Organizational example:

Name

STRIVE
Headquartered in New York, N.Y. with affiliate sites in 20 cities nationwide, and overseas locations in London, Ireland, Scotland, and Israel.

Purpose of Program

To prepare disadvantaged and hard-to-employ individuals for jobs

Program Description

STRIVE (Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees) is comprised of a network of national and international community-based organizations which utilize a successful job training and placement model for people with little or no work experience. This innovative model combines a short, intense period of attitude training—the soft skills needed to survive and excel in any workplace—job search techniques, rapid placement, and long-term follow-up.

STRIVE’s signature program is an intensive 3 to 4-week workshop that focuses on workplace behaviors and attitudes. Using a simulated workplace environment, participants learn how to dress and speak appropriately, follow instructions, accept criticism, and function as team members. The core training is short by design, and the goal is to help individuals make the adjustments needed to become employed as quickly as possible.

Progress

Over the last twenty years (1985-2005), the STRIVE Affiliate Network has achieved the following:

• STRIVE has placed more than 33,000 hard-to-employ individuals (70 percent of its graduates) in jobs.
• Seventy percent of the workers STRIVE places remain employed after 1 year.
• 2005 STRIVE graduated more than 4,000 individuals from its job-readiness training program and placed more than 3,000 individuals in unsubsidized jobs.

Contact Information

Jose Adorno, Director of Affiliate Services
240 East 123rd Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10035–2038
T: 212.360.1100
www.strivenational.org
email: jadorno@strivenational.org