Next Door: A Concept Paper for Place-Based Employment Initiatives
Description:
This report explores the applicability of place-based employment strategies tested in supportive housing to other buildings and neighborhoods in need of enhanced employment opportunities for local residents. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the report explores transferring the lessons learned from a three-year supportive housing employment program to the neighborhoods 'next door.' At base are the lessons learned from CSH's three-year, three-city Next Step: Jobs initiative, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and involving 21 local supportive housing providers. The paper hypothesizes that the strategies that enabled the formerly homeless and disabled tenants of supportive housing to find meaningful employment can be extended to people in the surrounding neighborhoods as well. A program model is proposed in addition to a literature review and extensive interviews with nonprofit providers across the country. (Authors)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
1998
Location:
New York, NY