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Details and funding of the new CRED program
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the new Community Resource for Employment Development (CRED) program. DYCD officials provide information on the program's purpose, providers, and funding.
- CRED targets participants ages 24 to 40, especially those involved with the criminal justice system
- Eight providers selected through RFP process to offer comprehensive services
- Program funded at approximately $27 million in FY 2026
- Offers job training, supportive services, paid internships, and job placements in various sectors
Althea V. Stevens
0:55:47
Commissioner, you talked about the community resource for employment development, CREED, that's what it is.
0:55:52
What's Cred.
0:55:54
Oh, Cred.
Keith Howard
0:55:55
Cred, like Cred on the streets.
0:55:58
Oh.
Althea V. Stevens
0:56:02
You came up with that didn't you?
0:56:07
Yes.
0:56:11
What's the funding for provider, I mean what's the funding for this?
0:56:15
And could you talk more about it?
0:56:16
I know you started to talk a little bit about it because I know this is a new program.
0:56:19
Can you talk a little bit more about this?
0:56:22
What's the like funding rate for this?
Keith Howard
0:56:25
Commissioner Mulligan is gonna talk and give you the essentials, but long and short of it is there was a gap in service areas when we surveyed our workforce programs.
0:56:39
And we realized that the gap was we weren't doing a real good service for people, participants ages 24 to 40.
0:56:51
Especially those who were just as involved or linked to a criminal justice system.
0:56:59
You want to talk about the pandemic?
0:57:01
Yeah, Mike.
Valerie Mulligan
0:57:05
Great.
0:57:05
Hi chair steering.
0:57:06
Sure.
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So we're really excited about the CRED program.
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We have eight providers who have gone through the RFP process.
Althea V. Stevens
0:57:12
Who are the providers?
Valerie Mulligan
0:57:13
Can rattle them off right now.
0:57:15
We've got cases Common Point, JCC of Staten Island, Queens Community House, Renaissance Technical Institute, United Activities Unlimited, Youth Justice Network, and Brownsville Community Culinary Center.
0:57:25
So you'll hear from that list it's a good mix of folks who have been in our portfolio before and some new folks who are really excited to start working with.
0:57:34
Our team has been on the ground working with each of those groups to launch these new programs because they're really something different for DYCD up to age 40 like Commissioner referenced.
0:57:44
Each program is going to be really comprehensive.
0:57:46
So offering job training, supportive services, referrals and paid internships, job placements at the end of all of that.
0:57:56
We have programs in construction, culinary, entertainment, health, technology, transportation.
0:58:02
It's a really exciting opportunity for us because like the commissioner said we kept hearing that after 24 there's no DYCD workforce program for that really critical population.
0:58:10
So this is really going to be the place where we're able to build out those services.
Althea V. Stevens
0:58:13
What's the funding this program?
Valerie Mulligan
0:58:17
I want to defer to our fiscal team to rattle off the
Nevita Bailey
0:58:21
Funding in FY twenty six is around approximately 27,000,000.