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Service providers urge stipends, childcare and housing supports to improve training completion and job retention
Summary
Nonprofit providers at the D.C. roundtable said trainees commonly face food, childcare, transportation and housing barriers that derail training; organizations urged sustained stipends, predictable scheduling from employers and employer incentives to improve retention and career outcomes.
Advocates and nonprofit providers told the D.C. Council’s Committee on Executive Administration and Labor on April 20 that training programs can only succeed when participants’ basic needs are addressed.
Why it matters: several providers described high placement and credential rates when training was paired with support services — and lower completion and placement when supports were missing. They urged city and private funders to scale stipends, childcare subsidies, transportation help and housing assistance in order to widen access.
Provider testimony and data - So Others Might Eat (SOME).…
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