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Lower San Antonio Collaborative
Family Economic Success Workgroup
March 8, 2005
Group #1 Discussion: Result 1 – Strategy 1
Question 1: Who else needs to be in the Room…
- To help accomplish 2005, 2007, 2010 Goals?
- contact employers (i.e. Nimen Ranch)
- Workforce Investment Board (WIB)
- Local one-stop operators, affiliates
- Adult Education Schools, Peralta College
- Other employer CBOs (i.e. East Bay Vietnamese)
- Labor organizations
- City of Oakland (Al Auletta)
- Faith-based organizations (i.e. Harbor House)
- To provide more accurate information/data?
- School District
- Alameda County Welfare Agency (i.e. Social Services)
- State Department of Finance
- Worker’s Center
- University of California, Berkeley (i.e. School of Public Policy)
- Bay Area Construction Sector Intervention Collaborative (BACSIC)
- Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD)
- To engage residents more effectively?
- Mujeres Unidas
- CRESE
- Family Independence Initiative (FII)
- Head Start Sites
- English Center for International Women
- Community organizers (i.e. EBAYC)
- Oakland Community Organizations (i.e. St. Anthony’s)
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
- Adult Education
- Churches
- City Council Staff
- Other CBOs and county welfare agencies
- CalWorks staff and contractors
- County Access to Public Health, Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD)
- County Outreach Committees
Question 2: What do we want the next District 2 Councilmember to support?*
- more employee training funds to LSA
- community benefits agreements as policy to create more opportunity for local hiring
- support strategies to support mixed legal status residents to work
- advocacy of business attraction and in turn creation of more jobs
- increase in community credit union
- city investment, larger portion of cap money to neighborhood (i.e. EITC)
- investment in local CBOs to do economic development rather than just relying on city (i.e. maintenance, work force development)
- city employment data made available to neighborhood
*listed in order by number of votes - the first having the most votes, the last having zero votes
Group #2
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