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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Kayt Tiskus, Principal of Collective Public Affairs, on Workforce Development and Support Programs
6:46:51
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Kayt Tiskus testifies about various workforce development and support programs funded by the City Council, emphasizing their importance for justice-impacted individuals and immigrants. She highlights the success of these programs in providing employment opportunities, rights education, and support services.
- Programs mentioned include Pride at Work, domestic workers empowerment initiative, workers cooperative business development initiative, support for persons in the sex trades, and the sexual assault initiative.
- Tiskus emphasizes the unique nature of some programs, such as Pride at Work being the first publicly funded partnership between unions and queer organizations.
- She requests an increase in funding to $7,400,000 for the support for persons in the sex trades initiative.
Kayt Tiskus
6:46:51
Thank you so much for holding this hearing today.
6:46:56
I wanted to talk a little bit about programs that the council is already supporting that really help make sure that folks who are justice impacted and people who are immigrants are able to get the services that they need, which is becoming even more important as demands on them are made worse and worse by the federal administration.
6:47:17
First there's a bunch of really great workforce development programs that the council supports.
6:47:22
Pride at Work works with LGBT people who are justice impacted LGBT people without homes, people all over the map.
6:47:33
And it's actually the nation's first and only publicly funded partnership between union high road employment and queer organizations.
6:47:42
It's working like a charm.
6:47:43
One of the organizations in it has literally a % employment placement which in this economy is crazy.
6:47:50
Also the domestic workers empowerment initiative and the workers cooperative business development initiative both focus on making sure people who might not have their documents totally in order are able to have safe dignified access to workplaces, but also to understand and know the rights that City Council has worked really hard to pass for them.
6:48:11
The City Council's human rights law work for domestic workers is first in the nation and in order to be able to use that law domestic workers got to know about it, which is what the domestic workers empowerment initiative does.
6:48:25
Sort of breezing on to folks who are especially justice impacted, Support for persons in the sex trades is really kind of hitting all over the map in terms of providing support for people who are coming into the city who are sort of finding that is their first place where they're needing to seek employment, making sure that they can get access to city services and go about their business safely is so important.
6:48:50
And that initiative is asking for an increase to 7,400,000.
6:48:54
And my wrap up sentence is the sexual assault initiative also keeps a close eye on folks who are justice impacted.
6:49:03
It's the city council not the mayor, not the state, only the city council funds the sexual assault initiative.
6:49:10
So thank you for your work with that as well.