JAM ACADEMY

Income is only part of it.

For those working to overcome the effects of homelessness, addiction, mental-health struggles or abuse, employment can represent a barrier … or, as we continually discover, a unique opportunity.

Our Jobs And Mentoring (JAM) Academy is a built-in component of our Mercy Coalition staffing strategy. It seeks to employ individuals with lived experience in homelessness, addiction or trauma and provide them with steady income and intentional, targeted job-skills growth. In this way our workspace itself becomes another pocket of deliberately restorative community, seeking to identify individual strengths and put them to use serving the very populations that they know best.

The JAM Academy is characterized both by group trainings (see schedule, right) and weekly one-on-one meetings to work on individual and long-term employability goals.