Project Employ
Department of Occupational Therapy

Project Employ is a collaboration between Duquesne University's Department of Occupational Therapy and Bethlehem Haven, a consortium of service providers to homeless women. The purpose of this project is to provide case management, life and job skills training, and intensive employment services to homeless and formerly homeless men and women for a variable amount of time up to two years as a model of "best practice" in occupational therapy for student education and fieldwork.

The department has hired two full-time practice scholars through outside
funding from Bethlehem Haven and the Workforce Investment Act to serve 25 - 40 participants at Bethlehem Haven. Because this funding does not cover the entire fiscal year, Duquesne proposes to use COPC funds to continue their full-time services through the end of the university's fiscal year (June 30, 2003) to provide continuity in services to the clients before
next year's funding begins July 1, 2003. The department also proposes to
hire a part-time work-study student for six months to support the project
through tasks such as accompanying clients to CareerLinks and job
interviews, supporting service-learning projects and assisting in other
ways.

Contact: Patricia Crist or call 412-396-5945