P.O.W.E.R.
Collaborative Network
Meeting
Summary
JULY 2005
The July 2005 P.O.W.E.R. Collaborative
Network (PCN) Meeting enjoyed two hosts. Reginald Garnett, Executive Director for the Business Training Schools, Inc., who coined
the phrase of “Free Education” as the meeting theme,
and our co-host Vivian Hochschild, Employment and Training
Specialist of the Southeast Area Social Services Funding Authority (SASSFA) who
eloquently resonated Mr. Garnett’s remarks. Our hosts reminded the PCN members that Free Education
on human resources and social services is a direct result from attending and
participating in the PCN.
The PCN members also extends
special appreciation to Alejandra Larios, Billy Williams, and Magdy Makar from Business Training
Schools and Jennifer Capp from SASSFA for helping
to make this a fine meeting. This was a great introduction to the City of
Paramount for PCN.
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Inside this Summary:
å Reginald
Garnett, Campus Director for Business
Training Schools.
å
Vivian Hochschild,
Employment and Training Specialist for SASSFA.
å
Carolyn
Hines discusses the importance of the
Hospitality Industry.
å
Claudia L.
Jones, COO for West Angeles CDC
provides insight on Domestic Violence.
å
PCN Member Announcements.
å
Choreographers of Careers seeks nominations for 2005
Awards Program.
å
PCN JULY meeting attendee listing.
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Reginald
Garnett, Campus Director for Business
Training Schools provided useful insight on the job placement services provided
by his schools. He attributes a portion
of the school’s success with placement to the successful networking completed
with the PCN. Job placement has high priority
with all students wanting to complete vocational education in property
management, computer graphics, and or hospitality training. The Business
Training Schools have two campuses to conveniently serve students, in either
Lakewood or Paramount.
The SASSFA works well with referrals and placements of Business Training
School’s students. Similarly, the City of Paramount is making positive changes
through the contributions of local businesses.
The Paramount Chamber of Commerce works to develop jobs for the area and
is working with student recruitment for the Business Training Schools.
Vivian
Hochschild, serves as the Employment and
Training Specialist for the Southeast Area Social Services Funding Authority
(SASSFA) Worksource Center in Paramount.
The SASSFA team has successfully operated a Worksource Center over the
past twelve years in Whittier, and they are excited about opening this
additional center and the first for the City of Paramount.
The Paramount Worksource had its grand opening on April 7, 2005, located
at 15749 California Avenue, Paramount, CA 90723, just behind the Rosewood
Restaurant. Operating from the
Workforce Investment Act, this center conducts client services for career
training, case management, youth & adult programs, computer classes, job
search and placement, resume writing, summer work experience, and free
employment services for local companies.
The center is complete with state-of-the-art computers, facsimile, and
phones available to clients. By
appointment, Ms. Hochschild is open
to provide tours to PCN, where her telephone number is (562) 633-9511, or email: hochschild@myjoblink.org
Carolyn Hines
discussed the importance and magnitude of the hospitality industry. The P.O.W.E.R. Collaborative organization
provides for real networking and follow-up with its members. Ms. Hines has worked in a large variety of hospitality industry positions as lead
chef for many hotels that include the Hyatt, Hilton, Radisson, Best Western,
Crystal Park Casino (formerly Lezbian Hotel) and other world class
entertainment organizations. The
purpose for sharing a brief background is to emphasize the magnitude of the
hospitality industry regarding employment opportunities.
There are over 200 different job classes available with any major
hotel. This industry readily welcomes
people with disabilities, multi-language, common positions (lawyers,
accountants, marketing, etc.) and uniquely skilled positions (musicians,
artist, shoppers, etc.), and of course all races, and genders. This is primarily because the world’s people
make up the hospitality industry’s customer base. The average hotel uses over a dozen different languages just
among the staff members.
Business Training Schools is requesting that anyone having clients
wanting to know more about the hospitality industry to alert their clients to
meet with a Business Training Schools representative. The hospitality field has an abundant resource of jobs with fewer
people to fill them. For example, the
Home Depot Sport Center in Carson consistently offers special programs for
youth that require energetic people to participate and learn world-class
activity in the process.
