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Raising Incomes Committee

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Overview

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Strategies & Activities

Raising Incomes Subcommittee

Self-Sufficiency Subcommittee

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Resources

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            Inter-agency Referral Form

            Workforce Resource Guide

            Research Tools

            Homeless Services Council resources

 

OVERVIEW

 

GAP:             There are a significant number of residents who do not have the skills or the opportunity to obtain and maintain living wage positions.

GOAL:           Increase opportunities for low-wage/low-skill workers to obtain the necessary skills and employment to earn a living wage.

OUTCOME:    Vanderburgh County residents will have improved access to community services, education and training leading to employment resulting in self-sufficiency.

 

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STRATEGIES & ACTIVITIES

Raising Incomes strategies in Destination: Home (complete narrative of 4 strategies)

 

Raising Incomes Subcommittee

download: Strategies addressed by Raising Incomes Committee (narrative of those listed below)

 

Strategy 1 Improve Coordination of Employment Services

Activities:

  1. Develop flow chart of referral process and current community services

  2. Train staff on referral flow chart

  3. Collaboration between homeless outreach programs and Community Employment Services

  4. Determine how to use HMIS (Hoosier Management Information System)

 

Strategy 2 Establish Training and Employment Options

Activities:

1.      Determine how homeless individuals currently access the workforce development system

2.      Use results to improve access

3.      Assess which industries need workers to tailor training

4.      Have housing programs develop IEPs or Self Sufficiency Plan,

           

Strategy 4 Address the Employment Needs of Offenders, Youth and the currently “unemployable”

Activities

1.      Seek alternate funding for offender programs

2.      Develop on-site independent living programs at area youth homes

3.      Research “Transitional Jobs” program

See also Discharge Planning Coalition and Homeless Youth Coalition

 

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Self-Sufficiency Subcommittee

download: Strategy addressed by Self-Sufficiency Subcommittee (narrative of that listed below)

 

Strategy 3 Establish a Wages to Allow for Self-Sufficiency

Activities:

1.      Identification of champion

2.      Advocacy

3.      Education of public

 

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RESOURCES

Committee Info Slips

Strategies addressed by Raising Incomes Committee

Strategy addressed by Self-Sufficiency Subcommittee

Forms

Inter-agency referral form (PDF)    Referral form-annotated (PDF)

Inter-agency referral form (Excel)  Referral form-annotated (Excel)

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Workforce Resource Guide (PDF)

 

Research Tools

Connecting People to Jobs: Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines

- Annie E. Casey Foundation

Toolkit for Connecting Supportive Housing Tenants to Employment

- Corporation for Supportive Housing

Is Indiana Getting its Fair Share, 2007:  Federal Programs Available to Help Working Hoosier Families

- Indiana Institute for Working Families

Supporting Work for Low-Income People with Significant Challenges

- The Urban Institute  summary

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