction workplace is extremely competitive and would benefit from having some support from our elected leadership for the trained and skilled members. We need to make efforts to require that building contractors are not wage thieves and do indeed hire apprentices from a state accredited apprentice training program . Our built environment is too important to leave to untrained workers or unscrupulous contractors. Will local elected leaders step up to the plate to create the construction workforce of the future?

How do you integrate city/local govt demographics that may not be as diverse in the commitment to diversity and inclusion providing the exec. makes it a priority?

https://ascendindiana.com/

The SV Manufacturing Roundtable effort lead by SJ and Fremont is looking working on linking employers with students on a regional basis

@Dayna: Please take a look at the new nanny course being offered at Foothill College. The goal is to build on the programming such that the College provides a nanny certification program where you can earn credits toward an AA and are transferrable to other universities. https://foothill.edu/childdevelopment/nanny.html

Shanise and Gisele represent the amazing talent in our communities!

They absolutely do!

Yes Gisele: “They aren’t speaking to each other and so they are not supporting me”

+1 to that.

Very proud of Shanise! NPower has tech training, professional development, social support and job placement under one roof.

Thank you !

Nova workshop and classes are excellent

Thank you, @karen! So glad you mentioned this wonderful program for supporting child care in home settings. The groundbreaking new program that TIFFIN has created in partnership with Foothill is a great example of the early childhood education workforce pathways we need to invest in and scale. Please feel free to check out the Teacher Pipeline Project that CEC offers in partnership with Skyline and Foothill. Here’s a link: https://www.communityequitycollaborative.org/ece-course.html. There are some promising models, including the Early Childhood Education apprenticeship program that the San Mateo County Community District is launching. But, our early childhood educator shortage is severe. We need A LOT more support and investment to scale these programs (among other workforce development supports).

These programs are excellent examples of how people get from being "Others" to BELONGING!

How can we reach out to Gisele and Shanise if we have something that might be of interest to them?

We can help put your together with them. Contact NOVAworks.

Thank you @Dayna! I'll share this program on the CSW FB page too.

Thank you, @Tanya!

You can also contact me at NPower heather.haag@npower.org and I will connect you directly with Shanise!

Thank you both so much for sharing your stories!

+1 to Kalimah's comment - thank you very much for sharing!

What was the most harmful barrier that you have faced so far?

Contact the JOBTRAIN Career Centers for employment support and opportunities. Larry Moody 650-384-6934

It was stated before, looking for a job by yourself is really hard. Having an advocate - someone who can vouch for your talent and character - this is really important. At NPower we create relationships with the CIOs and HR directorates of companies - and when we send someone like Shanise to interview, she has a competitive advantage because the company knows she has been through a rigorous program and has earned industry recognized certifications.

Thank you for the amazing wisdom. I also really appreciate the honesty about experiences with discrimination and bias. It's very painful and very real. Many companies don't realize it's happening at every level.

I love the Worker's Journey. Having worked with many clients, no one gets a job in a vacuum. Supporting their life is key too.

How can we build a stronger partnership between the worker’s journey across systems like child care?

How does NOVA work with child care?

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Go to menti.com on your phone browserEnter code: 3049 2035

very slick

Barriers..What is the relationship between Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers and San Mateo County Employers? SMC needs to identify itself as a background friendly employer..

Ditto Larry Moody

4:15 at the Belle Haven Starbucks works for me. I will see you then

How can we help SMC make this happen?

This has been a fantastic discussion. Thank you for the insights, ideas and inspiration. I look forward to helping to be a part of the solution!

Evan FD Jones evanj@midpenbgc.org. Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club

Alicia Aguirre

dayna@communityequitycollaborative.org (Community Equity Collaborative, workforce development for early childhood education)

Ann Walden, The Primary School

Ashley Raggio, Joint Venture - very interested in knowing how we can support coordination efforts across counties.

Cheryl@sanmateochamber.org

HIP Housing

It goes without saying that ALL Chambers of Commerce should be a part. Foster City Chamber of Commerce and its Business Leadership Council has and will continue to support efforts wherever possible. jbohigian@fostercitychamber.com

Danae Ramirez, San Mateo County Libraries ramirezd@smcl.org

How are you managing the immediate financial needs of families so they can focus on your agenda.

HIP Housing’s Self Sufficiency Program is designed to support families with housing, trauma informed care and access to local resources while they are in school to gain new skills. We take a very whole person and family approach to our services. We are also hiring right now.

giseledaren@gmail.com

Child care is essential!

Heather Haag, NPower CA, virtual instructor lead tech certification, social support services, professional development, career placement, and alumni follow-up for three year heather.haag@npower.org, https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherhaag/

correction: giseledarden@com

Sophia Layne, Cabrillo USD - looking forward to meeting the Nova Works team at an upcoming Coastside Workforce Development meeting with HMB City staff, Coastside Recovery Team and Chamber members!

Chamber San Mateo County: info@chambersmc.org

How are you incorporating the County's HSA department in your effort?

Shaniseperry@outlook.com

Excellent, thank you!

Great event - thank you, all!

Juda Tolmasoff: jtolmasoff@smcgov.org

thanks

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Terrific. Thank you.

Thank you!

Thanks all!