St. Joseph Post
The Community Action Partnership of Greater St. Joseph has been allocated $250,000 of CARES Act funding for a temporary labor assistance program.
CAP St. Joe Executive Director Whitney Lanning says this program creates jobs to help the homeless and unemployed population get back on their feet.
“Get residents from our homeless shelter involved in various clean-up activities around the community,” Lanning said. “They get paid an hourly wage for that service.”
The city partners with Workforce Solutions in St. Joseph to operate this program. Lanning says the city first started the labor assistance program about 1.5 years ago with positive results, but it was later suspended due to inadequate funding.