Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures, a non-profit organization, in support of the coordination of their workforce development programming.
Creating Central Ohio Futures, or CCOHF, is a non-profit organization that aims to educate, uplift, and place Central Ohio’s workers into good paying jobs. With a focus on unemployed and underemployed adult residents of the City of Columbus, CCOHF is contributing to the Columbus City Council goal of supporting access to good-paying jobs and creating pathways out of poverty.
Specifically, the CCOHF program provides mid-term workforce development training focused on both professional and technical skills, preparing participants for either maintenance or clerical jobs. Program participants who are placed in a job after the program have an average wage of $19 an hour along with full medical benefits.
In addition to the 8-week job training program, participants receive on-going case management and supportive service dollars to remove barriers to employment. Participants also have access to an employment specialist that assists them with job searching, placement, and retaining their position.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to provide timely support for the organization to hire a workforce development coordinator for the fall cohorts of job training participants.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Jobs Growth subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Creating Central Ohio Futures in support of their job training programs; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Jobs Growth subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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WHEREAS, living-wage jobs are an essential element to building pathways out of poverty in Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, Creating Central Ohio Futures provides job training to unemployed and underemployed Columbus residents and p...
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