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Aldebol asks whether trainings lead to promotions and agency tracking

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 0:34:34 · 1 min 40 sec

Aldebol asks whether trainings lead to promotional opportunities and whether DCAS tracks agency participation; Outar says promotion outcomes are tracked at the agency level and DCAS data is not that granular, though it plans to engage low-participation agencies.

Shirley Aldebol

And do these trainings or some of these trainings lead to promotional opportunities?

Kadian Outar

That information would be at the agency level, so we're not able to share that.

Shirley Aldebol

And does DCAS track data on which agencies have the highest participation in a specific type of training curriculum?

Kadian Outar

We are not that granular with the data.

Kadian Outar

We can and we are planning to look at how we can further engage agencies where we see a lower participation.

Kadian Outar

So one of the things that we do is we meet with the training liaisons now on a bimonthly basis, and we try to highlight the trainings that are available to them, encourage them to share that information with their employees, and we're looking at how we can reach directly to

Kadian Outar

agencies where we see little or no engagement with our training.

Kadian Outar

That's definitely a part of our plan going forward.

Shirley Aldebol

Do you know if the agencies are actually tracking that data to see if employees who participated in training programs are able to move into higher paying?

Kadian Outar

Other agencies may have other retention and employee management goals, so they may track that.

Kadian Outar

We work with a lot of agencies who offer agencies.

Kadian Outar

specific training, so they may have internal processes to track that, but I can't say for 100% sure which agencies.

Shirley Aldebol

I see you rejoined us.

Shirley Aldebol

I was going to call on you and you were gone.

Shirley Aldebol

I'm going to pause so Council Member Morano can ask questions.