Program participant Caleb West said the Travis County summer employment program helped him develop workplace communication and teamwork skills and connected him to opportunities that could continue beyond the summer. "It gives you better opportunity, more opportunities to life," West said.

Participant Deshaun Dixon, 50, said the program reinforced basic workplace skills and recalled an early job experience that shaped his approach to teamwork. "My first job, I was 14 years old at the time. I was working with Southwest Keys," Dixon said, adding that he made friends and learned management and teamwork skills.

Winnie Hagizin Island, who said she worked last year at Travis County Health and Human Services, credited job coaches with helping participants navigate challenges. "The job coaches really made an impact," Hagizin Island said. "They were there to help me and just really walk me through anything I had trouble with."

Speakers described concrete benefits: improved communication, practice asking questions, and ongoing contact with employers. West said the program can lead to continued work during the school year or after graduation. "You can even after, like, even after you finish through the throughout the summer, it can still offer you this job, during the school year or after you graduate," he said.

The transcript is a short series of participant introductions and testimonials. It does not record a formal presentation by a named board or agency, nor does it include motions or votes. One participant identified Travis County Health and Human Services as a past workplace; the transcript does not specify who organized the session or whether it was part of a larger public meeting.

The comments provide firsthand, individual impressions of the summer employment experience rather than programmatic data such as budget, enrollment counts or formal outcomes. No formal actions or next procedural steps are recorded in the transcript.