Employment Services

The Vendor is required to provide employment services to adults who have recently experienced homelessness and are enrolled in an agency housing project.
- The goal is to improve Participants’ access to employment and income, thus supporting their long-term stability.
- Steady work and income are essential to sustaining housing, yet the experience of homelessness creates significant barriers to finding and keeping quality jobs.
- Employment Services Projects that will strengthen our system’s capacity to help Participants connect to, maintain and improve their employment.
- Implement a program model that has credible employment pathways that are responsive to each Participant’s aptitudes, interests and goals.
- Adapt programming structure to meet individuals where they are and adjust as individuals’ needs change.
- Understand the social-emotional and practical barriers faced by individuals and families who were recently experiencing homelessness and have a plan to effectively address these barriers.
- Successfully collaborate with other systems and services in a manner that streamlines service delivery, minimizes Participant burden and avoids conflicting services.
- Workforce services through their established history and evidence of effectiveness, including documented performance across measures of performance progression (e.g., service enrollment, training completion/credentialing, job placement).
- This includes demonstrating an understanding of the barriers commonly experienced by individuals who have recently experienced homelessness—both social emotional (e.g., trauma, guarded responses and limited trust in systems, apprehension toward long term commitments) and practical (e.g., limited or inconsistent work histories, legal system involvement, access challenges).