Molly Wasow Park
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And now for our third pillar, creating economic stability.
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We recognize that more and more New Yorkers rely on the city's resources to make ends meet.
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In addition to public benefits, rental assistance, and other essential resources we offer to help people get back on their feet, I will provide an overview of our career services and other supports that enable New Yorkers to secure steady income and live sustainable lives.
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In calendar year 2024, HRA helped 15,577 clients secure employment, an 89% increase over the calendar year 2023, '80 '2, '50 '2 job placements.
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In FY24, Hire NYC, which is our initiative that connects cash assistance recipients to human service providers, broke their record with human service providers hiring 8,197 public assistance clients, more than 2,500 more than in fiscal year twenty three.
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In FY '20 '5 through the February, '5 thousand '5 hundred and '60 '4 clients have been hired so far putting us on track to exceed last year's numbers.
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I also want to talk about the Pathways to Industrial and Construction Careers Program, or PINK, which advances training, education, and
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placements, particularly for, as you may gather, industrial and construction jobs.
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Pink has enrolled 11,026 individuals in construction and industrial training with six fifty three completions thus far.
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We've referred more than 1,000 individuals to jobs with five thirteen receiving job offers and three eighty three job placements with more than eight unions and public and private employers.
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Going forward, we will continue to invest in our career services programming.
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The pathways for access to careers and employment or PACE contracts begin October 2025 using the centralized no wrong door program model with locations throughout the borough.
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The program will streamline and minimize travel burden, maximize access to all employment and support services, and foster stronger client and staff relationships.
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We'll establish an in demand occupation and sector focused approach that connects clients to skilled professions that offer family sustaining wages, utilize labor market data to clients in gaining marketable skills for success and advancement in their careers, and streamline processes for vendors by offering a hybrid approach to engaging clients.
