Podcasts about jotf

Matt and Harri fire up the old JOTF machine and listen to Matt's new solo piano album called "Let's Hold It Here".

Caryn York is the CEO of The Job Opportunity Task Force (JOTF). She's helping jobless young men and women become gainfully employed. Come get some information nuggets! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/silverbackchronicles/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/silverbackchronicles/support

To know sweet Harri is to love her. The tables are turned again this month on JOTF as Matt interviews Harri! We'll hear about her gifts as a writer and a lover-of-souls, her wicked-good sense of humor, and her fearless early career in California (including a job as a Hollywood tour bus driver = numerous Mr. T sightings). Thanks for joining us!

Music, radio and TV. They're some of Matt Weesner's earliest memories, and today he's blessed to be a public radio host and producer and a professional pianist. This month on JOTF the tables are turned: Harri interviews Matt! They talk about how he started playing the piano, his radio career, and what's up with those songs that won't stop playing in his head. And, she mockingly pretends to sit at his feet as he plays a couple of tunes.

 In this episode, you'll learn about the Job Opportunities Task Force, and the work that they are doing to get low wage workers access to high paying jobs. Discover initiatives including Project JumpStart, Baltimore's pre-apprenticeship program in the building trades, which helps participants become licensed electricians, plumbers, or carpenters. You'll also learn about some of the additional barries that low wage workers face when it comes to obtaining employment and how JOTF is advocating for policy changes in areas including housing and criminal record reform. 

ft. Caryn York, CEO of JOTF (Job Opportunities Task Force). On this episode Arinze sits down with Caryn to discuss the work of JOTF— whose mission is to help transition low wage workers to high wage jobs. Caryn explains what the “criminalization of poverty” is and why JOTF is working to eradicate it from our public policies (3:22). Part of that work includes reforming Maryland’s overwhelmingly punitive child support system and understanding how to put in place policies that actually benefit chilren and co-parents (7:40). Caryn talks about the solutions JOTF is supporting to help create more equitable child support guidelines (16:40) and explains how economic justice is inextricably linked to our criminal justice system (20:40). Next Arinze asks Caryn about the changes she’s seen in the General Assembly under new leadership (21:40) and their willingness to take a different approach to longstanding issues such as criminal record expungement (22:50)— particularly the elimination of the “unit rule” which is preventing tens of thousands of Marylanders accessing expungement. Caryn explains why these Marylanders cannot get dropped charges off of their criminal records— the reason will blow your mind (24:40). Arinze asks Caryn how this year’s “tough on crime” rhetoric is impacting JOTF’s work to reform the criminal justice system and decriminalize poverty (31:20). The conversation wraps with this question: “What should politicians seeking election or re-election in Baltimore pursue to help turn the City around?” (36:30).

Host Alexandre-Marie is joined by CR_908, CEO/Recording Artist of J.O.T.F records and co-host of Introverted Intuition Podcast for an in-depth interview and discussion on mental illness, dating, sex and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexandre-marie/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexandre-marie/support

Caryn York is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF), an independent, statewide nonprofit organization that promotes policies and programs to help low-wage workers advance to high-wage jobs. Caryn is JOTF’s youngest CEO and the first African American female to lead the twenty-three-year organization.

From Employ Prince George's Podcast-  In this episode, you'll learn about the Job Opportunities Task Force, and the work that they are doing to get low wage workers access to high paying jobs. Discover initiatives including Project JumpStart, Baltimore's pre-apprenticeship program in the building trades, which helps participants become licensed electricians, plumbers, or carpenters. You'll also learn about some of the additional barries that low wage workers face when it comes to obtaining employment and how JOTF is advocating for policy changes in areas including housing and criminal record reform. 

A new report by the nonprofit Job Opportunities Task Force dives deep into the ways the poor in Maryland are at greater risk of criminal charges or penalties. Caryn York, executive director of JOTF, says the poor face consequences that are blind to their inability to pay and make recommendations for reform.Read the report, ----The Criminalization of Poverty: How to Break the Cycle Through Policy Reform in Maryland----, here.

Our Maryland sits down with Caryn York, the Executive Director of the Jobs Opportunities Task Force, to talk about criminal justice reform in Maryland.

Our Maryland sits down with Delegate Luke Clippinger and Caryn York, the Executive Director of the Job Opportunities Task Force, to talk about paid sick leave in Maryland and how advocates are working to override Gov. Hogan's veto in January.