San Antonio opening enrollment for $200 million job training initiative on Monday
Michael Ramsey, left, executive director of the City of San Antonio?•s Workforce Development Office, speaks during a February press conference to promote the Ready to Work jobs training program. He’s flanked by San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh, center, and Mayor Ron Nirenberg.The city of San Antonio’s ambitious, $200 million Ready to Work job training initiative will open for enrollment Monday, offering lower-income residents a pathway to a college degree or training certificate.
“We know that one family who raises children in poverty, the exponential impact that has on successive generations. And if we can flip that cycle for one family, that will have a profound effect on a neighborhood, on a community,” Nirenberg said this month. “We are doing something that people for a long time have been saying needs to be done.”
So-called wraparound services, such as career counseling and case management, and the emergency assistance cash are designed to help participants overcome emergencies without dropping out of training. When it was pitched to voters in 2020, Ready to Work was expected to put 40,000 residents through training and into better-paying jobs using the $154 million in sales tax revenue then expected over the life of the program. The city increased funding after sales tax revenues came in higher than expected this year.
Nearly 3,000 people have completed training through Train for Jobs, and more than 1,600 residents have found new jobs through the program, according to city data released Thursday. Train for Jobs has been running for more than 18 months and 638 graduates have landed jobs since the start of this year. Employed graduates earn $15 an hour on average.
The city also hired a researcher at the University Texas at San Antonio to track how Ready to Work is performing and make recommendations. Mike Villareal, head of the Urban Education Institute and a former representative in the Texas House, will lead the program evaluation.
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