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Support Youth and Families

Goal 1: Partner with Local Organizations to Educate and Mentor
Objective 2: Retain Arlington Graduates and Improve Department Recruitment Pools
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
SYF Intern Recruitment and Intern placement Shared Services (Human Resources)
1.2.1 Placement Expansion
Summary:

In July of 2015, the City started an Internship program Intern Totals
modeled after the successful Volunteer program. The 60
Internship program utilizes the relationships built with
local schools to source future talent for the City. This 40
is done through partnering relationships with the
schools, staff, and students. 20

The FY 2019 Internship project will continue to forge 0
new relationships with current and new school 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
systems. This will allow the City to grow our qualified
applicant pool and will allow the intern to find what FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019
best matches their career plans. The City will track the

progress of this program through the following:
 Number of Interns per Quarter st nd rd th
 Number of Interns per Department Department 1 Qtr. 2 Qtr. 3 Qtr. 4 Qtr.
 Participating Schools CAO 1 0 0 0
1
COMLA
0
0
0
 Number of Interns Hired
F i r e 1 0 0 0
Housing 1 5 2 1
Update: H R 0 0 0 1
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As of the 4 quarter FY 2019, the City had 39 paid
and unpaid interns. The participating schools this I T 3 2 3 2
Library 2 10 12 7
semester are Martin High School, Steven F. Austin
University, University of North Texas, Texas Woman O O C 0 1 1 0
University, Sam Houston State, Friends University, OSI 0 0 7 7
University of Texas Dallas, Texas Christian University, Parks & Rec 4 4 4 3
and The University of Texas at Arlington, University of Planning 4 13 7 6
Tennessee at Martin. Police 1 3 7 8
P u b l i c W o r k s 2 1 1 0
During FY 2019 we had one intern that was hired as a Water 3 3 3 3
full time Graduate Engineer in Planning and Total 22 42 47 39
Development Services.

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