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Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services

Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services. A Safe Haven’s Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurial Training Brian M. Rowland, CEO.

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Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services

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  1. Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services A Safe Haven’s Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurial Training Brian M. Rowland, CEO

  2. “It takes more than a big heart and a desire to help. It takes very resourceful people with business skills, the ability to pull in investors, and ways of developing empirical evidence to get grants.”

  3. From Financial Sector toA Safe Haven • Early 1990s, flourishing as financial advisors • Scarcity of services for those in recovery • Began investing in abandoned real estate • Rehabbed 13-unit building and rented it to recovering addicts • Led to opening A Safe Haven Foundation in 1994

  4. The Realization In order for people to sustain their sobriety, they need stable housing, living-wage employment, physical and mental healthcare, and access to supportive services.

  5. Today • Annual Budget of $20 million • Served 50,000 individuals to date (currently 5,000/yr) • 300 employees • 1,300 beds across 33 sites throughout Chicagoland • Manage nearly 700 units of affordable housing

  6. 2750 W Roosevelt Rd

  7. 618 S Wabash

  8. 7355 N Damen

  9. 2049-57 W Jarvis

  10. 12551 S Alpine Dr 12543 S Alpine Dr

  11. East Dundee

  12. Program • Behavioral health • Supportive and Transitional Housing • Case Management • Drug and Alcohol Treatment • Affordable Housing • Adult Education • JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

  13. From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency Individuals with significant employment barriers benefit from A Safe Haven’s social business enterprise model. Homeless men and women, Veterans, families, and individuals returning to the community re-enter the job market with critical job skills.

  14. Return on Investment • Thousands of ASH clients now supporting themselves & their families • Paying taxes • Contributing to their communities • 20% of employees are Veterans

  15. 18 For-Profits provide: • Revenue • Jobs • Housing

  16. Entrepreneurial Projects: Agency and Client Support • Support A Safe Haven • Provide necessary services for the agency • Expand scope of opportunities offered • Support residents of A Safe Haven • Provide job training • Real employment opportunities

  17. ASH’s Main Campus • Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood • 125,000 square feet main headquarters • Interim housing for up to 400 individuals • Multiple class rooms and computer lab • Training institute programs for SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

  18. Computer Lab

  19. Classroom

  20. Social Enterprises • Talent Resource Services • Landscaping • Pest Control • Catering / Culinary Arts • Call Center (Sales/Customer Service) • Maintenance Services • Security Services • Be! Products

  21. Talent Resource Services Clients referred to industry-based job training, placement, and retentionprogram in sixhigh-demand industries very forgiving to those with employment barriers Landscaping Pest Control Catering Call Center Maintenance Security

  22. FISCAL YEAR 2013 • Transitional Job Placements: 585 • Permanent Direct Hire Placements: 352 • 106 Employer Partners

  23. 2013 Job Placement Data

  24. Landscaping • “…a team of horticulture experts and professionally trained urban landscape professionals committed to enhancing urban landscapes, with a greater purpose.” • Since 1994, a pioneer in Social Enterprise • Contracts with City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools

  25. Pest Control • Licensed, bonded, and insured by the State of Illinois • Commercial and residential contracts • Green technology: State-of-the-art thermal remediation • Highly competitive rates

  26. Catering &Culinary Arts • Graduates develop skills to succeed in any professional food service or hospitality environment • Boxed Lunch Event Catering • A Safe Haven Catering sustains our culinary food service job training program

  27. Maintenance • On-the-job training program model • Basic janitorial skills, including green cleaning

  28. Call Center • Develop customer service skills • Preparation for career in sales • Annual 5K RUN! To End Homelessness

  29. Security

  30. Be! Products: Cosmetic Nail Care

  31. NEW Social Enterprise: Welding! • Grant awarded • Scheduled to launch in Fiscal Year 2015!

  32. www.ASafeHaven.org www.ASafeHaven.org/Social-Enterprise/

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