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Fair Chance Hiring: Creating Opportunity, Building Careers, and Strengthening the Workforce

JBM Packaging’s Fair Chance journey began in 2016 with a simple belief: a person’s past should not automatically determine their future. Over the past decade, that belief has evolved into a comprehensive workforce strategy focused not only on providing employment opportunities, but also on creating the support, development, and career pathways people need to build long-term success.

Shifting Work Forward in Cincinnati and Beyond

Get to Know the Fair Chance Work Group: Part 1

Over the past year, we have convened a small group of providers who connect returning citizens to needed supports and help them overcome the barriers that they face. We call this consortium the Fair Chance Work Group, and our aim is to collaborate on strategies for expanding opportunity and reducing barriers for returning citizens.

Chamber’s workforce center launches new job initiative with national partner | Cincinnati Business Courier

The Cincinnati Regional Chamber’s Workforce Innovation Center is partnering with TNTP, a national organization seeking to expand economic mobility for every young person, and has started a three-year program boosting career-connected learning for Cincinnati youth.

Chamber’s workforce center launches new job initiative with national partner | Cincinnati Business Courier

Recognizing Recovery in the Workforce

Cincinnati Career Pathways Initiative: Expanding Career-Connected Learning Opportunities for Young People

Three-year effort will strengthen access, alignment, and navigation of career pathways through community-centered design

Cincinnati Career Pathways Initiative: Expanding Career-Connected Learning Opportunities for Young People

Three-year effort will strengthen access, alignment, and navigation of career pathways through community-centered design

Number One in Business, Building the Workforce to Match

One Year In: How the Fair Chance Working Group Is Building a Stronger Workforce Ecosystem

Employers across our region are trying to solve many of the same difficult problems. They’re looking for reliable talent, working to improve retention, and managing ongoing workforce shortages. At the same time, community organizations help legal system-involved individuals rebuild their lives through employment every day. Too often, though, employers, workforce providers, and support organizations have been working toward the same goal without a consistent way to connect their efforts: committed partners in need of better coordination.

Workforce in the Spotlight

From Fair Chance to Real Opportunity: How CQEs and CQHs Help Ohio Businesses Access Talent

As a remedy to employment barriers due to prior criminal records, some Ohioans can apply to their sentencing court to request their records to be expunged or sealed, destroying or hiding the record from the general public, but these forms of relief are limited to less serious offenses—even though all Ohioans with criminal records need employment and housing relief. Acknowledging this need, the Ohio legislature created additional forms of relief, the Certificate of Qualification for Employment in 2012 and the Certificate of Qualification for Housing in 2024, to bolster the economy and reduce recidivism.

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