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  • Choosing Who We Work With

    Zaddy Solutions is a staffing firm promoting diversity and inclusion by focus specifically on the LGBTQ community. The firm provides mentorship, education, and guidance.

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  • In the wake of bill, Sacramento County works to break the link between homelessness and ‘aged-out' foster youth

    In California, youth in the foster system can continue to receive support and services for three years after they've "aged out" as long as they enroll in school or find a job. Participants work with a social worker to create a transition plan and develop new life skills such as budgeting and job searching, and one study found that fewer youth became homeless and more completed high school or enrolled in college after participating in the extension program.

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  • L.A. Jobs Program Creates Opportunities for Employment, Stability After Incarceration

    Playa Vista Jobs’ Hatch Program is a three-phase program that helps people who were formerly incarcerated and recently released have a smooth reentry and find stable employment in the construction industry. The program begins with getting participants to open their minds to change and emotional healing followed by 500 hours of hands-on construction training in a stable environment, including regular meals. At the end of the program participants receive help securing employment.

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  • Paid training, tuition assistance may be key to solving New York's nursing home staffing crisis

    In an effort to boost staff and retain current healthcare workers, Catholic Health and McGuire Group's nursing homes are working with D’Youville University to fund the education of those interested in becoming a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Participants are paid for their time spent training and taking courses and are guaranteed a job once they complete the program. Catholic Health and the McGuire Group hired 29 CNAs from the program in 2022 across its nine nursing homes in the Western part of the state.

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  • Salem looks to solution-based housing for those experiencing homelessness

    Micro-shelters with on-site case managers give people experiencing homelessness a stable place to live while connecting them to medical care and job opportunities.

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  • Zimbabwe's women-only rangers fight poachers and poverty

    Akashinga Unit, a woman-only rangers group, gives women in Zimbabwe the opportunity to earn a good salary and feel empowered while preventing poaching.

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  • Reimagining a Differently-Abled World

    Riziki Source helps people with disabilities access job opportunities through their disability-friendly website.

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  • Are community jobs the solution for Missouri's sheltered workshops?

    Even as several states banned subminimum wages for disabled workers and adopted versions of the "employment-first" legislation in the country, the Center for Human Services became an anomaly when it closed its sheltered workshop programs in Missouri where they find immense support. In the last five years, the non-profit has focused, instead, on helping adults with disabilities gain employment in traditional jobs in their own communities and earn minimal wages.

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  • Making IDPs dream of moving out of camps possible

    The Skilled Women Initiative trains women trains displaced women living in camps on various skills they can use to make money and find jobs, empowering them to one day leave the camps. The initiative has trained about 700 people in skills like textile upcycling, crochet, sewing, and soap making. It also educates those in the program on how to develop a business plan to sell their goods and services and connects them with job referrals outside of the camps.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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