Grant Program Job Opportunities

To provide a comprehensive career development program that will address youth unemployment.

To broaden employment options and increase earning potential for dozens of refugees.

To build a quality workforce for home care by creating jobs that retain experienced and skilled staff and by understanding what homebound elderly value in direct care workers.

To assist unemployed professionals at mid-life in developing the necessary skills and job search strategies to find satisfying work.

To provide employment services and skills training to community residents with a history of incarceration; and to place those residents in building trades work as a way to prevent recidivism.

To develop and market technical assistance services to public and nonprofit agencies interested in Step Up to Law Enforcement and modular home construction by incarcerated women.

To help graduates of Binding Together’s print technology training program advance in their careers.

To increase the number of foster care youth who are working or in school, with programs that could be applied to other at-risk youth in Maine.

To place ex-offender training graduates, both from the Roxbury program and the Suffolk House of Corrections, in jobs; and to perfect the training and job placement service for ex-offenders so that it becomes a national model.

To provide women with trade skills so that when they are released from prison they can earn a livable wage; and to build affordable homes for low-income families.