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Nonprofit seeks $500,000 in state funding to expand workforce training for people with histories of homelessness and incarceration
Summary
Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless requested $500,000 to expand Project Comeback paid work-experience slots and legal services for justice-involved participants, citing high rates of homelessness, addiction and justice involvement among applicants and positive employment outcomes for program graduates.
Jim Martin, executive director of the Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (ACE), requested $500,000 in FY26 funding to expand Project Comeback, ACE's workforce program for New Yorkers with homelessness, addiction and justice-involvement histories.
Program details and outcomes: Martin said Project Comeback provides adult…
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