>> thank you all this morning for having me here, supervisors. i have worked with most of you all and particularly supervisor kim, we've been at this for almost two years. just to give you some time lines around how all this came about. we responded to a grant in the fall of 2011. it was an h 1v grant and we got notification in the spring of last year that we won the award and received the fund ing in july. over the last year 1/2 we have been preparing to receive funding what we call sector academy training. this is the fourth out of my office. the first one was city build which

started in 2005-2006 and with the fund we were able to start the health care academy and now we are techsf. the concept of the sector of academies is to look at the labor market and set up training where we can ensure that folks get placement and the idea is to get hard and soft skill training and partner with the employer community to ensure that the participants have an opportunity of gaining employment upon compleement. in -- completion. it's not like you are going to a community college for a year or two. the idea is to give folks enough skill and relevant skills so they can get employed in a shorter period of time over all throughout all the academies

that we provide, the majority of the participants that we serve throughout san francisco are folks that are usually not in the labor market, struggling to get into labor market or have some issues that may prevent them from easily getting into labor market so when we saw the grant for technology it seemed the try the structure to get this set up. this is the first time i get called for a hearing and i'm glad about that to give i -- you a baseline for that. i want to provide an overview and as supervisor cohen said, all of our programs are done on a team approach. at a high level the vision of techsf to ensure the residents and county of san francisco get

an opportunity to participate in the tech sector. and the training we provide is relevant. >> i want to stop for a second. do you have copies of the printout? we don't have any here. does everybody have a copy of the powerpoint? >> so the initiative brings together the industry,

employers, educators, the community based organizations as well as the city to provide a consortium to address this technology. the other idea behind this is that we'll be able to use the federal dollars as seed money and at the end of this we'll have a system that is established and we are able to leverage funding to keep it going. so our focus has been on targeting individuals that would otherwise not again get an opportunity to participate in the tech sector. h 1b by definition does have eligibility requirements. all participants have to be 18 years and older. they need high school diploma or ged will safe

that requirement and some work experience, some history. the other population that dol identified in this particular grant were individuals that had been identified as having long-term unemployment as a target population. in long-term unemployment meant that you have been unemployed for six months or more. we were just really starting to come out of the recession we were in so we were seeing in terms of who were left as being unemployed are people that were unemployed for a long time which means their skills were not up to speed to compete in the market and needed some additional assistance. from 18 years to 24 year-olds and you will see the data in the next largest group

we serve is up to 40 and that has to do with the grant requirements. i'm not sure with the process if you want to stop me as i'm going. >> maybe you can help someone keep the slides moving because they are not moving with you. >> we have not really moved yet. with the funding, i want to clarify the funding. we've been talking to you all individually about the amount of funding we received and just to tell you how we wrote these grants. we wrote them in a partnership. so west ed which is here today partnered with us in applying for the grant. the way that

grant is set up is that the city receives a portion of that grant. we receive about $3 million in assistance to our tech academy. the other 2 million goes to west ed to provide in incumbent workers that are working already but need a certain amount of skill grades and that's folks working in ibm and at&t companies. that's the $5 million. the $3 million which came later is something called the work force innovation fund grant. that was a grant to help us look at how we can use technology to integrate it into work force in a more creative way. $2.4

million of that fund comes to us. the other $600,000 goes to our other partner to do evaluation as well. so while the total was $8 million the city did not receive all the $8 million. that was the way the grant was focused when it was received. so both grants essentially through dol requirements have a very at the end extensive evaluation that we are going through and we'll have at the end of both of these grants. >> can you tell us what year are we in this grant cycle. >> we are in the first year of both these grants. so the width grants is 3 years and the hb grant is 4. that's how i refer to it vernacular wise. in terms

of the partnerships and how it's set up. the assessment case management job search skills and internship and job placement is done through a group. the other academy tech mecca and usf is i would say secondary providers to those services, but the three organizations that i mentioned earlier are sort of our primary. they do all of our support services. the training as you can see is done by those same organizations and i would add the community college and sf state is also a part of that. there is also a number of educational consultants that

have helped us with labor market research, industry knowledge and know how, specific information, community technology has helped us a lot in the initial writing of the grant and helped with the labor market research. sf unified also is a part of this, not so much as a paid participant, but when we wrote the grant, we definitely consulted with them and my latest rfp, we added some non-grant dollars to get to the school district side. the grant was not focused on high school students so in order to address that. typically that's not what my office does because dcyf does a lot more, but because we wanted

