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Raising Incomes Commitee

OVERVIEW | STRATEGIES & ACTIVITIES | 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.

 

Next Meetings:(3rd Thursdays of odd months - 10:00 - 11:30 at 4C of Southern Indiana, 600 SE 6th St.)

 

For more information or to get involved, email Arin Norris, Co-Chair at richeyarin@gmail.com

Join the Raising Incomes Committee group on

 

Raising Incomes

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

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   

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

 

Forms

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

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

            Once Excel file is opened via internet, open a copy for editing to get a format that's useful to fill in.

            For technical assistance, please email the webmaster

Workforce Resource Guide (PDF)

Committee Info Slips

 

Research Tools

The Homeless in Evansville:  Current Jobs, Skills, Education and Training

- a snapshot of the working homeless in our community

Compiled by Marie Opatrny PhD, Department of Social Work, University of Southern Indiana, & Katrina Boyd, Master of Social Work Graduate Student Assistant

Homeless Services Council resources

Connecting People to Jobs: Neighborhood Workforce Pipelines

- Annie E. Casey Foundation

Toolkit for Connecting Supportive Housing Tenants to Employment

- Corporation for Supportive Housing

- Indiana Institute for Working Families

Supporting Work for Low-Income People with Significant Challenges

- The Urban Institute  summary

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