00:00We're focused on the changes that things that can be done, should be done, and are being done
00:05at the state and local level around criminal justice reform. We will be talking about problems
00:13and issues that exist. We will also be talking about solutions and things that progress we have
00:19made. We will hear from members of government, elected officials, staff, some folks who work in
00:27the judicial branch, some folks who work for the mayor's administration, some folks who
00:31work for city council, and some folks who are just activists that are on the ground getting
00:36the work done. We will also hear from justice impacted individuals as well. I am pleased
00:42to be here. We are in city council caucus room, and folks sitting here always feel the weight
00:48of governing here. The purpose of this is to examine things that are going right, things
00:54that are going wrong, things that we can do better. We want to be solution-oriented,
00:58but we're not going to shy away from talking about and articulating the problems that exist
01:03as well. The reality is we're going to create good policy. We have to benefit from the ideas
01:09that we're going to our dog. OK again, on the slide. My transition student and a technician
01:14from the training institute. At 9, my family employed. I got myself a lot of trouble, back
01:22and forth for almost 9AHTEN in 10 years. And before I turned 17, it was the young lady who
01:29the community and made me understand that this is wrong.
01:34At 17, I decided to get out on the street and take advantage of the opportunities I
01:40saw that could be some possibilities.
01:42I got my GED and five years later I graduated from Junk Surveyor University in the top 10
01:49percent of my class.
01:50I'm not saying anything to brag on me, but just to show it, but what we're doing now
01:54with the Technician Training Institute is doing the same thing with some really strong
01:59minds out there, people who they really do know the math.
02:03They know, and we teach them a sixteenth of an inch, one sixteenth of an inch is a thing
02:09that builds the whole world of it, unless you're a machinist, and it gets you down to a
02:14hint of thousands.
02:16We train them in masonry, concrete masonry, electrical systems that they can work in the back end
02:23of the manufacturing.
02:24We train them in framing to build up homes.
02:27And we train them so that the skills are so strong that it's a shoo-in for any job you
02:31can imagine that's in their field and crossroads.
02:36It's a really important thing to understand that we're working to link the business community
02:42with the community itself because there's a lot of opportunities out there.
02:47We spend quite a few dollars of our own money to help kids on Saturdays.
02:52We're expanding our facilities by 15,000 square feet.
02:57We bought that whole block on 1,900-footers right out there.
03:02And we're about to do another expansion, 25,000-square-foot expansion upon 3,900 drive out there.
03:10So it's important work, and it has a big need and a big demand.
03:13Almost half of our clients are referred by another half of our clients every time they hear about us.
03:19Every time they hear about us, Scotland, we're the best I've ever seen, and we're thankful for this opportunity
03:24to give the word out and for people to know what's going on and free to stop out at any given time
03:30to see what we're doing.
03:31We'll see people really hustling and bustling to learn skills, to be able to get out there
03:37and to make it more, they can make more skills, make more opportunities happen from selling money, career, family, everything that they can out on the street.
03:49That's a win-win.
03:50And now Trades, as we all know, that's a big name in the community that carries more weight now than it ever did before.
03:59You can't have anything, you can't have an idea unless you have a skilled lady.
04:05You can't even rebuild a city without having a skilled lady.
04:08And you can't repair a city without having a skilled lady.
04:11Those are three important facts to know.
04:13So we thank you once again, and please, you know, our website is ptt.edu.
04:19It's pretty easy to remember.
04:21And for anybody who wants to come through at any given time, we're open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
04:30No, absolutely.
04:32Sheriff Blau and the Sheriff's Office partners with anyone that's willing to help our young people.
04:38And I really appreciate the program that you just said, and they've spent some time to introduce this.
04:45And the Sheriff Blau's leadership, we're exploring the opportunity to have a Sheriff's Explorers program.
04:51To reach the kids from 14 to 19, given that they graduate from the program, they have a career pathway to introducing the Deputy Sheriff.
05:01However, if that's not something that they're interested in, they can also have life skills to go to other opportunities.
05:09What a lot of people don't know about the Sheriff's Office is a lot of our deputies are CEO trained to transport prisoners to court facilities.
05:17And that is a certification we can get under this program.
05:20So we're thinking about a 19-year-old young man or young woman with a CDL license who may not want to go to higher education, but is coming up with a CDL certification.
05:31And we know how we're well-paying that job is, so I think it's just a perfect opportunity to introduce that to the band.
05:39Yeah, it's really important that what we've seen is, I have guys who have been in prison for 10 years, or more, to come to our school.
05:49And they come in on office and cry.
05:52It's really amazing.
05:54They cry because they say, you're going to put us more opportunities than everybody thought we would do in management.
06:01We give them transportation every week, and they can use that transportation to go anywhere day or night and weekend.
06:08We give them food, food to take home also.
06:12And we give them counseling services, and we let them know that getting these skills, you actually unbundle your opportunity in the society that we live in at a very basic level.
06:26And it's one of the things that I've found for myself is that every business and every leadership, especially around this table, is very important.
06:37And I'm really so happy to be included in this with our team here, Donald Jackson, which was a business partner and Nicole Powers at the same time.
06:46Right?
06:47It's that everybody can contribute something.
06:51If we train people on things, it takes only a few hours to learn a very important tree, some very specific tree.
06:59And by the time they have these stacked skills when they leave out, they have skills that can grow and qualify for working in welding.
07:10We have the largest welding school on the entire east coast right here in Philadelphia.
07:15We have the only programs that all the unions accept are graduates.
07:20And it's only a six month program, it's not a year, it's not two years, it's not six months out of your life to really increase the value that you bring back to the community and help somebody else.
07:34We love it.
07:54We love it.
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