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Learning Community Workgroups
Employment
"Work
to End Homelessness:
Linking Systems for Employment Outcomes"
August 10-11, 2006 | Minneapolis, MN
Workgroup Objectives
- Understand the role of mainstream workforce investment, behavioral
health, and housing/homeless assistance systems in preventing and addressing
homelessness through employment
- Identify specific funding strategies – such as maximizing Federal
and State funding, renewable funding sources for providers, and strategies
for braiding resources – to meet the variety and intensity of services
needed by homeless job seekers
- Identify strategies to link mainstream workforce investment, behavioral
health, and housing/homeless assistance systems to address systemic
barriers and improve cross-system data sharing and planning for the
purpose of increasing vocational outcomes among people experiencing
homelessness
- Identify evidence-based practices and models that help people who
are homeless choose, get, keep, and advance in the type of job they
want
- Provide a peer-focused opportunity to learn and develop targeted
strategies for linking the Workgroup activities to the work of the State
Policy Academy Teams.
Specifically, Workgroup participants identified "barriers and challenges,"
"opportunities and promising practices," "strategies,"
and "what we need" around the following topical areas:
(1) Linking Systems, (2) Implementation of Promising Practices, and
(3) Financing Employment and Supportive Strategies.
States/Territories in Attendance
American Samoa (AS), Hawaii (HA), Maryland (MD), Maine (ME), Michigan
(MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire
(NH), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Puerto Rico (PR), Rhode Island (RI),
Utah (UT), Virginia (VA- unable to attend at the last minute), and Washington
(WA).
Workgroup Documents,
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