TOWARD A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN FOR HOMELESS AND AT-RISK FAMILIES:
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS LISTENING TOUR
With a four month planning grant from The Fireman Foundation, the Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness has retained the UMass Donahue Institute to help develop a two year action plan that will offer specific strategies to create employment opportunities for homeless families. To make this effort a success, we need you!
Please join us at one of three regional conversations to share your thoughts and experiences around the barriers to employment faced by homeless families, and how we can join together across organizations, funding agencies and for-profit/ not-for profit lines to address these barriers as a community. Your input is absolutely critical to a successful Workforce Development Action Plan for Western Massachusetts.
Hampshire/Franklin County Listening Session:
Monday, January 9, 2011
10 am – 11:30 am
Northampton Career Center
178 Industrial Drive, Northampton
Hampden County Listening Session:
Wednesday, January 11
10 am – 11:30 am
Hampden County Regional Employment Board
1141 Main Street, Springfield
Berkshire County Listening Session
Wednesday, January 18
10 am – 11:30
Berkshire Partnership for Housing and Consumers
One Fenn Street, Pittsfield
Please RSVP for all sessions to Lindsay Koshgarian of UMass Donahue Institute, lkoshgarian@donahue.umassp.edu or 413-545-6615
Please contact Lindsay or Pamela Schwartz, network coordinator, with any questions at pschwartz77@gmail.com
Also, please forward. Click here for a printable version. Please join us!
