Supported Work

Supported Work is one of CPM's best-known and most successful program areas. Working closely with MA Department of Transitional Assistance and a variety of community-based partner agencies, CPM employment programs match income-qualified men and women ready to enter the workforce with full and part-time jobs in business, industry and public service. Massachusetts' ongoing welfare-to-work movement is a major focus of this effort.

Since their creation in the mid-1980s, CPM's Supported Work and other job readiness programs have grown to be among the most successful state-supported employment services operated by a non-profit organization. Currently, over 400 MA employers and close to 800 CPM clients in search of brighter futures participate.

One key factor in the success of CPM's Supported Work model is the exceptional degree of personalized case management brought to the job search process. Few, if any other welfare-to-work approaches are able to equal CPM's level of hands-on support and help underscore reasons why this particular program is a leading welfare-to-work model of choice in Massachusetts.

Minimizing barriers
At the local level, case managers guide individuals referred by MA Department of Transitional Assistance through an eight-week Supported Work orientation. Solutions to important work-related family issues such as child care and access to public transportation are part of the practice of minimizing barriers to clients' finding and keeping good jobs.

Supported Work provides a continuum of employment assistance to TAFDC recipients, including on-the-job training and support services leading to permanent unsubsidized employment for recipients who are at most risk of long-term dependency on public assistance. The program offers a myriad of services including outreach and recruitment, program orientation and intake, testing and assessment, job development and marketing, pre-worksite training, supported worksite experience and post-placement services in addition to extensive case management and referral services.

Supported Work works from the employer perspective as well. Business incentives for those companies participating in the program include a subsidized on-the-job training period during which CPM assumes liability for hiring, payroll administration and other costs until the new employee eventually joins the payroll. Federal work opportunity Tax Credits are often available to employers as well.

Contact:   Ken Demers, Vice President
                (413) 442-2946

                Barbara Delancey, Regional Director, Western Mass
                (413) 734-2144

                Robin Jones, Regional Director, Eastern and Central Mass
                (617) 236-4378

Young Parents Program

Reducing welfare dependency among young parents

The Young Parent’s Program is part of the MA Department of Transitional Assistance Employment Services Program. The program is directed toward reducing welfare dependency among young parents, ages 14 to 21, who have not achieved a high school diploma or its equivalent. The YPP program assists young parents in obtaining a GED, securing employment, accessing post secondary training or schooling and ultimately achieving long term economic self-sufficiency. To this end CPM provides intake and initial assessment, GED instruction, case management, parenting classes, assistance in applying for entrance to post secondary schools, help with financial aid applications, pre-employment workshops and job placement, among many other services.

Contact:   Ken Demers, Vice President
                (413) 442-2946

                Nelly Roldan, Program Director
                (413) 272-2388

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