The following organizations have teamed to produce the Road To Re-Entry Employment Fair: St. Julien Communications Group, Houston Crime Coalition and Community Change Movement, City Council Member Jarvis Johnson, Professional Sales Institute of Houston, and Restoration Assistance Program.
About St. Julien Communication Group, LLC:
St. Julien Communications Group is a team of successful strategists, marketers, publicists, event coordinators, graphic designers, brand managers, interactive media developers, and web developers with a superb skill in combining lifestyle perspectives, graphics, media strategy, and computer technology. We continuously originate, recreate and escalate the demand of our clients’ brands, products, and services through innovative, creative, productive, and trendsetting techniques as market makers. Through the use of modern technology and marketing savvy, we customize messages to effectively reach their target audience.
About Houston Crime Coalition/Community Change Movement:
Houston Crime Coalition (HCC) is an arm of Community Change Movement, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It was organized to designed and test a new intervention that approaches violence in a fundamentally different way than other violence reduction efforts.
HCC works with community organizations, schools & universities, churches, former gang bangers, ex–offenders, hip hop artist, community leaders and politicians as a grass roots and marketing platform to improve the quality of life of Houston’s inter city neighborhoods. We focus on street-level outreach, conflict mediation, and the changing of community norms to reduce violence and crime by applying strategically creative marketing tactics.
About City Council Member Jarvis Johnson:
Jarvis is a native Houstonian, born in 5th Ward, Texas 38 years ago. He was born at St. Elizabeth Hospital to Larry Don Johnson and Cleo Glenn Johnson-McClaughlin. He attended Houston’s public schools and graduated from the Chinquapin School, a college preparatory located in Baytown. He received a BA in Communications from Texas Southern University and while there he was voted “Student of the Year†for his community work with children.
Prior to becoming a City Councilman he mastered being a community organizer. He worked with people who were mentally challenged; he helped to empower the youth in in the community and challenged them to improve their life conditions as well as their community. He coached young Black males to be responsible, he gave scholarships to high school graduates and he tutored parents. Jarvis empowered seniors by improving their living conditions as a result of refurbishing their homes and making their neighborhoods safe. He was the local representative for D.A.R.E. Pulse <http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp> , a national program that works in schools with boys who are at-risk, and for the last six years he has owned, with sister, seven daycares located in Humble, Pasadena, San Marcos, Austin, and Houston. He also owns with his family a chartered bus company.
As the Executive Director of the Phoenix Youth Outreach Center, Jarvis served in the trenches helping improve the educational opportunities for students in the 5th Ward area. He was a mentor and an advocate. He challenged parents to take a more active role in their children’s lives.
About City Council Member Jolanda Jones:
Jolanda Jones believes in a Houston where a kid like her can grow up to be a successful lawyer and businesswoman, a homeowner, even a member of City Council, and most importantly, a mom who can afford to give her son the opportunity for a bright future.
From a childhood of poverty to the Academic All American Hall of Fame, then on to a successful career as an attorney fighting to reform our criminal justice system, Jolanda Jones’ personal story sheds light on the kind of leadership, commitment, and teamwork she brings to Houston’s City Council.
Jolanda knows that our city government can make a real difference in the life of every Houston child, because it did for her. That’s why Council Member Jolanda Jones if fighting to make our neighborhoods safer, keep our economy growing, make our city work better and ensure every child in Houston had the best opportunity to learn.
About Workforce Solutions
Workforce Solutions is a public workforce development organization linking employers to job candidates and people to jobs. We provide comprehensive human resource services for businesses and residents of the 13-county Houston-Galveston Gulf Coast region, so employers can meet their workforce needs and individuals can build careers to compete in the global economy.
About Houston Area Urban League:
Established in 1910, The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. Today, the National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheads the non-partisan efforts of its local affiliates.
The Houston Area Urban League (The League) was founded in 1968 by a group of business professionals. Since then the Houston Area Urban League has been a voice for disadvantaged people of all races and has a long and distinguished record as an agency that offers tangible, lasting benefits to all members of the community without regard to age, sex, race, physical limitations or ethnic background.
About Professional Sales Institute of Houston:
The Professional Sales Institute of Houston (PSI) is a state wide outreach program designed to provide vocational services to recently released inmates on the processes and techniques involved in developing a sales or sales related career. PSI’s career/job preparedness training will provide sales and sales related communication and interaction skill sets as well as customer and workplace etiquette techniques. For those re-entering into the workplace after certification, our target is to find employment for no less than 75% of those who have received a passing grade after completing the course objectives.
About Restoration Assistance Program:
Restoration Assistance Program (RAP) is a community based program for persons affected by criminal activity and/or chemical dependency. RAP provides outpatient and transitional programming utilizing a systematic, faith-based approach therapeutically. Our goals for restoration are total abstinence from substance abuse and criminal activity, and sustained personal growth. Our primary goal is…“Restoring Lives…IHNâ€. Our philosophy is… Restoration is possible. We believe all human beings have the capacity to achieve personal growth through changes in the habits, attitudes and behaviors that have historically limited them from reaching their full potential. By providing a safe, therapeutic environment with a nurturing restoration staff and faith-based programming, we can help each person attain goals, which previously may have seemed impossible.
