Vocationalizing the Home Front: Promising Practice in Place-based Employment
Description:
This report provides a bridge between the now complete Next Step: Jobs initiative and CSH’s current interest in a new generation of place-based employment strategies. By documenting and celebrating successful and
innovative employment practices in urban communities around the country, the report attempts to foster creative thinking in the private, public and non-profit sectors about new ways to engage hard-to-serve populations
in supportive housing and elsewhere. The success and variety of supportive housing jobs programs has made place-based employment strategies increasingly attractive to community development corporations, shelter providers, and even some public housing authorities. Federal and state vocational rehabilitation programs have also begun to accept supportive
housing providers as vendors, increasing available funding and expanding potential clientele. These evolving networks, combined with the promising policy shifts embodied in the Workforce Investment Act and the Ticket to
Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act, suggest that place-based employment can take an even more prominent role in the decade to come. (Authors)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2000
Location:
New York, NY