Reentry Awareness Month 2025

Cleveland Reentry Month 2025 View the Events Every year the Office of Reentry hosts Reentry Week, a week dedicated to bringing awareness to the community about the many barriers and…

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Real-Time Takes: Housing

Access to housing is a key factor to economic mobility. Without a place to live, the wellbeing and safety of thousands of Clevelanders is compromised. Towards Employment sat down with Austin Cummings, Senior Researcher at the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research shed light on housing injustices within Cuyahoga County.

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Policy Pulse – Fall 2024

Timely workforce thoughts and actions that advance Towards Employment’s Policy Action Plan – to promote economic mobility, especially for those most impacted by systemic racism, through education and advocacy for a more equitable workforce system where everyone has access to family sustaining wages and quality jobs.

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Alisha Brooks-Hall

Alisha Brooks-Hall is standing tall. She is a young mother almost through college, on her way to becoming a social worker. As a graduate of one of the pre-release programs that Towards Employment offers, she started her second career journey while incarcerated. She did not let grief and loss get the best of her, even though it seemed in initial job searches all she heard was no. Alisha’s goal is to help people returning home from prison to create networks and find resources, so they can find strength to get back up and move forward.

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