Kentucky Chamber Foundation announces graduation of inaugural “Fair Chance Academy” cohort

FRANKFORT, Ky. — As a part of an ongoing effort to deal with Kentucky’s workforce challenges by hiring people in want of a second likelihood, the Kentucky Chamber Basis’s Workforce Restoration Program has introduced the completion of its inaugural “Honest Probability Academy,” with 20 enterprise leaders from firms of all industries and sizes graduating from this system in June. 

The enterprise leaders that participated within the Honest Probability Academy are licensed as “Honest Probability Employers” by the Kentucky Workplace of Drug Management Coverage and the Kentucky Chamber Basis. This certification serves as a transparent dedication to discovering, hiring, and retaining honest likelihood expertise.

This system occurred over the course of three full-day coaching classes, held on Might 11, Might 25, and June 8 on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce workplace in Frankfort. Throughout every session, employers gained beneficial coaching, info, and assets to efficiently foster transformational employment alternatives for people in restoration from substance use dysfunction who’re able to re-enter the workforce.

Taking part companies will now spend the following three months implementing what they’ve discovered, with the help of the Kentucky Chamber Basis’s Workforce Restoration Program. This partnership will proceed, as wanted, to help their enterprise within the long-term aim of being a good likelihood employer and offering extra alternatives and profession development for the honest likelihood inhabitants.

The inaugural cohort included 20 contributors from throughout the state representing quite a lot of industries, together with manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture:

The Kentucky Chamber Basis will choose one other cohort of employers to take part in subsequent 12 months’s Honest Probability Academy. The initiative is a part of the Kentucky Transformational Employment program, which launched in 2021 to supply a pathway for employers to assist extra Kentuckians attain long-term restoration from substance use issues. 

The Honest Probability Academy was established via funding from Isaiah Home, The Simply Belief, Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE), and the Kentucky Workplace of Drug Management Coverage (ODCP).

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