Kentucky Chamber Foundation celebrates graduation of inaugural ‘Fair Chance Academy’ cohort

As a part of an ongoing effort to deal with Kentucky’s workforce challenges by hiring people in want of a second probability, the Kentucky Chamber Basis’s Workforce Restoration Program introduced the completion of its inaugural “Honest Probability Academy,” with 20 enterprise leaders from corporations 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 probability expertise.

This system befell 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 helpful 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.

Collaborating companies will now spend the subsequent three months implementing what they’ve realized, 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 purpose of being a good probability employer and offering extra alternatives and profession progress for the honest probability inhabitants.

“The Kentucky Chamber has lengthy been an advocate for addressing each the state’s low workforce fee and substance use dysfunction epidemic. With the Honest Probability Academy, we’re instructing employers find out how to recruit, rent and retain people with histories of substance use and provides them a good probability to rebuild their lives. That begins with significant employment,” stated Beth Davisson, Senior Vice President of the Kentucky Chamber Basis. “We’re excited to see how this initiative permits employers to faucet into a brand new workforce of people who find themselves prepared and prepared to work.”

“The Honest Probability Academy is a chance for companies to find out about their position in profitable restoration and decreasing recidivism probabilities for folks seeking to reenter the workforce,” stated Van Ingram, Govt Director of the Kentucky Workplace of Drug Management Coverage (ODCP). “I’ve appreciated the time spent amongst 20 enterprise leaders who wish to study greatest practices that may set their honest probability staff up for long-term success.”

The inaugural cohort included 20 individuals from throughout the state representing a wide range of industries, together with manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture:

“Our fellow Kentuckians have been hit arduous by substance use dysfunction, however because of the Honest Probability Academy, we now have a transparent roadmap to hiring people in restoration via offering jobs and alternatives for fulfillment,” stated Deborah Ramirez, Mubea, Inc. “As a part of Kentucky’s enterprise group, I’m assured this programming will enable us to be part of the answer to making a more healthy, stronger Commonwealth.”

“Employers have a possibility to help Kentuckians who’re in restoration and destigmatize addictin,” stated Lisa Beckett, Grey Development. “Due to the Honest Probability Academy, I really feel ready to take what I’ve realized again to my firm and assist present hope, alternative, and honest probabilities to those that want it most.”

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

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).

To study extra concerning the Kentucky Chamber Basis’s efforts and initiatives to deal with the substance use dysfunction disaster, go to kychamber.com.

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