WHERE JOB TRAINING MONEY IS GOING - TO FAITH BASED GROUPS THAT HAVE NO COMPENTENCIES IN JOB TRAINING
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In how many cities and what church do you go to to get job training, and who is qualified in those churches to do that! How many of you knew that you could do that? The ONE STOP Program was adequate and did a HELL of a job before the money was sent to Faith Based Groups! They do not get funded anymore and people are losing their homes!
Lets, not just ignor this blog. I care about this Country and hope that you do to!
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The Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI) at the U.S. Department of Labor seeks to empower faith-based and community organizations (FBCO) as these organizations help their neighbors enter, succeed and thrive in the workforce. Read more...
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Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives
The work of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Labor stems from a simple conviction: Americans can do better for our neighbors in need when we draw upon the unique strengths of every willing partner.
Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives tells the story of how the Faith-Based and Community Initiative at the U.S. Department of Labor has made a real difference in the lives of more than 150,000 jobseekers, workers, families, vulnerable youth, and communities. As part of DOL’s mission to foster a prepared, competitive, safe, and secure workforce, the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives works with DOL agencies to tap into the unique abilities of faith-based and community organizations in order to help more individuals overcome barriers to employment, find jobs, and stay employed. These collaborative efforts have produced innovative public-private partnerships that decrease unemployment and recidivism among ex-prisoners, increase access to publicly funded employment resources in low-income communities, help homeless veterans find housing and jobs, withdraw and prevent children from entering exploitive child labor around the world, increase workplace safety outreach to Spanish-speaking workers, and much more. Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives covers three main topics: Creating Access to New Opportunities Through Public-Private Partnerships, Faith-Based and Community Organizations: Utilizing Strengths and Building Capacity, and Transforming Lives Through Government Partnerships with Faith-Based and Community Organizations.
Read the Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives publication.
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This Month's Champion of Compassion
Father's and Families Center (FFC)
Father's and Families Center (FFC) is a non-profit organization, based in Indianapolis, IN, that is dedicated to serving low income, unemployed, underemployed, and undereducated young fathers and expectant fathers in the Indianapolis area. FFC's services include employment preparation training, GED preparation studies, employment referrals, as well as pre- and post-job placement counseling. Additionally, FFC partners with One-Stop Career Centers and other organizations in an effort to introduce potential competitors into the labor market and increase job retention.
FFC won competitively-awarded Small Grassroots Grants from the Labor Department in 2006 and 2007. These grants are part of the Department of Labor's efforts to partner existing programs at faith-based and community organizations in order to provide better service to needy people and families.
Father's and Families Center works with many community partners to provide services such as life skills training, employment preparation, on-line job search, entrepreneurship training, and job placement and retention assistance. Through the first two years of services under the grants, FFC has enrolled 519 new participants. FFC has referred 222 clients to the One-Stop Career Center. Fifty-two participants have been placed in post-secondary education or advanced training. 258 participants have been placed in jobs and 167 have kept their jobs for three months, while 124 have maintained employment for six months. The average hourly wage at the time of time placement is $9.13.
Father's and Families Center has been named a "Champion of Compassion" by the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
View the Champions of Compassion archive.
You can visit the Employment and Training Administration's Prisoner Reentry Initiative page for more information on the PRI, including a map of grantee locations and contact information.
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Lets, not just ignor this blog. I care about this Country and hope that you do to!
U.S. Department of Labor
Center for Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
Our Mission
The Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI) at the U.S. Department of Labor seeks to empower faith-based and community organizations (FBCO) as these organizations help their neighbors enter, succeed and thrive in the workforce. Read more...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives
The work of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Labor stems from a simple conviction: Americans can do better for our neighbors in need when we draw upon the unique strengths of every willing partner.
Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives tells the story of how the Faith-Based and Community Initiative at the U.S. Department of Labor has made a real difference in the lives of more than 150,000 jobseekers, workers, families, vulnerable youth, and communities. As part of DOL’s mission to foster a prepared, competitive, safe, and secure workforce, the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives works with DOL agencies to tap into the unique abilities of faith-based and community organizations in order to help more individuals overcome barriers to employment, find jobs, and stay employed. These collaborative efforts have produced innovative public-private partnerships that decrease unemployment and recidivism among ex-prisoners, increase access to publicly funded employment resources in low-income communities, help homeless veterans find housing and jobs, withdraw and prevent children from entering exploitive child labor around the world, increase workplace safety outreach to Spanish-speaking workers, and much more. Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives covers three main topics: Creating Access to New Opportunities Through Public-Private Partnerships, Faith-Based and Community Organizations: Utilizing Strengths and Building Capacity, and Transforming Lives Through Government Partnerships with Faith-Based and Community Organizations.
