Systems Work Better Together: Strengthening Public Workforce & Homeless Service Systems Collaboration

The public workforce system and homeless service system both encounter and serve jobseekers experiencing homelessness or housing instability. A wealth of evidence links employment success and housing stability. The public workforce system’s goal is to help people succeed in employment, while the homeless service system’s goal is to get people stably housed. To achieve these interconnected goals, the public workforce system has a clear stake in its participants’ housing stability and the homeless service system has one in its participants’ access to employment and economic opportunity. These systems can best achieve their interrelated goals through collaboration.

Publication Date: 
2018