Pathways to Employment
Learning skills for a job in food service at the New Leaf Bakery in Spokane, WA
Meaningful and sustainable employment is the key to creating and maintaining housing stability. Unemployment, underemployment, and low wages relative to rent burden put millions of families at risk of homelessness and are frequent causes of homelessness.
At the same time, individuals experiencing homelessness face obstacles to finding and maintaining employment. As a result, connecting people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness with job training and placement programs is critical to nsuring they have the tools they need for long-term stability and success. Further, facilitating access to work supports like childcare subsidies and transportation assistance can help increase the likelihood that individuals will be able to retain employment.
Below users will find information and resources related to
- Job training and placement programs for individuals experiencing homelessness
- Improving access to mainstream workforce programs and services
- Adult education services and subsidies
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Use of work supports and incentives to increase employment retention and stability
Programs
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)
The Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP) helps Veterans experiencing homelessness gain meaningful employment and increases ...
Incarcerated Veterans’ Transition Program
The Incarcerated Veterans’ Transition Program provides case management and employment counseling services to Veterans who have ...
Job Corps
The Job Corps Program is designed as a holistic career development program for low-income young adults ages 16-24 to complete an ...
Stand Downs
Stand Downs are events that take place around the country that last one to three days and provide assistance to Veterans experiencing ...
Veterans’ Workforce Investment Program
The Veterans’ Workforce Investment Programs provides funds to assist Veterans experiencing homelessness in gaining meaningful ...
YouthBuild
The YouthBuild program provides funds to non-profit organizations to provide an alternative education pathway and teach occupational ...
Related Research
Building Bridges to Self-Sufficiency: Improving Services for Low-Income Working Families
Jennifer Miller March 2004 In 2001, MDRC and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices began an extensive ...
Next Step: Jobs Promoting Employment for Homeless People
David A. Long and Jean M. Amendolia September 2003 This report—“Promoting Employment for Homeless People” ...
Serving the homeless through the One-Stop system: A case study
Jennifer Henderson-Frakes June 2004 In the summer of 1999, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded Social Policy Research ...
Creating Hope Through Employment for People Who are Homeless or in Transitional Housing American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Joe Marrone January 2005 Persons with significant disabilities, especially those with problems relating to mental illness and/or ...
Recognizing Work as a Priority in Preventing or Ending Homelessness
Gary Shaheen and John Rio July 2007 The literature speaks to the importance of employment in the lives of homeless individuals and ...
Barriers to employment for people with schizophrenia
Robert A. Rosenheck 2006 There is growing interest in identifying and surmounting barriers to employment for people with ...
Recognizing Work as a Priority in Preventing or Ending Homelessness
Gary Shaheen and John Rio July 2007 The literature speaks to the importance of employment in the lives of homeless individuals and ...
Barriers to Employment for People With Schizophrenia
Robert Rosenheck, Douglas Leslie, Richard Keefe, Joseph McEvoy, Marvin Swartz, Diana Perkins, Scott Stroup, John K. Hsiao, and Jeffrey ...
Cognitive and clinical predictors of work outcomes in clients with schizophrenia receiving supported employment services: 4-year follow-up
Susan R. McGurk 2006 In order to evaluate whether the long-term provision of supported employment services reduced the impact of ...
Evaluation of Disability Employment Policy Demonstration Programs
Lynn Elinson, William D. Frey, Martha A. Beemer, and Beth Slotman June 1, 2005 Evaluation of Disability Employment Policy ...
The Meaning of Computers to a Group of Men Who Are Homeless
Kathleen Swenson Miller, Stacey Bunch-Harrison, Brett Brumbaugh, Rekha Sankaran Kutty and Kathleen FitzGerald April 2005 The ...
Social Support, Drug Use, and Employment Among Low-Income Women
Victoria L. Brown and Micah A. Riley January 2005 This study examined social support and its association with employment, income, ...
Creating Hope Through Employment for People Who are Homeless or in Transitional Housing American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Joe Marrone January 2005 Persons with significant disabilities, especially those with problems relating to mental illness and/or ...
Serving the homeless through the One-Stop system: A case study
Jennifer Henderson-Frakes 2004 In the summer of 1999, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded Social Policy Research Associates ...
Building Bridges to Self-Sufficiency: Improving Services for Low-Income Working Families
Jennifer Miller 2004 In 2001, MDRC and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices began an extensive examination ...
Next Step: Jobs Promoting Employment for Homeless People
David A. Long and Jean M. Amendolia September 2003 This report—“Promoting Employment for Homeless People” ...
Impact of public support payments, intensive psychiatric community care and program fidelity on employment outcomes for people with severe mental illness
Sandra D. Resnick 2003 This study explored the relationship of public support payments, intensive psychiatric community care ...
Barriers to work among recipients of housing assistance
Mary Corcoran 2003 This article describes how current and former welfare recipients receiving housing assistance differ from those ...
Next Step Jobs--Promoting employment for homeless people: A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Next Step Jobs Initiative
David A. Long 2003 This report—“Promoting Employment for Homeless People” —by Abt Associates demonstrates, ...
Vocational outcomes among formerly homeless persons with severe mental illness in the ACCESS program
Judith A. Cook 2001 This study examined the vocational outcomes of 4,778 formerly homeless individuals with severe mental illness ...
Ethnographic findings from the Washington, DC vocational services study
Ernest Quimby 2001 Based on a 20-month period of participant observations and interviews of persons receiving services, employment ...
Employment and Training for America’s Homeless: Best Practices Guide
Susan Kessler Beck 1997 The Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program (JTHDP) was authorized under Section 731 of the ...
Employment and Training for America’s Homeless: Final Report on the Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program
John W. Trutko 1998 The purpose of this report is two-fold: (1) to analyze the results of the Job Training for the Homeless ...
Impacts of the Project NetWork Demonstration: Final Report
Robert J. Kornfeld 1999 The Social Security Administration (SSA) initiated Project NetWork in 1991 to test case management and ...
A randomized clinical trial of supported employment for inner-city patients with severe mental disorders
Robert E. Drake 1999 This study evaluated the effectiveness of two approaches to vocational services for persons with severe ...
Employment outcomes for clients with severe mental illness in a PACT model replication
Robert E. Becker 1999 Outcomes of clients with severe mental illness in a psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation program ...
Resources for Accessing Technical Assistance
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
http://www.dol.gov/vets/grants/hvrpnat.htm Department of Labor, Veterans Employment and Training Services The National Technical ...
