10 Reasons to be Hopeful About Ending Homelessness
We often hear 'are we making any progress toward ending homelessness?'. While there's more work to be done, here are 10 reasons to celebrate the progress that's been made. Read Article
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Jobs Connect gives people who are homeless the gift of employment
Check out the KOMO report on the Jobs Connect Program which gives people facing homelessness a job. Inspiring work! Read Article
Jobs Connect on the Seattle Channel
https://www.uwkc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/JobsConnectVideo.mp4 The Seattle Channel recently rode along with… Read Article
Your Role in Getting 3,000 People Hired
In Seattle, you might think that all available jobs get filled up. NOT TRUE! Jobs in our area go unfilled everyday. That's where Jobs Connect comes in and helps those experiencing homelessness CONNECT to jobs. Check it out! Read Article
Employers see the benefits of putting Seattle’s homeless to work
Downtown Seattle’s Metropolitan Improvement District has never given a second thought to bestowing the dignified title of ambassador to Seattle’s homeless, making the employer an ideal partner to launch United Way of King County’s Jobs Connect program. The first wave of Jobs Connect participants are performing four-week temporary stints as street maintenance ambassadors for the MID. Wearing orange vests and clutching brooms and dust pans, the workers are teamed with full-time MID ambassadors, some of whom can relate personally, having once been homeless themselves. Read Article
Jobs Connect provides vehicle, transports people out of homelessness
Jobs Connect helps Seattle's homeless off the streets and into a job. Check out how! Read Article
Street Cleaning Jobs Clear The Path Out Of Homelessness
Meet just one of the impressive people helped out of homelessness by Jobs Connect! Read Article
An opportunity to work leads to a permanent job and a chance at stable housing
Jobs Connect gets Seattle's homeless population on the road to success through work. Check out how. Read Article
They’re Off the Streets, Thanks to You
It’s hard to see people in our community struggle. Even harder when they are calling makeshift tents “home.” Your gift is helping people get people off the streets. Read Article