San Antonio Neighborhood Network

Oakland

Lower San Antonio Collaborative

Family Economic Success Workgroup

March 8, 2005

Group #1 Discussion: Result 1 – Strategy 1

Question 1: Who else needs to be in the Room…

1. To help accomplish 2005, 2007, 2010 Goals?

• contact employers (i.e. Nimen Ranch)
• Workforce Investment Board (WIB)
• Local one-stop operators, affiliates
• Adult Education Schools, Peralta College
• Other employer CBOs (i.e. East Bay Vietnamese)
• Labor organizations
• City of Oakland (Al Auletta)
• Faith-based organizations (i.e. Harbor House)

1. To provide more accurate information/data?

• School District
• Alameda County Welfare Agency (i.e. Social Services)
• State Department of Finance
• Worker’s Center
• University of California, Berkeley (i.e. School of Public Policy)
• Bay Area Construction Sector Intervention Collaborative (BACSIC)
• Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD)

1. To engage residents more effectively?

• Mujeres Unidas
• CRESE
• Family Independence Initiative (FII)
• Head Start Sites
• English Center for International Women
• Community organizers (i.e. EBAYC)
• Oakland Community Organizations (i.e. St. Anthony’s)
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
• Adult Education
• Churches
• City Council Staff
• Other CBOs and county welfare agencies
• CalWorks staff and contractors
• County Access to Public Health, Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD)
• County Outreach Committees

Question 2: What do we want the next District 2 Councilmember to support?*

• more employee training funds to LSA
• community benefits agreements as policy to create more opportunity for local hiring
• support strategies to support mixed legal status residents to work
• advocacy of business attraction and in turn creation of more jobs
• increase in community credit union
• city investment, larger portion of cap money to neighborhood (i.e. EITC)
• investment in local CBOs to do economic development rather than just relying on city (i.e. maintenance, work force development)
• city employment data made available to neighborhood

*listed in order by number of votes - the first having the most votes, the last having zero votes

Group #2