Ms. Hines trains
young people on seeing beyond the front line talent and to see the career
opportunities behind the artist. One
talent may generate many jobs from the transportation, ticketing, staging,
cooking, marketing, legal services and much more. Even though the hospitality positions have low entry-level
salaries, the tips can be outstanding.
Just as when Super Bowl football games take place, they begin on the
Thursday preceding the Sunday match and must have workers available to support
the process to accommodate hosting and party coordination. Ms. Hines’ telephone is (562) 889-7764, or email: cchristianhines@yahoo.com.
Claudia L. Jones,
Chief Operating Officer for West Angeles Community Development Corporation
provided a very interesting and important discussion on Domestic Violence that
effects most Americans in and out of the work place.
As a background, the West Angeles Church of God in Christ has a variety
programs that are bettering the community including the Community Development
Corporation empowerment outreach, affordable housing, homebuyer education, debt
counseling, and commercial real estate.
There is a new program for job placement in the entertainment field,
such as accounting, customer service, and telemarketing. Ms. Thrash is the program director.
The funding for the Empowerment Program did not receive new annual
allocation approval from the State of California. Although there is a staff reduction, the West Angeles CDC will
continue to participate with PCN meetings because it is a good organization.
Ms. Jones described
a number of statistics regarding domestic abuse that in many cases negatively
affect the productivity output in American jobs. Domestic violence can also hinder and create barriers to
employment. It is the number one under-reported
crime in America. The symptoms of
domestic violence are important to know so that people working in human social
services can intervene and offer help for men and women.
People who are victims of domestic violence stay in the abusive situation
usually from shame and fear. The abuser
is in control and the victim becomes dependent to the abuse. Domestic abuse crosses all ages, genders,
sexes, religions, and income levels.
Four million American women suffer some kind abuse, every fifteen
seconds another woman is abused, 3-4 million woman are battered each year, or 1
of 3 women are in a social, economic, verbal, and or physical abuse
environment.
Statistically, 95% of domestic abuse victims are women, 70% of annual
homicide victims are women, and 30% of homes suffer some kind of domestic
violence. Job training is difficult
when you are afraid which is why it is important to identify the signs, ask the
right questions, and make the right referral for help. Ms. Jones works with peer mediation and violence reduction among teens. She shared a great one-woman entertainment
show that is interactive with the audience to open the need to understand this
sickness.
Ms. Jones
provided a comprehensive handout to all PCN members in attendance about
domestic violence. The handout talks
the signs of seeming distant, jumpy, frighten, flinching when touched, bruises,
excessive drug and/or alcohol use, constant interruptions from spouse,
name-calling, disrespect, emotional abuse, control away from financial
resources or educational skills. The main thing is to allow the victim to make
the decision to seek help and respect their right to make the decision. Ms. Jones works with DART – Domestic Abuse Resource Team counselors who support
the Los Angeles Police Departments with domestic violence calls to talk with
victims to let them know that they are not alone. To inform them about safe processes and strategies like changing
locks, restraining orders, informing neighbors about the changes, and how to
get counseling. The main thing is
offering someone they can trust to help the victim make the choice to leave the
abusive situation.
Claudia Jones’ number is (323) 291-1472,
ext. 13, or email: cjones@westangelescdc.org
PCN Member Announcements:
Elainea
Robbins, Los Angeles Urban League, RELAY FOR LIFE Luminary Ceremony will take place on Saturday,
August 13 at 9:00 p.m. at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex, 5001 Rodeo Road, Los
Angeles, CA 90016.
Robert Hamm, Los Angeles Unified School District, full-time positions available Custodial, Grounds and Building work
available with the district.
Michael
Richardson, Los Angeles Unified School District, ten-week construction trade apprentice
training program--‘We Build.’
LaVonté
Jackson, Goodwill Industries-Long Beach, Kelly Home Care
services will hold recruitment for Caregivers, Certified Nursing Assistants and
Home Health Aides for full-time and part-time positions at the Goodwill
Carmelitos Workforce Development Office on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 from 10-12
pm.
