R-37 Pasco reentry jobs and ROI update

4:53Thank you. Very good. Okay. And now we'll head from David Engel, R thirty-seven. Pasco reentry jobs and ROI update.

5:05Good afternoon, David Engel, Planning and Economic Growth Director. At the board's uh workshop last Wes uh Tuesday we had an action uh agenda action item to respond to a request to appear here to discuss um return on investment as it relates to the job skills and training program that's funded here through the county.

5:28So um I took the opportunity to just focus on three items that we do when we deliver uh job skills training. One is the uh career source. Job Skills Training Program, it's called PASCO reentry. What it does is it upskills uh currently employed county residents or gets people back in the labor force that are unemployed, whether they be former incarcerated individuals or people that have lost their job. It's highly successful. The other area that we do we focus on is um is advanced

5:59manufacturing training through AM skills, through apprenticeships and direct assistance to businesses. As you'll see in the metrics in a little bit, that that is getting traction and making a big impact on our community. And lastly, the Pasco Economic Development Council provides a Direct Connect, which is a, it's almost like an online dating um service. Bringing employers and people looking for jobs together so it's like a clearinghouse and that's been very good. And all three of these

6:29programs operate collaboratively. They're not functioning independently. There's a there's a a nexus there to get better outcomes working together. Now I just wanted to focus on the reentry program because that that focuses directly on people in the disadvantaged population, homelessness, and uh and also people that are coming out of prison, et cetera. And it's been really effective. Uh to date, we've had uh enormous traction on the program. We've had six

6:59hundred and thirty-eight People go through it since uh 2018. Um vulnerable disadvantaged are 86% of the people that a attend this um this training program. That's eighty six percent of the people there. And the miraculous and remarkable number and metric here is that 97% of the people going through the system retain their jobs over a year. So there's traction there. They're just not going taking a job and leaving three months later. And if you see that metric

7:29there, um $41,900 is the average since its inception, but it's it's really gone up in the last year. It's now forty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars, so it's a seven thousand dollar increase. And um as as Wages go up

7:49program are tracking that. Lastly, uh 229 homeless people since 2019 are trained skilled and off the street, which has a tremendous impact on an ROI because it there's a lot of indirect costs associated with homelessness that the county bears. And here is the uh the ROI sheet which is really um Very illustrative. So to calculate the ROIs between two different programs, that's AMSkills and Career Source, we had to take somewhat of a unique

8:19methodology because each one of them tracked their ROIs differently. So what we did was we looked at the impact of the employment side. We didn't look at direct and indirect, but just straight benefits to the local economy based on employment. And Career Source um is doing a great job. They used to be their overall average is $9,000 in a placement. They're down to $7,000 now, so they've been doing cost effectively, reducing the the cost of training and getting it into an output area. And

8:49their ROI is $13.13 for every dollar we give them. And that's that's exceptional. Uh Amskill's uh same methodology looking at the impact of jobs and wages, and you would note that Amskill's uh average jobs are higher because they're manufacturing jobs. Their ROI on placed individuals is 22 times. And you can see that they have uh 158 direct placements since we've been funding them since 2014. So that's my presentation. Um, just wanted to give you a

9:20sense of what we're doing, what we continue to do, with uh very high ROIs to the community. Thank you.

9:26So David, thank you for that. And a couple of things that stick out that uh and I'll get to the RI number in a second, but Ninety-seven percent of the people have a job after being trained after a year. That's right, sir. That's a phenomenal rate. Um And that income of an average income now, forty-eight thousand dollars for a manufacturing job, another great program with Amskills as well.

9:47Yes, and and Amskills has a fifty-one percent retention rate, and that's that's excellent too. Anything over fifty percent is higher than the industry standard for job skill strength. Yeah.

9:56And again, thirteen to one uh for career shows and twenty two to one for AM skills as far as return on investment. That's correct, sir. Uh I tell you this data is great and I think it'll help us hopefully in the future. Any other thoughts or questions?

10:09Um I I'm curious about that um Fifty one percent employed, but Anyway, I'll

10:18we get that right out of the data that Amskills reports to us.

10:22I thought it was harder than that. Um But I love the uh return on investment. Um twenty two is huge, yeah.

10:30Well we can only get better.

10:32Yeah, absolutely.

10:33No. Okay. Thank you. Thank

10:35you very much.