twenty years of integrating entrepreneurship and social services

Twenty Years Of Integrating Entrepreneurship and Social Services

A Safe Haven’s Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurial Training

Brian M. Rowland, CEO

“It takes more than a big heart and a desire to help. It takes very resourceful

people with business skills, the ability

to pull in investors, and ways of developing empirical evidence to get

grants.”

From Financial Sector toA Safe Haven Early 1990s, flourishing as financial advisors

Scarcity of services for those in recovery

Began investing in abandoned real estate

Rehabbed 13-unit building and rented it to recovering addicts

Led to opening A Safe Haven Foundation in 1994

The Realization

In order for people to sustain their sobriety, they need stable

housing, living-wage employment, physical and

mental healthcare, and access to supportive services.

Today Annual Budget of $20 million

Served 50,000 individuals to date (currently 5,000/yr)

300 employees

1,300 beds across 33 sites throughout Chicagoland

Manage nearly 700 units of affordable housing

2750 W Roosevelt Rd

618 S Wabash

7355 N Damen

2049-57 W Jarvis

12551 S Alpine Dr

12543 S Alpine Dr

East Dundee

Behavioral health

Supportive and Transitional Housing

Case Management

Drug and Alcohol Treatment

Affordable Housing

Adult Education

JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

Program

From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency

Individuals with significant employment barriers benefit from A Safe Haven’s

social business enterprise model. Homeless men and women, Veterans, families, and individuals returning to the community re-enter the job market with

critical job skills.

Return on Investment Thousands of ASH clients now

supporting themselves & their families

Paying taxes

Contributing to their communities

20% of employees are Veterans

18 For-Profits provide:

Revenue

Jobs

Housing

A Safe Haven

Foundation501(c)3

Entrepreneurial Projects: Agency and Client Support

Support A Safe Haven

Provide necessary services for the agency Expand scope of opportunities offered

Support residents of A Safe Haven

Provide job training Real employment opportunities

ASH’s Main Campus

Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood

125,000 square feet main headquarters

Interim housing for up to 400 individuals

Multiple class rooms and computer lab

Training institute programs for SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Computer Lab

Classroom

Social Enterprises Talent Resource Services

Landscaping

Pest Control

Catering / Culinary Arts

Call Center (Sales/Customer Service)

Maintenance Services

Security Services

Be! Products

Talent Resource ServicesClients referred to industry-based job training, placement, and retention program in six high-demand industries very forgiving to those with employment barriers

Landscaping

Pest Control

Catering

Call Center

Maintenance

Security

FISCAL YEAR 2013 

Transitional Job Placements: 585

Permanent Direct Hire Placements: 352

106 Employer Partners

2013 Job Placement Data

113 53

11

585

184

ASHF JOB PLACEMENT DATA (Jan - Dec CY'13)

Total= 937

ASHF DamenASHF KingstonASHF WestASHF SouthStaffing ServiceASH Main

Average Hourly Rate: $10.08106 Employer Partners

352 Direct-Hire Placements585 Staffing Job Placements

Landscaping

“…a team of horticulture experts and professionally trained urban landscape professionals committed to enhancing urban landscapes, with a greater purpose.”

Since 1994, a pioneer in Social Enterprise

Contracts with City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools

Pest Control

Licensed, bonded, and insured by the State of Illinois

Commercial and residential contracts

Green technology: State-of-the-art thermal remediation

Highly competitive rates

Catering &Culinary Arts

Graduates develop skills to succeed in any professional food service or hospitality environment

Boxed Lunch Event Catering

A Safe Haven Catering sustains our culinary food service job training program

Maintenance

On-the-job training program model

Basic janitorial skills, including green cleaning

Call Center

Develop customer service skills

Preparation for career in sales

Annual 5K RUN! To End Homelessness

Security

Be! Products: Cosmetic Nail Care

NEW Social Enterprise: Welding!

Grant awarded

Scheduled to launch in Fiscal Year 2015!

www.ASafeHaven.orgwww.ASafeHaven.org/Social-Enterprise/