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I want to thank the doctor. I said this a week ago at an event that we did with the Small Businesses. I dont know of any other institution thats opened up the doors to the American Dreams than miamidade college. Thank you for the service to the community and ultimately to the country. I want to spend a few moments talking about the book. The title is American Dream. The American Dream has nothing to do with how much money you make. The American Dream isnt about getting rich off of that may be yo...

Things were trying out is experiments on the ground and one is a Pilot Program. Were hoping to do at Mission School sestill in the planning stages but hopefully by this summer we will have internships and Credit Recovery. We found in the past students in this program didnt have the time to be in a job or internship so were working with employers, sf made and linkedin and other Tech Companies to have internships just for them so they can go to that and in the morning go to the Credit Recovery and...

Mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing ...

Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a pla...

Students so we have orientation for the Business Partners and the students. We have ongoing workshops. We have packets, everything you can think of and how to ask for more or less work so i think we have those students. Now the other students that i am talking about and were excited to expand out for the project labor internship they have the same services in the summer, but they dont have the follow through during the school year, so its episodic for the pla kids that come out of the different ...

Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i...

General positive feedback and then things to improve . Yeah so those were some of the things to improve. Right. Overall we definitely get a lot of feedback thanks for helping me get a job and starting my career. They like the youth resource fair as an opportunity to build skills and they find a job and a nonprofit and in 2012 we didnt have door ways and not easy on the ground point to get help and since then we have a place for them to go we get good feedback. I know this isnt always true but so...

Right. And how is that related to the persistence i mean how Many Employers what kind of evaluations do we have from the employers . Are they offering more summer jobs . I dont have hard data on it but we have more private sector than we can fill and when talking about entry level and there is a lot now and its a buyers market in the economy and we often dont have enough work ready and past muster with the employers and thats what door ways is screening the people and i dont have a number for it...

Olds and most employers want to hire 18 and older and the Credit Recovery. They would like to see better coordination across the departments and knowing where the opportunities are so were building out the website and the website has a lot of the programs and work recreation and puc listed on it and the youth were confused to go for which program and at the fair there will be access for that so again this year we will do a survey. What were the top or general positive feedback and then things to...

Summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over t...