to get to folks earlier, we took resources out of my budget to get to that area. the incumbent worker training is done with the department of video coalition and as we are done with the presentation, you will happy new year more about that. currently we have 150 students enrolled. so we currently have all of those students who will be done with those various trainings by the end of summer, but i will talk of about of that 150 we do have 25 hard place ments so far meaning that we have been able to place them. this slide is showing you the breakdown of the dollars around the fund

that go we received. so you can see how to funding laid out for us. the other thing i think that's important to know about h 1b grant is the whole point of h 1b visas is a lot of companies use that to bring workers in. they are sending a message that they want us, the united states as a whole because these are federal grants, to have an opportunity to set up training systems that we can grow our own and because at the time we submitted this grant, the tech industry was booming and we had a market for it. i think we were able to really show the advantages of why an h 1b grant would be a value for us. the additional dollars that the width is able to provide and do some

innovative things about this company. for city bill which was really focused on construction. we have a very drawn out -- weigh in which i notify students of potential openings. we are able to experiment with something called techs to work which is an application that we want to pilot with our city bill students because now i have five years of cohorts of students that are waiting to be employed. we are coming back with a tech boom that i can do a mass text to notify them of jobs. i never had that ability. we were doing calling up on the phone type of thing. so this allows us to do these types of things to make it easier for our population to be notified

of employment. >> i don't know if you are done with the innovation fund, my question was on the h 1 b funding. i know it's targeted towards the occupation of industries. i'm clearly one of those is the tech industry which we unfortunately in our country we are not training for. is it particularly for the industry? my guess is if we are doing it by occupation those would be fairly highly skilled positions that if the tech industry is going to convince the government to give an h 1b visa, for my understanding they have to show

high threshold in terms of training in order to bring those individuals over. does the program that's funding then have to train those people for specific jobs or just an industry as a whole? >> the industry as a whole. so we had to look at market data and look at growth and find the occupations that met the need of the populations that we wanted to try to recruit. you will see as i go through my demographics, most of the students at techsf have only a high school diploma. you will see a chart that actually shows you the types of things that we are trying to train for and also how we've looked at the industry to try to identify the things that don't require which you are referring to is a really high threshold that the community does have a continuum. we have since we

have started this project the need for high needed engineers. that is true, there is no denying that, but there is also a need and you will see as we go through this for folks with other skills that are not at that level. so we tried to set this up where we can get to a continuum so we do not fall through that. you will see as we go through the demographic. >> thank you. >> what you are looking at now are sort of the goals of the grant and so let me go through this. so we are on the hook to enroll 400 students in occupational training and of those we have said we can place 320. the next one is project base learning which we work in

partnership with city college and sf state and we set we would enroll 200 and 160 of those we would place in some type of hard employment. the total is 500. the entrepreneurship training is you get 200 from those that i mentioned. it's a mix. the reason we want to do something around entrepreneurship and small businesses is one of the reasons we have a high demand here is san francisco is known as an entrepreneurial city. so we wanted to make sure that students understood that aspect too. and the wif grant allows us to do this. the total through the grants we are responsible for 500 placements

over the next four years. that's what the grant requirement is asking us to do. to get to these enrolled participants, we'll work a lot more with those individuals to get to that enrollment. it's a funnel through that time. that's what our grant requirement is for. this is our first cohort so there is going to be lots of lessons learned for us as well as with other academies in terms of what people need in terms of light touch versus a deeper touch and to the degree that we are able to understand and figure out that type of thing. not everybody is going to need to go as deep of a techsf. you will be surprised and you will

hear these students that sometimes people need a lot more to be connected. they have the skills but they need to know how to get into the jobs. so we'll find out a lot more information about other things we can do for people to have opportunities. a lot of industries can be a mystery on how you get into it. how do i get a job at some of these companies? that's something we want to do is demystify on what it takes to get into the industry, especially young folks. >> i have a question in going back to the top part of the slide. you said there are 400 participants and 320 job place ments. that leaves out about 80. how do you find jobs for those 80 students. >> that's sort of what our requirement is, if i place all

400, i'm happy. that's what the goal of the grant is. it doesn't mean we'll just thrive for 320. we are going to try to get all 400 placed. you will find a lot of times what happens is depending on how the program flows and the program participants can talk about this. folks will get what they need from you and go off. they don't need as much as they thought, go off and get their own jobs, you might lose some contact with people. it doesn't mean we'll stop at that number. that's what the grant is telling me to do. those other 80 will get services from us. we are not stopping services. >> thank you. that answers my question. >> the demographics of who we are serving to date. >> could you go over the last item. the incumbent workers from at&t and ibm?

