New Frontier Opportunity Project
The main goal of the New Frontier Opportunity Project is to provided much needed services to day workers ranging from job counseling and advocacy to job placement and training. The program is run by a Job Coordinator who acts as a liaison between the workers and the employers as they negotiate wages and working conditions, helps to mediate possible conflicts for failure to pay the workers and contacts other sources of employment that may be able to provide permanent jobs.
We will also provide selected work skills training such as: carpentry, landscaping and other trades to 80 workers. After the workers complete a curriculum in their training, they will be prepared to take the exams for the appropriate licenses to enable them to legally and efficiently provide their services. Other services provided include contextualized English, financial and entrepreneurship counseling, accident prevention workshops and computer training.
A new activity that has been implemented is a jobs bank operated via hotline. An outreach person contacts potential employers, intakes their information and promotes the hiring of day workers. The potential employers could be landscaping companies, restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, construction and demolition companies, etc. This outreach person also travels to places where day workers congregate (street corners, delis, community centers) and fills out intakes with the day laborer's information so that they are easily accessible if a job should come up.
The day laborers are also given additional community resources and information if needed. Once a job becomes available, the business contact person will call the outreach person to request a laborer. A day laborer will receive a call with the job information and the matching up begins.
This job bank alternative will work for those employers and day workers that cannot come to the office site. This is an expansion of the program seeking further assistance to the most vulnerable sectors of the community and to see that families have necessary support.
We will also provide selected work skills training such as: carpentry, landscaping and other trades to 80 workers. After the workers complete a curriculum in their training, they will be prepared to take the exams for the appropriate licenses to enable them to legally and efficiently provide their services. Other services provided include contextualized English, financial and entrepreneurship counseling, accident prevention workshops and computer training.
A new activity that has been implemented is a jobs bank operated via hotline. An outreach person contacts potential employers, intakes their information and promotes the hiring of day workers. The potential employers could be landscaping companies, restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, construction and demolition companies, etc. This outreach person also travels to places where day workers congregate (street corners, delis, community centers) and fills out intakes with the day laborer's information so that they are easily accessible if a job should come up.
The day laborers are also given additional community resources and information if needed. Once a job becomes available, the business contact person will call the outreach person to request a laborer. A day laborer will receive a call with the job information and the matching up begins.
This job bank alternative will work for those employers and day workers that cannot come to the office site. This is an expansion of the program seeking further assistance to the most vulnerable sectors of the community and to see that families have necessary support.