Jean
Franklin, City of Refuge – Anchor of Hope Ministries, is coordinating and recruiting employers for a new contributors’
re-entry job fair in November 2005.
Francisco Segolia, La Casa, home ownership informational program at the South Los Angeles WorkSource
Center.
Debra
Deras, DES, free seminar on New Developments in Labor
Law at the Veterans Auditorium, Rotunda Room, 4117 Overland Ave, Culver City on
Thursday, July 21, 2005 from 8:30 AM to –11:00 AM.
Delinda Grayes, LAOIC, is seeking students for new training classes that are now open in retail sales and office
administration.
Frank Melli, JobStarts, Inc., is seeking students for entrepreneurial training program.
Our host for the next PCN meeting is the Los Angeles World Airports, on
Monday, September 12, 2005, from 10:00 AM – noon, at The
Flight Path Learning Center and
Museum, 6661 West Imperial Highway, Los Angeles, CA 90045. PCN
is seeking nominations for this
second annual award program entitled; choreographers of careers.
The awards program represents a special
recognition for some of the front line people who help shape and
motivate people to full employment and self-empowerment. In a geographical area that has considerably
more people than available jobs, it becomes more than a regular challenge to
place potential and qualified job applicants into livable wage positions. There has to be creativity and persistence
to help people seeking job opportunities in the Southern California area, which
is a special attribute of these notable job development program specialist who
are actually choreographers of careers.
Please submit your nomination to the Southland Business
Development Partnership attention, Dean Jones, by August 1, 2005. For more information please call (310) 637-7248.
For more
information about PCN go to: http://bizpartnership.biz/events.htm
JULY PCN meeting attendees:
Allyson Lavalais, Los Angeles
World Airports
Anita Wallace, Los Angeles Urban
League
Ava Smith-Moxin, Genesis 1 Foundation
Billy Williams, Business Training
Schools
Carla Cortez, Department of Public Social Services
Carlos E. Ruvalcada, Community
Centers, Inc.
Carolyn Hines, Hines Hospitality
Group
Christine Fisher, Computer Access
Center
Claudia Jones, West Angeles CDC
Danna Whittman, Beyond Shelter
Dean Jones, Southland Business
Development Partnership
Debra Deras, DES
Delinda Grayes, LAOIC
Dinah White, State of CA,
Employment Development Department
Elainea Robbins, Los Angeles Urban
League
Emma Velazquez, Union Bank of California
Francisco Segolia, La Casa
Frank Melli, JobStarts, Inc.
Gary Wright, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Gil Del Toro, ICDC College
Jean Franklin, City of Refuge –
Anchor of Hope Ministries
John Colville, Paramount Chamber of Commerce
Josie Starling, Wings of Refuge
LaVonté Jackson, Goodwill
Industries-Long Beach
Linda Marquez, Jewish Vocational Services
Magdy Makar, Business Training Schools
Maria Garcia, Jobstarts
Marilyn Horton, Business Training Schools
Marta Rodriguez, Charo Community
Development Corporation
Marvin Gomez, ICDC College
Michael Richardson, Los Angeles
Unified School District
Mindy Owes, RAFT, Inc.
Patricia Calloway, Calloway & Associates
Phyllis Mack, Association for
Better Living and Education (ABLE)
Rick Stoff, Chrysallis
Robert Hamm, Los Angeles Unified School District
Ronnie Pratts, Beyond Shelter
Sergio Velasquez, DPSS Grow
Susan Brown, Safe Passage
Vickie Ellington, Business Training Schools
Victoria Westerskov, SCROC
Vivian Hochschild, SASSFA
Whitney Daniel, Meaning & Purpose, Inc.
Yolanda France, Business Training Schools
This forwarded email is from the Southland Business Development Partnership,
700 North Bullis Road, Compton, CA 90221, (310) 637-7248, and facsimile
310.637.7412, www.BizPartnership.biz.
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