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HVRP offers a broad range of training and employment services. They include:
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Skills assessment
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Classroom training
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Job search activities
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Job preparation
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On-the-job training
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Job placement
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Help with transportation, clothing and work equipment needs
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Placement follow-up services
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Vocational counseling
We work with numerous partners in the community to deliver these services. These partners include businesses, training programs, educational institutions, human service organizations, veterans-serving agencies, government, and others.
In addition to helping individuals gain employment, our HVRP program connects them to the educational, counseling and support services they may need.
HVRP is part of our Center for Working Families, which is based at our Housing Opportunity Center. We also maintain an HVRP office at our Piquette Square for Veterans located at 6221 Brush in Detroit.
To learn more about HVRP, call David Cohen at 313-874-7014 x.340 or Theresa Paruszkiewicz 313-841-9641 x.326. You may also email David or email Theresa.
The Housing Opportunity Center is located at 3627 Vernor Highway, Detroit, MI 48216.
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- Our HVRP initiative began in July 2010
- We expect to place more than 50 homeless veterans in good paying jobs in our first year of operation
- More than 80% of those enrolled in HVRP will participate in job training activities
- The average wage for those placed into jobs is expected to be higher than minimum wage
To help homeless veterans take advantage and make the most of our program, our HVRP model includes outreach, pre-enrollment assessment, job training, job development, obtaining employer commitments to hire, and post-placement follow-up service.
To be eligible for HVRP services, an individual must be homeless and a veteran. - A "homeless" individual is someone who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. This term includes persons whose primary nighttime residence is either a supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
- A "veteran" is a person who served in the active U.S. military, naval or air service, and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
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