Read the Renewing Communities, Restoring Hope, and Transforming Lives publication.
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This Month's Champion of Compassion
Father's and Families Center (FFC)
Father's and Families Center (FFC) is a non-profit organization, based in Indianapolis, IN, that is dedicated to serving low income, unemployed, underemployed, and undereducated young fathers and expectant fathers in the Indianapolis area. FFC's services include employment preparation training, GED preparation studies, employment referrals, as well as pre- and post-job placement counseling. Additionally, FFC partners with One-Stop Career Centers and other organizations in an effort to introduce potential competitors into the labor market and increase job retention.
FFC won competitively-awarded Small Grassroots Grants from the Labor Department in 2006 and 2007. These grants are part of the Department of Labor's efforts to partner existing programs at faith-based and community organizations in order to provide better service to needy people and families.
Father's and Families Center works with many community partners to provide services such as life skills training, employment preparation, on-line job search, entrepreneurship training, and job placement and retention assistance. Through the first two years of services under the grants, FFC has enrolled 519 new participants. FFC has referred 222 clients to the One-Stop Career Center. Fifty-two participants have been placed in post-secondary education or advanced training. 258 participants have been placed in jobs and 167 have kept their jobs for three months, while 124 have maintained employment for six months. The average hourly wage at the time of time placement is $9.13.
Father's and Families Center has been named a "Champion of Compassion" by the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
View the Champions of Compassion archive.
You can visit the Employment and Training Administration's Prisoner Reentry Initiative page for more information on the PRI, including a map of grantee locations and contact information.
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Locate Programs and Peers in Your State
Publications
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Faith-Based & Community Organizations
Workforce System
Special Projects
Beneficiary Choice
Grassroots Grantees
Prisoner Re-entry
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After all, both Bill and Hillary support these faith-based initiatives.
What about Hillary? What about Bill? Reply
By Hollywood 16 minutes ago
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"I've been supportive of the idea of government partnership with faith-based organizations and other non-profit organizations to do the work of fighting poverty. We've done it for years, overseas and here. I think it needs to be done.
But not only [does] it fund religion, it's got to fund results. ââ‚&n ot;¦ I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. It shouldn't. It's against the law. It's bad for religion, and bad for government when government does that.
But partnering with faith-based organizations, taking away barriers to cooperation between a mayor and a city council and a synagogue or mosque or congregation, I think that can be a good thing for a society. Mr. Gore would have done something like this. Bill Clinton was doing this. Tony Blair's doing the same kind of thing. There are good ways to do it and there are bad ways to do it.
There are ways to do it that respect the separation of church and state that respects other religious minorities. All the communities are respected and respect those who aren't religious and don't want to be. Their rights have to be respected as well. To not avail ourselves of the energy and commitment and resources of faith communities over poverty is a mistake. But how to do it in a way that is consistent with our best values is something that we're wrestling with" - Jim Wallis on PBS Frontline
Nevertheless, Mr DiIulio hopes that a future Democratic president will prefer pragmatism to what he regards as misguided ideology. The origins of the faith-based idea were bipartisan. The Clinton administration endorsed "charitable choice" (which let religious organisations compete on a level playing field) in his second term. Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton's second secretary of housing, established the first "faith centre" in the federal government. Mr DiIulio advised both Al Gore and Mr Bush. Two-thirds of American states have now enacted "faith-friendly" laws.
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In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a welfare reform bill that included a "charitable choice" provision whereby the nation's quarter of a million or more religious congregations can receive public funds to conduct programs such as counseling, job training and day care.
The first state to take advantage of this opportunity was Texas where, in September of 1997, Gov. George W. Bush signed four bills permitting state agencies to fund programs such as drug treatment and prison rehabilitation conducted by faith-based groups.
In addition to Presidents Clinton and Bush, support for this approach has come from former Vice-President Al Gore and Sen. Joe Leiberman, Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President in 2000. Similar proposals are currently before Congress -- now generally referred to as "faith-based initiatives."
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The money spent on Faith Based Groups as per the head of the Faith Based groups was a waste. A few churches have succeeded, but I as an HR person cannot send them to a church.
Grow up! Get real, Clinton provided grants to small businesses whom provide over 90 percent of the jobs in this country! One Stop was efficent, and got the job done!
But you keep pinning this on him and not on her. Why not on her?
See, when I said I don't think faith-based initiatives are a bad idea if they are run properly, instead of simply disagreeing with me, you made it all about Barack Obama. I speak for myself, Barack Obama does not control my mind. I happen to disagree with him on some things and agree with him on others.
