More than 4,200 people have applied for the $200 million program since it launched in...
A worker install a waterproof layer to a concrete wall at the site of the new Spurs facility on July 28. Joeris General Contractors, the company doing the work, is among the roughly 180 employers that have pledged to look at hiring graduates from city’s new Ready to Work program.Eric De La Rosa felt like he could do more. He had been working at a manufacturing plant for six years, and he found the job to be rote and repetitive. Also, he wanted to be his own boss.
City officials hope there will be thousands of such success stories from Ready to Work training programs. Over the next five years, the ambitious initiative aims to enroll about 28,000 city residents into college or job training and place 16,000 people into jobs that pay at least $15 an hour. Ramsey, a 45-year-old native of Baton Rouge, La., is affable, and his booming laughter signals his presence. He delivers incisive soliloquies to whomever will listen about how San Antonio’s workforce development system can lift residents out of poverty en masse.
Castillo starts classes in phlebotomy — the medical practice of drawing blood — on Tuesday, one of the first cohorts of participants to enter training through Restore Education. To be eligible for training through Ready to Work, participants must be at least 18 years old, eligible to work in the United States and earn less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level, which is about $34,000 for an individual.
The city has contracted with four organizations to provide intake and case management services: Alamo Colleges District, Workforce Solutions Alamo, Project QUEST and Restore Education. They will receive a total of $189 million to pay for participants’ tuition and provide case management. The rollout of Train for Jobs in fall 2020 was marred by technical glitches for people trying to apply, and by the fact the city didn’t communicate enough with San Antonio employers to ensure graduates would be able to land jobs amid the pandemic.A breakdown of key state and local races and candidates in the May 24 primary runoff.
Train for Jobs marked the first time that workforce development organizations spread throughout the city came together under a unified program. That’s laid the foundation for Ready to Work, said Sammi Morrill, associate vice chancellor for economy and workforce development at Alamo Colleges District.
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