6 Without other types of involvement with employers, incentives are utilized little and may actually stigmatize the workers they are intended to help. The following examples show how successful partnerships can work between WtW programs and employers. Interested participants are identified and referred by DHS and screened by the vocational school using ACT Work Keys. Selected individuals then attend a HOST job fair to be interviewed and hired for available positions. The instructors are certified teachers with hospitality experience.
Employers begin paying trainees as full employees with full benefits at the beginning of training.
For TANF recipients, HOST participation meets their work requirement and the county TANF allocation covers their training costs. Building on its success in Columbus, HOST opened a new site in Dayton in September 1998. Using Empowerment Zone funds, BMC began a six-week training program for welfare recipients and other zone residents in 1996. The company designed the curriculum and opened its own training facility. He supervises DSS' job development unit, which was renamed the Baltimore Employment Exchange.