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Workforce partnerships and activities in juvenile detention facilities
4:28:33
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the workforce partnerships with BPI and Children's Village in juvenile detention facilities. Commissioner Dannhauser explains the various activities offered, including tutoring, OSHA training, a barista program, and facility improvement projects.
- Thousands of hours of tutoring are provided in classrooms and on the halls
- Young people participate in vocational training like OSHA certification and a barista program
- Detainees are involved in painting and spackling their living spaces
- The programs are regularly updated based on youth engagement and feedback
Althea V. Stevens
4:28:33
I know in your testimony you talked about the workforce partnerships with BPI and the Children's Village, BPI being at Crossroads and Children's Village being at Horizon.
4:28:47
Can you talk to me a little bit about like those partnerships and what are some of the active activities or workforce activities that they are doing with the young people in the facilities?
Jess Dannhauser
4:29:00
Absolutely.
4:29:01
So one of their biggest activities is tutoring.
4:29:06
So we have thousands of hours of tutoring.
4:29:08
As you see they come onto the halls, they go into the classrooms.
4:29:13
In addition we have young people who are doing OSHA training, we have the barista program, we have the spackling work that we talked about, they're actually painting their living spaces.
4:29:27
We're always sort of thinking with them as Elise mentioned to you yesterday, we want to keep it fresh and so we're trying to bring in new programming with them.
4:29:35
Those contracts are about a year old so we are looking at sort of what comes next year and engaging young people around what that would look like.
4:29:45
Space can be a challenge to create some of the vocational programming, but we really the kids love it, they engage with it, and we're grateful for both of those partners.