A big thank you to our Fall 2024 Virtual Second Chance Job Fair Opening Ceremony panelists! April Foster - Executive Director, Keyway Tracie Striebel - Licensed Professional Counselor, Sonder Counseling Eli Knight - Client Development and Diversity Coordinator, Iron Mechanical This morning, they discussed gender-responsive strategies for women returning home from prison and how they can foster successful employment. Check out the recording if you weren't able to attend.
Saint Louis University Transformative Workforce Academy
Higher Education
St Louis, Missouri 54 followers
Saint Louis' Hub for Second Chance Employment
About us
Transformative Workforce Academy (TWA) is part of a Saint Louis University interdepartmental collaboration designed to support those most at risk of incarceration in living fruitful, prison-free lives. SLU’s initiatives engage the whole lifespan, including prevention, in-prison, and reentry services. Through research, information-sharing, and direct services in areas such as education, legal defense, life skills training, and employment placement, SLU seeks to address the root causes of crime by providing support and resources to those who all too often see no alternative. TWA’s focus is helping those who are justice-involved, especially those recently coming out of prison, find and retain meaningful employment. TWA began its efforts in April 2018 by partnering with the federal and state level Probation & Parole offices to sponsor the inaugural Second Chance Job Fair at Chaifetz Arena. These efforts continued in 2019, when the Second Chance Job Fair drew 1,000 attendees, including 77 employers committed to looking at candidates holistically, beyond just their criminal record. That same year, TWA expanded on the success of these job fairs by beginning to provide year-round job search assistance to justice-involved individuals. Since 2020, TWA has been adapting to the digitization of the job search process accelerated by the pandemic. TWA now hosts bi-annual virtual Second Chance Job Fairs, works with jobseekers referred by community partners between fairs, and trains employers on best practices for second chance employment and retention. In 2022, 201 jobseekers and 82 employers participated in TWA job fairs, with over 100 jobseekers referred between fairs. In 2023, SLU TWA expanded again and now provides pre-release services to participants in five Missouri Department of Corrections institutions, preparing for their release to and connecting them with employment opportunities in St. Louis.
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www.slu.edu/secondchance
External link for Saint Louis University Transformative Workforce Academy
- Industry
- Higher Education
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- St Louis, Missouri
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2018
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3840 Lindell Blvd
St Louis, Missouri 63108, US
Employees at Saint Louis University Transformative Workforce Academy
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Calling all employers willing to look beyond the record to the talent! We'll send you a customized set of two-minute video resumes to watch, and you let us know who you're interested in taking next steps with. Sign up to participate in our virtual job fair by this Friday using this link: https://lnkd.in/dWJZRaRz
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Sign up today to be a volunteer job coach for our upcoming Fall 2024 Virtual Job Fair! https://lnkd.in/ga-C25yD
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Don't have time to table at a job fair, but you're looking for a diverse pool of untapped talent? SLU TWA's virtual job fair is a great alternative! We send you a customized set of video resumes of second chance jobseekers. Sign up online by Friday (04/12)! https://lnkd.in/gWa2MJD3
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SLU TWA is calling for volunteer job coaches! Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dr-jf_nf
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Excuse us while we humble brag on one of our partner employers, SugarBot Sweet Shop & Creamery, for being selected as a REDF Accelerator leader in 2024! Way to go, Jackie and team!
Our next group of 2024 Accelerator leaders hails from the Midwest! Together, the enterprises they steward are building a more inclusive region by providing jobs, training, and support for people overcoming steep barriers to employment, including justice system involvement and experiences of homelessness. Amplify Chicago’s social enterprise, Amplify Property Solutions, is a demolition, deconstruction, landscaping, and janitorial service company. APS project managers – young people ages 21 to 30 with justice system experience – have the opportunity to earn leadership roles and ownership stakes in the company. A Safe Haven Foundation, also based in Chicago, offers a social enterprise in commercial landscaping, which provides employment training and job development skills to returning citizens and people who are homeless or unstably housed. Ready for Good Furnishings, a nonprofit furniture store in Lawrence, Kansas, is home to a social enterprise program that hires, trains, and mentors opportunity youth. Kansas City, Missouri, is home to CoBuild, which is a construction services provider that offers a teaching environment for opportunity youth, at the intersection of affordable housing and workforce development. SugarBot Sweet Shop/SugarBot Creamery (formerly Little O's Old Time Soda Fountain), based in St. Charles, Missouri, produces baked goods, confections, and ice cream fresh and from scratch. The enterprise operates two storefronts, and offers jobs and training to people experiencing barriers to employment. #socialenterprise #socent #inclusiveeconomy #ingoodcompany #REDFCommunity
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Looking for a volunteer opportunity that leverages your professional expertise through a one-on-one relationship with someone in our StL community? Sign up to be a job coach in SLU TWA's Spring 2024 Virtual Second Chance Job Fair here: https://lnkd.in/gJKRXrZw
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