AGENCY PARTICIPATION

Agency Information Booklet

Please participate in Take the Step – A job skills event organized by the East Texas Human Needs Network! The event takes place on Wednesday, September 12 from 10 am to 6 pm, at the City of Tyler Rose Garden Center.

​The event provides practical information and resources to individuals who face barriers to employment. A brief intake, assessment, and referral process will be utilized to identify each ndividual’s barriers and have them meet with agencies like yours that are able to assist them.

We are inviting agencies that provide services to help remove barriers broadly defined as:

• Personal and financial
• Emotional and physical
• Career decision-making and planning
• Job-seeking knowledge
• Training and education

Additional detail on Employment Barriers

Making it accessible:

​It is difficult for us to anticipate the number of participants, but we are developing a comprehensive plan to make the event accessible to our target audience. This plan includes access to transportation to and from the event, and access to on-site childcare during the event. 

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YOUR AGENCY

You are asked to do what you do best, establish a relationship, assess needs, provide guidance and resources, and make a follow-up appointment.

​If you are interested in being a part of the second annual Take the Step – A job skills event, please complete the Agency Participation Form linked below before Friday, August 24th. 

If you need additional information or cannot attend, please email to info@ethnn.org  

Agency Participation Form

ETHNN

​ETHNN will provide marketing materials, website listing and links, tables, chairs, access to electricity and Wi-Fi, a hospitality room, and t-shirts for agency staff and volunteers.

​ETHNN will follow-up with event participants in order to measure outcome indicators.
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Setup will take place from 7 to 9 am on September 12.

Agency staff and volunteers will participate in a walk-through and orientation  at 9 am.

​Door open at 10 am and close at 6 pm.
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Breakdown will take place from 6 pm to 8 pm.  

PARTICIPANTS

Each participant will receive a folder with:

• copies of their intake and assessment*,
• an event guide and referral form,
• an event floor map,
• an informative directory of agencies,
• a flash drive for resumes' and other information you could download for them, and
• a bag to keep everything in one place.

*In order to protect the privacy of each participant, a single intake and assessment will be conducted as they enter the event. 
Each participant will receive multiple copies of their completed intake and assessment document to give to each agency they visit. This will ensure that questions of a personal nature are not asked where others can listen.