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KRA Launches 5th Annual Community Care Day

July 8, 2013 | No Comments

Knowlton R. Atterbeary, KRA Corporation President & CEO, has officially launched the 2013 Community Care Day Campaign, a company-wide initiative created in 2009 to celebrate the joy of giving and sharing good works with customers and neighbors in the communities the firm serves. The 2012 Community Care Day program, coordinated by Tiffany Haynes, KRA Lead Instructor, benefitted many military personnel and their families across the country. At the conclusion of last year’s initiative, Haynes was quoted as saying, “Each year, the local projects’ campaigns reflect the caring, concern, and strength within our communities. The focus of the 2012 initiative was ‘Support Our Troops’, and
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4th Annual KRA Community Care Day “Supports Our Troops”

March 3, 2013 | No Comments

“‘Developing Workers. Strengthening Communities.’ is so much more than a corporate ‘tagline’ reports Tiffany Haynes, Lead Instructor, KRA/VIEW (Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare) Program. It is the very heart of KRA’s mission, and our annual Community Care Day Campaign reflects the true essence of KRA…a belief that ‘strengthening communities’ goes far beyond ‘developing workers’. We help to make our communities stronger in many other ways, in that local KRA sites support their communities all year long…raising awareness and/or money for many non-profit causes and organizations. However, once a year, we coalesce our energy and support as one company focused on one cause…and that is the
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KRA Launches 4th Annual Community Care Day

October 22, 2012 | No Comments

Knowlton R. Atterbeary, KRA President & CEO, has officially launched the 2012 Community Care Day campaign, a company-wide initiative created to celebrate the joy of giving and sharing good works with customers and neighbors in the communities the firm serves. The 2011 Community Care Day program, coordinated by Mr. Domonique Goode, a KRA Quality Assurance Team Leader, benefitted many deserving community organizations including five Ronald McDonald Houses, three group homes for neglected and troubled youth, a family homeless shelter, and a food pantry. More than 800 items of food, household goods, clothing, gift cards, and school supplies were donated to the
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KRA “Job Fairs in June” Campaign

June 18, 2012 | No Comments

Last month, we reported that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) proclaimed June as American Job Fair Month to create opportunities for the workforce system, the One-Stop Career Centers, and all partners in the American Job Center Network. To promote their services to business customers, ETA encouraged states, local WIBS, and American Job Centers nationwide to sponsor a Job Fair during June. Answering the call, KRA programs went into high gear for the mutual benefit of their jobseeker- and business-customers. We will continue to report on the success of more KRA Job Fairs in June events
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KRA to Participate in Labor Department Campaign

June 4, 2012 | No Comments

Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced June as American Job Fair Month to create opportunities for the workforce system, the One-Stop Career Centers, and all partners in the American Job Center Network, to promote their services to business customers. In the announcement, ETA encouraged states, local workforce investment boards, and American Job Centers nationwide to participate by sponsoring a Job Fair during the month of June. Although KRA’s One-Stop operations…and other workforce services programs…routinely organize successful Job Fairs for the mutual benefit of their jobseeker- and business-customers, the company took the ETA request
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KRA Staff Launch “Get Warm” Campaign

January 1, 2012 | No Comments

Sheena Griffin, KRA Instructor, Norfolk KRA/VIEW (Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare) program, reports, “For KRA Community Care Day, our team volunteered for winter-cleanup of the local Ronald McDonald House, and donated more than 200 items, including school supplies, toys, and nonperishable food. But, KRA Norfolk did not stop there; we believe in charitable giving year-round. So, we initiated an ongoing clothing drive for our “Get Warm 2011” campaign that, at the end of last year and into the future, benefits two important community resources that partner with KRA on behalf of our customers.” The first, The Dwelling Place, located just
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KRA Staff Improve Service Delivery Through TIC Training

April 11, 2017 | No Comments

According to the Trauma Informed Care Project, trauma-informed care (TIC) is “an organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma [and] emphasizes physical, psychological and emotional safety for both consumers and providers, and helps survivors rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.” In addition to supporting KRA’s corporate-wide 2016 Community Care Campaign, part of which focused on youth suffering from PTSD-type challenges, KRA/Long Beach Knowledge2Career Academy staff participated in local TIC-training events on practices that can assist individuals in coping with trauma-related obstacles to achieving personal and professional goals. Project Director
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KRA Services Youth Challenged by Trauma

January 9, 2017 | No Comments

It is both appropriate and timely that KRA chose its 2016 Community Care Campaign (CCC) to focus on two devastating consequences of neighborhood violence…PTSD in youth and young ex-offenders returning to the community seeking education, job-training and/or employment opportunities. A September 2016 Washington Post article stated, “As a number of major American cities are reporting more homicides this year than last year, the overall number of killings in the country’s biggest cities has increased in 2016, with one city accounting for nearly half of the total spike. Chicago has experienced almost half of the overall increase in homicides…along with Washington
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KRA Brightens Holiday for Prison Fellowship Family

January 9, 2017 | No Comments

Through the Angel Tree® Prison Fellowship Program, the KRA San Diego Metro Region Centers, operated for the San Diego Workforce Partnership, “adopted” a family—a mother; children, 5 and 7; and a father…who was incarcerated. Career Agent Catherine McLean, reports, “As part of our 2016 Community Care Campaign, KRA/San Diego staff donated both time and money to provide some Holiday cheer for our adopted family. Gifts were given to the children as if they were from their parents, with each receiving toys from their Angel Tree wish lists, as well as books, clothes, and a Holiday stocking filled with more goodies.
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KRA Adopts Beach Streets Midtown Intersection

December 30, 2016 | No Comments

The website states, “There are several key ways the City hopes to use ‘Beach Streets’ as an invitation to think differently about our streets.” And, attended by such dignitaries as Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia and City Councilmember Daryl Supernaw, Beach Streets Midtown was another spectacular success! In the spirit of the 2016 Community Care Campaign (CCC), the KRA Knowledge2Career (K2C) Academy, operated for the Pacific Gateway WDB, joined Beach Streets Midtown by adopting a midtown/central Long Beach intersection and shining a light on the needs of hard-to-place youth for skills-training and -certification and jobs with “second-chance employers”. KRA staff,
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