>> sure. the grant calls for the two demographics that i was looking for. the workers that were 40 and over and then separate from that they were really interested in looking at how you do skills upgrade because you will find a lot of folks in the industry, this industry as you know supervisor kim, it moves at -- it just pops. this was an opportunity to integrate a system to make sure people just didn't plateau and leave or get pushed out so you will see a lot of that. the at&t and ibm worker fall in that category. west end, they can talk more and bay back do a lot of that work already. a lot of these companies use those entities to help their workers keep their skills fresh so they don't lose their employment.

>> so all 1430 employees on that line are currently employed. are they all employed at at&t and ibm and they are all 40 and over? >> i think it's more of a diverse range. they will come up towards the end and talk a little bit more about that piece of it. >> but that was one of the grant requirements that we had with the h 1b side. i want to talk a little bit about the demographics and who we are serving. just from a racial ethnic perspective, i think we've worked really hard to have as much diversity. i have had an opportunity to go to a lot of these companies and see and talk to the individuals there and so when you look at

our demographics just to show a little bit of how we compare. when you look at the national make-up of the it industry, latinos make-up 5 percent, right now we are at 15 percent, african americans make-up 7 percent and we are at 13 percent, asian pacific islanders are 15 percent and we are now at 33 percent. the goal is to tap into individuals that you would not normally see in these companies and through work of community based organizations and the way we do outreach as we have you all as we continue is to work with the board of supervisors to get more information. there is

lots places we can reach to a certain population. >> quick questions. thank you. do you have the national average for white and other? >> yes. we do. >> the national average. >> based on your current chart and based on your numbers that you gave me, i'm trying to get those to add up to a hundred. >> you mean for all of these numbers to come to a hundred percent? >> you said 5 percent latino, 15 percent asian pacific islanders, 7 percent african american. i'm trying to get a

comparison perspective on a national level based on the numbers that you provided. >> okay. let me go over it again. what we found is that latinos in the national average in the it field the information we have make-up 5 percent just on the national average. for african americans is 7 percent and asian pacific islanders is 15 percent. that's what we have. >> so if it's 70 percent white, that means the other category is anything. it's probably about 3 percent. >> right. >> thank you. i wanted to make sure i understood. >> sure. >> then the next one is age. you can see our age breakdown. right now with our first cohort. the split is between a

younger age cohort of 18-24 which is the highest group we've got right now which is at 43 percent. the 25-39 is 21 percent and the older age group is at 36 percent. and just to give you a little comparison, for my age demographic for city billed probably falls higher to 39. the idea that we are capturing a younger crew, i think is important and that's a good thing. for gender, we are actually a little higher on male than female. the national average of it for women is at 27 percent

and we are at 39 percent. we want to make sure we are tapping into as much diversity as we can. in terms of education, you can see as i said earlier 76 percent of the folks so far are at high school or ged it's a larger number that is not credit entialed. you can see by the district how it breaks out in terms of your own districts. because this is a federal grant, i could not stipulate late that it's only only san francisco resident s. when you use federal funding you cannot

stipulate a program like that. if people find their way to the program, there is no way this is san francisco residents only. the other category, maybe they have moved to other areas. the other category represents a group of folks that have moved around. about 27 folks fall in that category that are truly not san francisco residents. any questions there? one lesson is that we didn't do a good job. one of the things we want to work on is we didn't do a strong of a job out of the gate around esl or ell learners. one of the things we are working on now as we speak to be ready for our next cohort is to make sure we address

that. the colleges themselves do some of that but i'm not satisfied with it nor my providers are either and with all of our other academies we have provisions for folks that come with language issues. we will address that in our next cohort and you are currently doing so. any other thoughts or questions? >> i know that you have these broken down for neighborhood and one of the questions i had was about the zip code specifically because i wanted to understand what were the areas, the residents from district 5 came from. >> i have zip codes.

>> yes, if you want to share that like for western district and hayes i would like to know the breakdown. >> sure. i have that and i will make sure i give that to you all. >> could that be put on the slide so the public can view it as well? >> sure. there you go. i don't know if you can see that. so that is our current cohort by zip code. >> okay. thank you.