Employment
GOALS: To educate employers on how hiring from non-traditional employment pools can be of benefit. Provide forums where employers, service providers and potential employees can collaborate on creative solutions to successful employment.
ACTIVITIES: The Hiring Well, Doing Good Project is a collaborative effort to provide educational events for employers about the how hiring from non-traditional employment pools strengthen the community and is good for the bottom line.
Events: December 6, 2018, January 24, 2019
“When employers Hire Well and are intentional about Doing Good, the community prospers in abundance as individuals earn their personal and financial stability: Outcomes and lives change, families leave behind system dependency, communities increase the local tax base, and hope sparks the freedom to dream the dream for Wake County families!”
Priorities – 5/23/2019
- Identify programs that have open seats.
- Service providers need to identify client pools to engage for programming.
- Educate/recruit employers on the benefits of Hiring Well, Doing Good.
- Offer/encourage on-boarding and client-retention services – this could be invaluable for employers.
Priorities – 3/28/2019
- Continue the Hiring Well Doing Good initiative. Adopt the current plan.
- Educate employers on EEOC guidelines.
- Emphasize Life Skills Training for participants to help ensure success.
- Seek out and foster apprenticeships and other opportunities to work and learn.
- Need to adapt programs to accommodate people in poverty/crisis who must have an income while they are learning.
Participating Organizations
- Advocates for Justice
- Carroll’s Kitchen
- Creative Management Staffing Services
- DHHS, Vocational Rehab
- DHHS, Division of the Blind
- Disability Rights NC
- DOC, Workforce Solutions
- Doing Good at Work NC
- Governor’s Office
- Jobs for Life
- NC DHHS, Food and Nutrition Employment and Training Program
- Passage Home
- Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
- StepUp Ministries
- Transformation Exchange
- US EEOC District Office
- Veterans Affairs
- Wake County Workforce Development
- Wake Technical College
Other Supporters
- Policy Advisor, Office of NC Governor Roy Cooper
- Disability Rights NC
- Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
- Criminal Law Attorney – Advocates for Justice & Disabilities
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