1. HUD Employment and Training Programs
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
November 14, 2017

2. Contact Information
Jayme Brown
Neighborhood and Community Investment Specialist
Office of Public and Indian Housing
Rafiq A. Munir
Program Advisor
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

3. Continuum of Care: Program Goals
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.
Provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness
Promote access to and effect utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

4. HUD’s Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Program Goals
CSBG provides funds to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in communities by supporting local projects that:
Lessen poverty in communities
Address the needs of low-income individuals including the homeless, migrants and the elderly
Provide services and activities addressing employment, education, better use of available income, housing, nutrition, emergency services and/or health

5. Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS): Program Goals
Program consists of the following components:
Head-of-Household signs a 5-year Contract of Participation
Case management services with Individual Training and Services Plan (ITSP) to help each member of the family overcome barriers to increased earnings
FSS Program Coordinator convenes a Program Coordinating Committee (PCC)
Services provided by local community agencies and organizations
Each family establishes an escrow account, that grows as families' earnings grow
Difference between initial Rent and increased Rent due to increased Earned Income goes into escrow each month
Upon graduation, can be used for ANY activity/purchase the family chooses
Can be used for homeownership; number one use in recent years is debt reduction and credit repair

6. Resident Opportunity & Self-Sufficiency (ROSS): Program Goals
The Resident Opportunity & Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) program is designed to assist residents of public and Indian housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency.
Service Coordinator’s may serve families and/or elderly/disabled public housing residents
Service Coordinators that serve families assist families to increase earned income and move towards economic self sufficiency.
Service Coordinators that serve elderly/disabled link residents to supportive services which enable them to age/remain in-place.
Achieve Economic Sufficiency
Reduce or Eliminate Welfare assistance
Increase Earned Income

7. Jobs Plus: Program Goals
Jobs Plus is a place-based program aimed at increasing employment and earned income of public housing residents in selected developments.
The Jobs Plus program consists of the following three core components:
Employment-related service: Grantees offer employment-related services to residents with a range of employment needs. This includes services such as work-readiness training, employer linkages, financial counseling, educational advancement, job placement, and employment counseling.
Employment and Training
Financial Incentives
Community Supports for Work
Financial incentives: Targeted residents enrolled in Jobs Plus will be granted a 100 percent income disregard that will remain in place for up to 48 months.
Community support for work: Grantees market Jobs Plus services and financial incentives to all targeted residents in a development. The goal is to saturate communities with work-related messages and to create a culture of work.
3 Program Cohorts
Given a six month start up period
Cohort 1 Launched September 2015
Cohort 2 Launched July 2016
Cohort 3 Will launch April 2017

8. Section 3: Economic Opportunities for Local Residents
Section 3 is a provision of the HUD Act of It was enacted in an attempt to address a period of heightened civil unrest emanating from economically distressed inner-city communities
The purpose is to provide jobs, training and contracting opportunities to local low- and very-low income persons and to businesses that substantially employ those persons
Section 3 is race and gender neutral, eligibility is based on income and location
HUD funded projects that are leveraged with state, local and/or private funding are covered.

9. HUD Programs Covered by Section 3: Approximately 50% of Annual Budget Authority
PIH Capital Fund Program (CFP)
PIH Operating Subsidy
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
Choice Neighborhoods Grants (formerly HOPE VI)
Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)
HOME Investment Partnership Grants
Disaster Recovery Grants
Section 202/811
Lead Abatement Grants
Certain NOFA Competitive Grants

10. Section 3 Outcomes
110,000
Section 3 jobs and trainees
Owner/Developer
Contractors
Workforce Development
Small Business Sector
Community Institutions
$4.8B
Section 3 Contracting
26,000
Section 3 Businesses
receiving contracts

11. How can HUD employment and training activities support the workforce system under WIOA?
Provide customers to the local workforce agencies, many of which have wrap around supports
HUD assisted entities can provide feedback on the challenges faced by hard to serve residents
Challenge:
American Jobs Centers (AJC)-It has been challenging for our residents to tap into the opportunities offered by the local career centers. Much of the training offered by the AJC require individuals to pass a Test for Basic Education (TABE) or have an eight-grade reading/ computational equivalency. As a result, some of our residents can’t engage with the system in the way it has been designed.

12. What are the types of HUD employment and training activities that can be integrated into the American Job Center network?
May of the HUD self-sufficiency programs have population limitations making it hard to integrate the employment and training activities into the network.
Innovation:
Jobs Plus in a place based program designed to serve an entire development. The local housing authority in Phoenix, AZ has worked with their local workforce board to become an AJC affiliate site.