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Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services
A Safe Haven’s Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurial Training
Brian M. Rowland, CEO
“It takes more than a big heart and a desire to help. It takes very resourceful
people with business skills, the ability
to pull in investors, and ways of developing empirical evidence to get
grants.”
From Financial Sector toA Safe Haven Early 1990s, flourishing as financial advisors
Scarcity of services for those in recovery
Began investing in abandoned real estate
Rehabbed 13-unit building and rented it to recovering addicts
Led to opening A Safe Haven Foundation in 1994
The Realization
In order for people to sustain their sobriety, they need stable
housing, living-wage employment, physical and
mental healthcare, and access to supportive services.
Today Annual Budget of $20 million
Served 50,000 individuals to date (currently 5,000/yr)
300 employees
1,300 beds across 33 sites throughout Chicagoland
Manage nearly 700 units of affordable housing
2750 W Roosevelt Rd
618 S Wabash
7355 N Damen
2049-57 W Jarvis
12551 S Alpine Dr
12543 S Alpine Dr
East Dundee
Behavioral health
Supportive and Transitional Housing
Case Management
Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Affordable Housing
Adult Education
JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
Program
From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency
Individuals with significant employment barriers benefit from A Safe Haven’s
social business enterprise model. Homeless men and women, Veterans, families, and individuals returning to the community re-enter the job market with
critical job skills.
Return on Investment Thousands of ASH clients now
supporting themselves & their families
Paying taxes
Contributing to their communities
20% of employees are Veterans
18 For-Profits provide:
Revenue
Jobs
Housing
A Safe Haven
Foundation501(c)3
Entrepreneurial Projects: Agency and Client Support
Support A Safe Haven
Provide necessary services for the agency Expand scope of opportunities offered
Support residents of A Safe Haven
Provide job training Real employment opportunities
ASH’s Main Campus
Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood
125,000 square feet main headquarters
Interim housing for up to 400 individuals
Multiple class rooms and computer lab
Training institute programs for SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Computer Lab
Classroom
Social Enterprises Talent Resource Services
Landscaping
Pest Control
Catering / Culinary Arts
Call Center (Sales/Customer Service)
Maintenance Services
Security Services
Be! Products
Talent Resource ServicesClients referred to industry-based job training, placement, and retention program in six high-demand industries very forgiving to those with employment barriers
Landscaping
Pest Control
Catering
Call Center
Maintenance
Security
FISCAL YEAR 2013
Transitional Job Placements: 585
Permanent Direct Hire Placements: 352
106 Employer Partners
2013 Job Placement Data
113 53
11
585
184
ASHF JOB PLACEMENT DATA (Jan - Dec CY'13)
Total= 937
ASHF DamenASHF KingstonASHF WestASHF SouthStaffing ServiceASH Main
Average Hourly Rate: $10.08106 Employer Partners
352 Direct-Hire Placements585 Staffing Job Placements
Landscaping
“…a team of horticulture experts and professionally trained urban landscape professionals committed to enhancing urban landscapes, with a greater purpose.”
Since 1994, a pioneer in Social Enterprise
Contracts with City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools
Pest Control
Licensed, bonded, and insured by the State of Illinois
Commercial and residential contracts
Green technology: State-of-the-art thermal remediation
Highly competitive rates
Catering &Culinary Arts
Graduates develop skills to succeed in any professional food service or hospitality environment
Boxed Lunch Event Catering
A Safe Haven Catering sustains our culinary food service job training program
Maintenance
On-the-job training program model
Basic janitorial skills, including green cleaning
Call Center
Develop customer service skills
Preparation for career in sales
Annual 5K RUN! To End Homelessness
Security
Be! Products: Cosmetic Nail Care
NEW Social Enterprise: Welding!
Grant awarded
Scheduled to launch in Fiscal Year 2015!
www.ASafeHaven.orgwww.ASafeHaven.org/Social-Enterprise/