The program is expected to place its first cohort this fall.
Santa Clara County is on the path to launch a program later this year to aid caregivers looking to return to the workforce. But the genesis for the idea has been simmering in Board President Susan Ellenberg’s mind now for decades.
It’s an issue that Ellenberg, who proposed the initiative, experienced firsthand as a soon-to-be mother in the mid ’90s. At the time, she had only been working as an attorney for three years. When she let her boss know she was pregnant, she was told it would be a “disaster” for her career. The county is still in the midst of nailing down what positions will be open for the program as it works through its current budget and will be working with the Health and Hospitals Department, the County Executive’s Office, the Social Services Agency and the Technology Services and Solutions Department, Staff said.
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