Why Don’t They Just Get a Job? Chronicles Cincinnati Works’ success

Soon to be released is Why Don’t They Just Get a Job? by Liane Phillips and Echo M. Garrett. Liane and her husband Dave have provided a self-supporting model for development of human capacity in the workplace. I met the Phillips a few years back. They told me at that time that the concepts in A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Bridges Out of Poverty had been used as resources to help them understand and provide the supports needed as they assisted in transitioning folks out of poverty.

These are some of the things I like about their community development program model:

No government funding is used
The ability of the team to identify barriers to steady attendance at work, along with the creative and rapid ways in which they overcome their barriers
Interventions for former gang members who wish to be successful at work and gain employment
The nonprofit is operated in a very businesslike, no-nonsense manner
Each person coming to the doors of Cincinnati Works is valued for his or her unique abilities
They successfully place a high number of clients in jobs, especially among those from poverty and minority males

If your community is looking for another next step toward community sustainability, this replicable model is one that directly addresses the employment of those in generational poverty.

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-Ruby Payne

Philip DeVol2020-06-26T16:37:02-05:00February 9th, 2010|Community|

About the Author: Philip DeVol

Phil DeVol is an international consultant who has been working with aha! Process since 1997. He used aha! Process concepts to make institutional changes at the addiction treatment center where he was the executive director for 19 years. During this time he also co-wrote Bridges Out of Poverty with Ruby Payne and Terie Dreussi-Smith. His book Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-by-World is being used to engage people in poverty in the work of building communities where everyone can live well. It worked so well that DeVol used it as a basis for a prison reentry model called Getting Ahead while Getting Out. He works with community leaders to help them move quickly from an attraction to application of Bridges concepts. Getting Ahead and Bridges are being used in hundreds of communities in the U.S., as well as a number of sites in Canada, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. His books have been translated into Spanish, Slovak, and Czech.