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Kentucky Chambers Fair Chance Academy aims to teach employers to hire justice-involved workers
Summary
Ryan Bowman described the Fair Chance Academy and a curriculum aimed at translating recovery and justice-related language for HR and business leaders, plus free resources and live documents hosted for employers on KentuckyComeback.com.
Ryan Bowman, director of partnerships for the Kentucky Chamber Foundation, said a major obstacle was that employers did not understand recovery and justice system terminology, so the Chamber developed the Fair Chance Academy to bridge that gap and present second-chance hiring as a workforce-development strategy. "We created this program called the Fair Chance Academy, where we develop these kind of translations between our world... and really use that in business acumen," Bowman said.
He described the Chambers approach as practical and employer-focused: regional academies invite the front-line staff who field hiring inquiries and a live, regularly updated set of documents and a website (KentuckyComeback.com) provide tools and partner contacts for employers seeking to build pipelines with recovery and justice facilities.
