This approach models Wisconsin Conservation Corps. Participation is kept to a minimum so that individual attention may be provided to each person. The crew's supervisor is a county employee and former welfare recipient. The supervisor's responsibilities are to get trainees to and from each work site. At the work sites, crew workers undertake such tasks as washing windows, painting stairwells, trimming river banks and restoring historical plaques.
People get to work, and their work makes a difference in the community.
Through the Quantum Work Crew, Fond du Lac County is able to make Community Service Job placements within 24 hours. This program allows for W-2 participants to receive their first paycheck that much sooner and get them even closer to the top rung of the employment ladder. This approach not only benefits the work crew participants, but it helps the needier W-2 participants as well. By getting people into Community Service Jobs more quickly, W-2 Financial and Employment Planners are able to spend more time with needier participants and devote their energy to finding creative solutions to greater needs. The program is working.