Search Results for Community Care Campaign

Our Spotlight! is shining brightly on National Child Support Awareness Month and the Non-Custodial Parent Employment Program (NPEP), an integral component of the PGWorks Employment and Training Program, operated by KRA for the Prince George’s County Department of Social Services. Michaela Smalls, Career Agent, reported, “KRA champions the nationwide August initiative, and that of our own Maryland Child Support Enforcement Administration [CSEA], to highlight the critical importance of financial support and stability for our children. But, for KRA/PGWorks, every month focuses on child-support awareness–and enforcement–through NPEP, which provides aggressive job-placement assistance for parents delinquent on child-support obligations due to lack of employment.”
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For the 3rd year, the Work Participation, Placement, and Support Services Program, operated by KRA Corporation for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, is participating in Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s Hire One Youth Works Campaign.  Effective June 23rd, KRA hired two youths fulltime until the end of August. Tenisha Williams, who is assisting the KRA Career Agents Team, is a 2014 graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Dunbar)—and no stranger to KRA, having assisted with the Mayor’s 2013 Back to School Rally as part of a Dunbar community-service requirement.  A memberof the National Honor Society, Tenisha intends to become an Attorney,
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Recently, the Work Participation, Placement, and Support Services Program, operated by KRA Corporation for Baltimore City Department of Social Services’ recipients, hosted a Networking Dinner/Financial Workshop for 25 customers who recently have been placed in permanent employment, including administrative, dietary aide, health care, and labor positions. The honored customers, who will continue to work with KRA Retention Career Agents (RCA) during 12 consecutive weeks of full time employment, were encouraged to invite spouses, other guests, and relatives, including their children who were treated to games and a movie by staff and “Hire One Youth” student volunteers that KRA will be
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This month’s Spotlight! is shining brightly on the CTWorks Program* operated by KRA Corporation, and the phenomenal recruitment assistance and support provided to a new business-customer.  Jerry Santostefano, KRA Expeditor for the JFES (Jobs First Employment Services) operation of CTWorks, prefaced their story with, “We do try real hard here in Hartford, and the North Central Region of Connecticut, to make a positive difference for jobseekers and employers alike.  Our Spotlight! story is a prime example of those efforts,” which involved a massive worker recruitment and referral campaign, spearheaded by Artie Owens, our KRA Business Services Manager and his Team, for the HomeGoods Distribution Center
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The invitation, addressed to Yvette Clark,  KRA Lead Job Developer at the Baltimore  Work Participation, Placement, and Support Services Program [1] read, “You’re Invited.  Please join Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Greater Baltimore Committee President & CEO Donald C. Fry for a Thank You Luncheon for your role in making the 2013 Hire One Youth campaign a success!” Pursuant to the Luncheon, a Press Release, issued by the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, headlined “Mayor Rawlings-Blake Acknowledges Hire One Youth Businesses, Looks to Further Their Engagement.”  It continued, “ Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Fry thanked all the businesses for their partnership this summer
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