Q&A
Engagement of NYCHA residents in workforce development programs
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Council Member De La Rosa asks about efforts to engage NYCHA residents in workforce development programs. Ahmed Tigani from HPD describes their collaboration with NYCHA and other partners to provide job opportunities in the housing sector.
- Mentions partnership with REES (NYCHA's center for workforce development)
- Describes the Housing and Career Pathways program, a collaboration with Enterprise and Brooklyn Workers Initiative
- Highlights recent milestone of 101 graduates from the program and plans for future growth
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:58:37
What about Nietcha?
0:58:38
How would you be able to engage Nietcha residents to raise awareness?
Ahmed Tigani
0:58:42
So, Reese, Reese, which is their main center for workforce development and community development, is a partner that we work with often when we are collaborating on projects.
0:58:54
In fact, I mentioned earlier the housing and career pathways program, which is started as a pilot with enterprise in 2022 and now has grown 7 cohorts deep where we work with Greece.
0:59:08
We work with enterprise.
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We work with our nonprofit partner, Brooklyn Workers Initiative.
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To recruit and bring people into different jobs in the housing task housing workforce.
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And we actually just graduated our 100 and 1th graduate recently.
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So we looked to scale that program and continue to grow in the future.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:59:31
Great.
0:59:31
Thank you.
0:59:32
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