Chair asks about separation of offices
Won asks how the administration separates NYC Talent, the Office of Community Hiring, and SBS in workforce development. Harry explains OCH is part of NYC Talent, which works across city partners including SBS.
Can you help me understand how this administration separates Office of Talent and Workforce Development versus community hiring versus SPS on who's doing what workforce development?
Like, how are you guys deciding?
Who's covering what scope?
Because for me, I think workforce development covers all of this.
Yeah.
So our office, the Office of Talent and Workforce Development, the Office of Community Hiring, I recognize it's confusing to have an office within an office, but the Office of Community Hiring is part of NYC Talent.
And so the work around community hiring, everything that I've shared in my testimony and here
today is part of NYC Talent.
NYC Talent generally works across all of the city partners who are doing workforce development, and that includes SBS.
And so like the Workforce One centers that SBS operates are run by SBS, staffed by SBS through SBS contracts, et cetera.
And we at Talent work closely with SBS and the many partners.
For community hiring specifically, while it's run out of our office, the intention and design behind community hiring is really
to bring more jobs, to bring more employers, to bring better jobs, the diversity of jobs into the public workforce system.
And that, again, based on our referral source network, right, we want to make sure that HRA, SPS, DYCD, the many CBOs, labor unions are all plugged in to help connect job seekers to these opportunities.