Q&A
Overview of SBS training and education programs
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Commissioner Gross provides an overview of SBS's training and education programs, both under Local Law 156 and beyond. These programs cover a wide range of topics to support small businesses in various sectors.
- SBS offers courses on entity formation and commercial lease assistance
- Specialized training is provided for nightlife establishments, including safety and Narcan training
- The agency offers programs for the food and beverage industry and the growing legal cannabis industry
Dynishal Gross
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So we provide dozens of, types of courses, some through our business solution center, some through our central staff.
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We have courses on entity formation.
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We have course, those are quite popular.
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We provide courses on our commercial lease assistance program.
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So the the heart of that service is a deep consultative service where the business owners are actually represented by the attorneys from our vendor in a confidential attorney client privilege relationship on pre litigation matters.
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Well, we introduce a broader set of businesses to commercial leasing issues, concerns, and the service through business education, webinars, and clinics.
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And those are extreme those are popular as well, and we think that's a great way to market that service and increase the impact of the our investment in commercial lease assistance.
Oswald Feliz
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Okay.
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And outside of Local Law 156, are there other trainings and education outreach that SBS engages in related to regulatory compliance outside of Local Law 156?
Dynishal Gross
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Yes.
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Well, I'm getting to understand the the categories of reporting required by Local Law 156, and I think there's some, you know, potential overlap in the categories that are described in the law.
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So as we work through this, we'll have to think about how we will kind of distribute the business courses and business education offerings that we have across the categories required by the local law.
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But we do provide some specialized training, for example, to nightlife establishments.
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We're helping them understand, how to, protect the safety of their patrons.
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We're providing Narcan training.
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We are helping them, understand upstander culture and practices.
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Practices.
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So for some specialized industries like the office of nightlife, our food and beverage industry partnership, is providing training, and we're we're excited that we've been working through a new curriculum focused on the planning and initiation of new food and beverage industry industry businesses.
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So that, it's a it's an industry where there's a lot of interest, you know, significant complexity, but but some, fewer barriers to entry than in some other industries, industries and a great deal of interest in our client profile.
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So we wanna be sure that they understand all of the steps, to launch a f and b business and have our support in doing that.
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So that's another specialized service.
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We also offer educational programs focused on the growing legal cannabis industry in the city of New York through our cannabis NYC program.
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So we actually have cannabis account managers in all of our business solution centers.
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They support entrepreneurial New Yorkers who wanna apply for licenses to the state, but also understand, the legal cannabis industry as it's growing in the city.
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Those are examples of some of the business education, services that may fall outside of the, what, requirements of 156.
Oswald Feliz
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Yeah.
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These trainings are important, but access to these trainings is, equally important.
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So what are steps that we take to ensure that everyone has access to these types of trainings?