Background

The city of New York issued a request for proposals to administer a Work Experience program. The Salvation Army responded and subsequently was awarded a three-year contract to administer a City Wide WEP (Work Experience Program). This went into effect July 1, 1998.

The WEP is specifically designed to place adults receiving public assistance benefits (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF] and Safety Net for Single Adults [SN]) in actual work situations at the Salvation Army’s various sites, facilities and centers throughout the five boroughs where they can use their (acquired) skills to meet organizational needs.  WEP participants attend job readiness workshops to prepare for referral and placement in the workforce.

Unlike other WEP programs, this allows The Salvation Army to adopt a comprehensive approach when dispensing services to program participants and guarantees a higher rate of success for people moving from a life of dependence to independence.

          Future Plans

Our desire is to expand WEP and compliment it with other related employment programs and services. We would also use the WEP program as the conduit to forming a venture between Ernst and Young and the Staples Corp. The objective is to identify WEP participants for Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) for Staples to hire as Associates from various Salvation Army work-sites and/or programs. If successful, this could easily serve as models for other Salvation Army territorities to emulate for placing economically disadvantaged individuals.  

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"They assured your future, now assure theirs"

Located at the Borden Avenue Veterans Residence in Long Island City, Queens, the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project (HVRP) is structured to provide veterans with job opportunities, work readiness preparation and assistance with meeting educational goals and vocational training.  The program philosophy is, “Give a veteran food and he can eat for a day, but give him a job and he will eat for the rest of his life.”

HVRP works closely with Americorp.  This Program pays for the education of BAVR veterans, and in return they volunteer their services in local communities.  HVRP offers Security Training and works closely with department of Labor for other career training courses to make our veterans more marketable.

HVRP conducts monthly workshops with topics such as: Time Management, Interviewing Skills, Dressing for Success, Conflict Resolution and all the essential qualities that are needed to not only get the job, but to keep it.

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Formerly operating since 1988 as the Borden Avenue Veterans Residence Shelter Work Experience Program (Shelter WEP), the newly named, Veterans Integrating Experience with Work (VIEW) program is designed to provide homeless veterans with on-the-job training and work experience through counseling, work readiness preparation, internship and externship placements.

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Anticipated program launch this Summer 2001!  More details to follow.

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