Community Voices Heard

Paid Transitional Jobs Expansion Initiative: Establishing JTP Positions in Multiple City Agencies

The Paid Transitional Jobs Expansion Initiative would build on the success of the existing Parks Opportunity Program (POP). It would invest $33.6 million dollars in the HRA budget in order to increase the number of positions available, expand into new agencies, lengthen the program to a full-year, improve access to education and training options, and develop career ladder pathways within city agencies.

HRA Back to Work Support and Accountability Initiative: Technical Assistance/Training, Monitoring/Assessment, and Evaluation

The City Council Welfare and Contracts Committees should jointly oversee the HRA Back to Work Support and Accountability Initiative as the two Council Committees with interest in the HRA Back to Work contracts. Funds would initially be transferred to an intermediary organization to manage the initiative. Three separate Requests for Proposals (RFPs) could next be drafted, one for each different part of the initiative, and then distributed.

CVH's Recommendations to the Commission for Economic Opportunity

This document is Community Voices Heard's recommendations to the Commission for Economic Opportunity (CEO). We created this because we would like to see New York City become # 1 in the nation for creating good, living wage jobs for its residents and providing people with the necessary preparation (education & training, paid job experience, etc.) to access these jobs. We believe that our recommendations will bring us closer to that goal.

Putting People First!

Putting People First! would designate a $75 million budget line item for a citywide initiative to provide a total of 2,500 participant slots across two programs:

(1) Emergency Employment and Job Experience through an Expansion of Paid Transitional Jobs Programs, and

(2) Career-ladder Training Program Coupled with Paid Internships Targeted at High-Wage Growth Industries.

The $75 million is intended to build upon promising city initiatives and would include intensive case management, job placement, and retention services. A variety of City host agencies could potentially administer the paid transitional jobs program with oversight from either the Human Resources Administration (HRA) or the Department of Small Business Services (SBS). SBS is also put forth as a potential administering agency for the career-ladder training initiative program.