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about Vanessa. Vanessa represents our students perfectly. Vanessa came to us when college wasn't working for us because she had personal and family loss, and she felt a little lost. She felt like she needed something. She found the strive healthcare program. We connected her to career readiness, we connected her to occupational training, we connected her to all the supportive services that she needs. We want to bring that program here to Detroit to add to the amazing fabric of workforce systems that operate here out of Detroit already. Vanessa, once she graduated, she really started thriving from our program. She got a job in HR at Mount Sinai, one of the largest hospitals in New York, and then she continued to move on to additional jobs, and now she's working with people like her and her family as a financial patient coordinator. And this is just an example of the men of the over 80,000 people we've served across the country. And we just want you to be aware of our program. I'm going to turn it over to miles saying, just tell you a little bit more about you know, how we operate and what we're trying to do here in the city of Detroit. Thank you so much. 
you all for your time this morning. Why does our work matter? The US is facing a historic nationwide labor shortage, so even if all open positions in the country were filled, there would be at least 1 million jobs that would remain vacant and strive we're one of the nation's only workforce program that is backed by evidence based programming designed for populations that are facing multiple barriers. When our students come to us, about 86% of them are unemployed upon enrollment, about 83% of them receive some form of public assistance. 57% are housing insecure, and almost 50% are just as impacted, but upon completion of our program, 80% graduate, 75% attain employment, and 70% retain employment. In just one generation, we help carve out new futures for both our alumni and their families. We could go to the next slide. What strive provides is a pathway to possible. On the right hand side of the screen, you'll see our five pillar model, how we do this work, and the journey that each of our students follow. But what we provide is a pathway to life changing careers, opportunities, comprehensive, tuition free professional training, lifetime one on one, support and self empowerment for those who face societal barriers to advancement. I know we don't have a lot of time, but I just wanted to quickly share the 3p that strive believes in we believe in people, we believe in partnerships, and we believe in possibilities. For the strives roadmap to success. Again, I know we don't have a lot of time, but really quickly, each of our students goes through what we call our 10 to 12 weeks of active programming. But it doesn't end there. When they graduate our program, our students get support for their entire lives, whether it's financial wellness, digital literacy, and that program carries on as much or as for long as they would like. For our pathway, they start with career readiness, so getting them into the right mindset, getting ready to go back out into the workplace. Then they go to occupational training, so getting all the right credentials in skill on on demand, skills that are needed. They go to jump start and graduation. So they're preparing for what's next, interviewing, resume review. They go to job search. So we provide all the recruitment, all the things that they need to find that first job. And that ends our five pillar model. But that does not end our commitment to our students, because it's lifetime. So they go into our Alumni Services, where they can come back upskill, get new credentials, also just support life happens. We're there for our students from start until finish. Strive career pathways. So all of our pathways, we like to say, have pathways to high demand jobs. We're not just there to provide a job for someone. We're there to provide a career, something that has longevity, longevity that has mobility for them and 
their families, stackable credentials. Students can earn industry based certifications that not only guaranteed immediate job access, but also long term career growth. Work based learning opportunities, not just curriculum, but also just On Demand training, so when they graduate, they're ready to hit the ground running. Here are just some of our high demand industries, construction and skilled trades, healthcare and office administration, logistics and supply chain. We listed out all the occupations and certifications. Now we don't have a lot of time to care to cover them today, but just wanted you all to get a general sense of what each of our students do. So many of these buckets are so general, but they also allow our students to really thrive in whatever career paths that they would like our history and network. So we say Harlem roots, but national reach. We were founded like Jonathan mentioned a little over 41 years ago. So we primarily serve at New York City, but have branched out over the last couple of years. We were founded to really address chronic unemployment and poverty that really listed and lived in these underserved communities. However, since then, strive has grown to impact over 85,000 people across many cities in the United States, and our goal is to bring that here to Detroit. You so I will say one of the three Ps partnerships, we can do this work without our partners, and we always like to any chance we get uplift our partners and all the work that they do. So you can see on here. It's just a brief summary of some of our partners who either help our students through employment opportunities, either through funding or resources that they provide. So just wanted to give a shout out to all of our partners that helped make this work possible. And now I'm going to turn it back to my colleague to tell you about striving Detroit. So