Featured in today’s Op-Ed section of the Los Angeles Times is an editorial on a new employment program that is making its way through City Council. If approved, the pilot – designed to give jobs to individuals experiencing homelessness and managed by Chrysalis – would employ 30 individuals at a time to supplement the Bureau of Sanitation’s existing neighborhood cleanup efforts.
Chrysalis, a respected social services provider, would run the pilot…The pilot is designed to help homeless people who have trouble latching on to even the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. Participants would be chosen from among those who had been disconnected from the workforce for years, who need to learn how to have a job — how to show up on time, dress appropriately, deal with a boss, interact with the public.
The trash pick-up pilot is part of Chrysalis’ overall program, the goal of which is to launch a variety of people living on the margins (not all of them homeless) into stable, long-term employment.