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Affordable Housing Crisis Webinar
Bay Area Impact: Affordable Housing CrisisA discussion on the implications of the shortage of affordable housing for the economy, education, business, equity and the average…
RegisterIt will be many months before the COVID vaccine is widely distributed. Until then, heeding the advice of public health officials offers us the best hope of stemming the spread of this deadly pandemic, reopening our businesses and economy and restoring the millions of jobs we’ve lost. The Bay Area Council remains focused on emerging from this crisis stronger, more resilient and more equitable than before. See what the Council and our members are doing and find helpful resources through our COVID-19 Resource & Response Network.
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Bay Area Economic Snapshot
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Bay Area Economic Snapshot
Member Spotlight
Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California’s mental health BlueSky initiative wraps up a successful first year When Blue Shield of California launched the BlueSky initiative last year, the goal was to figure out ways to boost mental health support for middle- and high-school students in California. Battling through a global pandemic and school closures, the first year of the program was nothing short of a success – with more than 3,800 counseling sessions recorded and over 600 referrals made. Blue Shield says year two will be even better.
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Featured Research
New Report: Apprenticeships in the Tech Sector
Updating a Traditional Model for the 21st Century
Apprenticeships have long served as a strategy to help people gain access to higher wage careers in industries such as construction and trades. Many technology companies have begun to explore adapting the on-the-job training apprenticeship model for the tech sector. This has created an emerging opportunity to leverage tech apprenticeships as a strategy to diversify the Bay Area’s tech workforce while helping underserved communities’ access high-wage jobs in the region’s tech sector. This report sets forth a set of recommendations to successfully scale apprenticeships in the region based on an examination of the operations, successes, and failures of tech companies in the Bay Area with existing apprenticeship programs.
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