Workforce Development
Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
2025 Youth Maritime Career Launch
Extension Order 2024-11
October 8, 2024
Item No. 8d
Meeting Date: Oct. 8, 2024
Background
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• Established by Commission Orders 2022-02 and 2022-05 authorizing OEDI
to manage this project from April 2022 to Dec. 2024 with a budget of $4.1M
to support maritime-focused career launch opportunities.
• Youth Maritime Career Launch (YMCL), has provided a guided pathway to
entry-level maritime careers for young adults (18-24) furthest away
from opportunity.
Outcomes
• 40 Youth Maritime Career Launch enrollments
• 25 Training completions
• 21 Internship placements
• $19.54 Hourly wage
Demographics
• 72% BIPOC
• 15% Women
• 13% Non-binary
Youth Maritime Career Launch Order 2024-11
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This current order expires Dec. 31, 2024. Port staff and community partners require more time to evaluate program
effectiveness and deliver services. OEDI proposes an extension of YMCL for an additional year until Dec. 31,
2025. Extending YMCL will provide the Port with time to test modifications, such as:
• Increase Participant Preparedness
Prepare YMCL interns with post-secondary education prior to YMCL internship start date. (Order 2022-02)
examples include:
- Boot Camps
- Pre-Apprenticeships
- Additional trainings, certifications & qualifications (i.e., TWIC, MMC, SCTW, OSHA 10, sea time accumulation)
• Refine Youth Maritime Career Launch
- Increase involvement of employers with in-demand occupations.
- Re-focus on DEI training for employers and management.
- Streamline at-sea and shoreside collaboration between Maritime Blue and Urban League.
• Expand beyond 18-24 year olds
Include up to 30% of 2025 funds for adults over 24.
- Focus on near-Port communities, structurally excluded, native communities, re-entry population and veterans.
- Internships remain for youth (18-24) only.
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Thank you to our 2024 partners!