So now that we have got that clear, this is something you disagree with me, Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, then fine. I still disagree with you, though - I don't think faith-based initiatives are going to compete with job creation schemes - unfortunately, they were put under the Labor Department umbrella in '96 but I think that was probably because there was (a) no separate department, and (b) Clinton got a lot of flack for his faith-based initiatives from the left.
PLEASE DONT MIX APPLES AND ORANGES> THE CLINTONS NEVER HAD CHURCHES GIVE JOB TRAINING!
Many, many churches run day centers for the unemployed and homeless where they teach just those skills.
You grow up and get real. You've proven your lack of judgment numerous times already.
I don't know what kind of HR you do, but it seems to me not job training because of the number of times you have said you would not consider someone who requires training, and are against on-the-job training in principle.
Burns Strider, Clinton's director of faith-based outreach, "said that if she were elected, Clinton would continue funding faith-based organizations, but would seek to maintain an appropriate boundary between church and state," Christianity Today reported. "Clinton emphasizes a 'fair and level playing field' for faith-based and secular providers of social services, Strider said."
Brett O'Donnell, a spokesperson for McCain, told Christianity Today that his "candidate wants faith-based groups to 'have at least the same standing as they have now.'" - Media Transparency, March 14, 2008
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"In an interview with Religion News Service, Sen. Hillary Clinton discussed faith topics including finding common ground with Pope Benedict XVI, the value of faith-based initiatives, and gay and lesbian clergy in her United Methodist Church.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: You were an early and enthusiastic supporter of charitable choice and some kind of faith-based initiative, if not President Bush's particular plan. Do you think that there are some social problems, such as alcoholism, recidivism or chronic poverty that required a faith-inflected solution to solve?
A: I have been a supporter of faith-based programs that work to help people and lift them up; (such programs) neither contradict our government nor our Constitution and I support faith-based efforts as long as its done in the appropriate manner. A number of programs have had success that has been replicated." - Religious News, April 14, 2008
"Sen. Clinton urges use of faith-based initiatives
By Michael Jonas, Globe Correspondent | January 20, 2005
In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems, Clinton said there has been a "false division" between faith-based approaches to social problems and respect for the separation of church of state.
"There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles," said Clinton, a New York Democrat who often is mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008.
Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza, Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person."
She said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square."
- Boston Globe, January 20, 2005
"UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS WELCOMES SEN. OBAMA COMMITMENT TO KEEP "FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE" GOING BEYOND 2009; SEN. CLINTON'S PRIOR ACTIONS AND PAST STATEMENTS BY SEN. MCCAIN BODE WELL TOO
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America - through its Institute for Public Affairs - welcomed a clear statement made last night by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to continue the "faith-based initiative," should he be elected president. The UOJCA noted that this statement, combined with previous statements and actions by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain, all but assures the continuation of this critical initiative - which the UOJCA has actively supported since its inception.
Speaking last night at the "Compassion Forum" held at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, Senator Obama stated:
.... people sometimes ask me, what do I think about faith-based initiatives? I want to keep the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives open, but I want to make sure that its mission is clear...the faith-based initiative should be targeted specifically at the issue of poverty and how to lift people up. And partnering with faith communities, I think we can achieve that as long as it's within the requirements of our Constitution. We make sure that it's open to everybody.
This statement rounded out the field of 2008 presidential candidates supporting the faith-based initiative. During her senate tenure, Senator Hillary Clinton has been a leading sponsor of legislation designed to bolster the work of faith-based and community charities including the "C.A.R.E. Act." Senator McCain has also expressed support for the government's appropriate partnership with faith-based social welfare agencies."
- Institute of Public Affairs, April 14, 2008
Clinton championed the four 'charitable-choice laws' that her husband signed between 1996 and 1998, each one directing federal agencies to roll back constitutionally suspect limits on grants to religious nonprofit organizations that supply social services. On December 17, 2001, she spoke at a New York City church: "The Founders had . . . faith in God, from which the ability to reason is a gift. . . . Government works in partnership with religious institutions . . . feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless." On January 19, 2005, she preached before clergy in inner-city Boston: "But I ask you, who is more likely to go out onto a street to save some poor, at-risk child than . . . someone who believes in the divinity of every person, who sees God at work in the lives of even the most hopeless and left-behind of our children? And that's why we need to not have a false division or debate about the role of faith-based institutions; we need to just do it and provide the support that is needed on an ongoing basis." - Talk to Action, May 4, 2008
And you know what I think about Hillary Clinton? Bless her boots, she is a real humanitarian!
Our society needs all the help it can get from any source willing to help.
Hillary and Obama both want the same kind of rules.
McCain says the current Bush plan is fine the way it is, doesn't need fixing.
Well, I feel it does need fixing. But I don't think the idea of faith-based initiatives is bad in and of itself. If done the right way, it can be more effective than wasteful government programs.