Chair asks about social workers/nurses and CUNY
Won notes public shortages of social workers and nurses and asks about city partnerships with CUNY to help people finish education. Harry says NYC Talent focuses on apprenticeships and increasing opportunities beyond community hiring.
Okay, because it's been public in the news how we're short in social workers and nurses, especially in the health care sector.
So are there any efforts from the city of New York in partnership with CUNYs to make sure that there are programs to allow people to finish their education, especially since the federal government has declassified them as public servants?
Yeah, so that is something that, like I said, beyond community hiring that our office is always focused on of trying to increase opportunities, help make sure that we are connecting more New Yorkers and improving job quality and things like that through apprenticeships.
And so that is something that we are focused on.