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JUMPSTART CAREER PROGRAM

Our mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by helping people achieve – and maintain – permanent housing and stability in their lives. JUMPSTART CAREER PROGRAM. Jumpstart Vocational Training Culinary Arts Training Program 8 weeks x 3 days/week x 3 hours/day

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JUMPSTART CAREER PROGRAM

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  1. Our mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by helping people achieve – and maintain – permanent housing and stability in their lives.

  2. JUMPSTART CAREER PROGRAM • Jumpstart Vocational Training • Culinary Arts Training Program • 8 weeks x 3 days/week x 3 hours/day • Hands-on experience in food preparation, baking, kitchen safety, contamination, measurement etc • Jumpstart Café • Provides light breakfast/lunch/dinner, snacks, beverages etc. • Double-bottom-line social enterprise – produces income for programs and a vocational training program that provides on-the-job experience in customer service, management, inventory control etc • Jumpstart Education • 13 weeks of workshops in workforce education specifically for extreme-low-income, homeless population • Broken into three phases • Building the Foundation: Obtaining Benefits, Obtaining Housing, Money Management, Managing Health Care and Nutrition • Getting to Work: Motivation to Work, Job Searching, Writing a Resume, Effective Workplace Communications, Interviewing • Staying at Work: Workplace Expectations, Customer Service, Time Management, Conflict Resolution/Anger Management • All workshops in one place – written in same style, fully leverage each other, no gaps in service • Jumpstart Employment • Dedicated two-person job placement team

  3. OUTCOMES/RESULTS • Jumpstart Job Placements • FY10: 18 (prior to Jumpstart Career Program) • FY11: 151 • FY12: 156 • FY13: 182 • Trailing 12 months (through April 30th): 189 • Average Starting Salary • FY12 – $10.45/hr (27% above minimum wage) • 65% at $9/hr or more, 44% at $10/hr or more, 28% at $11/hr or more,19% at $12/hr or more • FY13 - $10.25/hr (24% above minimum wage) • 71% at $9/hr or more, 57% of at $10/hr or more, 35% at $11/hr or more, 23% at $12/hr or more • FY14 - $10.90/hr (32% above minimum wage) • 85% at $9/hr or more, 51% of at $10/hr or more, 35% at $11/hr or more, 23% at $12/hr or more Note: 43% of single adults at Inspirica do not have a high school degree. 88% have high school degree or less • Retention • Ongoing Retention/Support to clients placed in employment and housing • Job Retention: 89% at 1 month; 83% at 3 months, 91% at 6 months • Housing Retention: 100% at 1 month; 97% at 3 months; 94% at 6 months • Long-term implications

  4. KEYS TO SUCCESS •  COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH • All services in-house: vocational training, workforce education, job placement, health care, children’s services, children’s education, job/housing retention – plus case management, counseling, access to myriad other services through strategic partnerships • One-stop-shop – particularly important for families • INTENSIVE INTEGRATION • Internal integration – nothing left to chance, concrete mechanisms (meetings, reports, templates – force integration) • External integration – same as above –nothing left to chance – spend months laying the groundwork, building templates • Both go to the concept of replication and impact • INSTITUTIONALIZATION • Not always a bad word! • Consistent quality of service • Elimination of chance

  5. INSPIRICA THANK YOU! Noel Kammermann Chief Program Officer 203-388-0151 Nkammermann@InspiricaCT.org

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