Discussion about entry: Jobs not Jails: Homeboy Industries

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Thu, 06/05/2008 - 20:31

Mona, I just sent this comment to the program in Santa Ana as well. Ashoka had me present a few years ago on what I was doing.

I have developed a very usable tool for youth, adult job seekers and seniors (and soon ex-offenders) to use and hanlde all of their career assessment, planning and exploration online. We have special youth challenges for decision making, using cartoonized teens with dilemmmas. We created content but also re-wrote the US DOLETA career information in simple language and then recorded auidio. We added a tremendous amount of well-linked and easy to use information. Our effort is to have a program that everyone can use, not a remedial one. Our Denver pilot came back at 99% approval rating by users in the workforce system.

I developed this out of my pocket and would now like to create parternships with nonprofits to take it to at-need populations and raise money while doing so. i would be glad to talk to anyone about that idea.

It is called www.CareerEdgeSystem.com and I can be reached off the site. Thanks for all you do--it sounds fabulous, Joan Sanger

Thu, 09/04/2008 - 15:14

Henry 213-864-6124 how do I get free work training?