NBC Bay Area's Coverage of UCSF's Community Internship Orientation Program (COIP) held Friday, October 14.
COIP ran successfully from 1999 to 2006, graduating 100 participants and placing 85 percent of them into jobs at UCSF. After a hiatus, in 2010, the program was revived by UCSF and JVS in recognition of the potential match between the high demand for administrative workers and high poverty and unemployment in some San Francisco neighborhoods.
This year,18 women and one man received their diplomas, taking a step closer to their goal of getting a full-time job.