Event Partners
The following organizations have teamed to produce the Road To Re-Entry Employment Fair: St. Julien Communications Group, Houston Crime Coalition and Community Change Movement, City Council Member Jarvis Johnson, Professional Sales Institute of Houston, and Restoration Assistance Program.
About St. Julien Communication Group, LLC:
St. Julien Communications Group is a team of successful strategists, marketers, publicists, event coordinators, graphic designers, brand managers, interactive media developers, and web developers with a superb skill in combining lifestyle perspectives, graphics, media strategy, and computer technology. We continuously originate, recreate and escalate the demand of our clients’ brands, products, and services through innovative, creative, productive, and trendsetting techniques as market makers. Through the use of modern technology and marketing savvy, we customize messages to effectively reach their target audience.
About Houston Crime Coalition/Community Change Movement:
Houston Crime Coalition (HCC) is an arm of Community Change Movement, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It was organized to designed and test a new intervention that approaches violence in a fundamentally different way than other violence reduction efforts.
HCC works with community organizations, schools & universities, churches, former gang bangers, ex–offenders, hip hop artist, community leaders and politicians as a grass roots and marketing platform to improve the quality of life of Houston’s inter city neighborhoods. We focus on street-level outreach, conflict mediation, and the changing of community norms to reduce violence and crime by applying strategically creative marketing tactics.
About City Council Member Jarvis Johnson:
Jarvis is a native Houstonian, born in 5th Ward, Texas 38 years ago. He was born at St. Elizabeth Hospital to Larry Don Johnson and Cleo Glenn Johnson-McClaughlin. He attended Houston’s public schools and graduated from the Chinquapin School, a college preparatory located in Baytown. He received a BA in Communications from Texas Southern University and while there he was voted “Student of the Year†for his community work with children.
Prior to becoming a City Councilman he mastered being a community organizer. He worked with people who were mentally challenged; he helped to empower the youth in in the community and challenged them to improve their life conditions as well as their community. He coached young Black males to be responsible, he gave scholarships to high school graduates and he tutored parents. Jarvis empowered seniors by improving their living conditions as a result of refurbishing their homes and making their neighborhoods safe. He was the local representative for D.A.R.E. Pulse <http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp> , a national program that works in schools with boys who are at-risk, and for the last six years he has owned, with sister, seven daycares located in Humble, Pasadena, San Marcos, Austin, and Houston. He also owns with his family a chartered bus company.
As the Executive Director of the Phoenix Youth Outreach Center, Jarvis served in the trenches helping improve the educational opportunities for students in the 5th Ward area. He was a mentor and an advocate. He challenged parents to take a more active role in their children’s lives.
About City Council Member Jolanda Jones:
Jolanda Jones believes in a Houston where a kid like her can grow up to be a successful lawyer and businesswoman, a homeowner, even a member of City Council, and most importantly, a mom who can afford to give her son the opportunity for a bright future.
From a childhood of poverty to the Academic All American Hall of Fame, then on to a successful career as an attorney fighting to reform our criminal justice system, Jolanda Jones’ personal story sheds light on the kind of leadership, commitment, and teamwork she brings to Houston’s City Council.
Jolanda knows that our city government can make a real difference in the life of every Houston child, because it did for her. That’s why Council Member Jolanda Jones if fighting to make our neighborhoods safer, keep our economy growing, make our city work better and ensure every child in Houston had the best opportunity to learn.
About Workforce Solutions
Workforce Solutions is a public workforce development organization linking employers to job candidates and people to jobs. We provide comprehensive human resource services for businesses and residents of the 13-county Houston-Galveston Gulf Coast region, so employers can meet their workforce needs and individuals can build careers to compete in the global economy.
About Houston Area Urban League:
The Houston Area Urban League (The League) was founded in 1968 by a group of business professionals. Since then the Houston Area Urban League has been a voice for disadvantaged people of all races and has a long and distinguished record as an agency that offers tangible, lasting benefits to all members of the community without regard to age, sex, race, physical limitations or ethnic background.
About Professional Sales Institute of Houston:
The Professional Sales Institute of Houston (PSI) is a state wide outreach program designed to provide vocational services to recently released inmates on the processes and techniques involved in developing a sales or sales related career. PSI’s career/job preparedness training will provide sales and sales related communication and interaction skill sets as well as customer and workplace etiquette techniques. For those re-entering into the workplace after certification, our target is to find employment for no less than 75% of those who have received a passing grade after completing the course objectives.
About Restoration Assistance Program:
Restoration Assistance Program (RAP) is a community based program for persons affected by criminal activity and/or chemical dependency. RAP provides outpatient and transitional programming utilizing a systematic, faith-based approach therapeutically. Our goals for restoration are total abstinence from substance abuse and criminal activity, and sustained personal growth. Our primary goal is…“Restoring Lives…IHNâ€. Our philosophy is… Restoration is possible. We believe all human beings have the capacity to achieve personal growth through changes in the habits, attitudes and behaviors that have historically limited them from reaching their full potential. By providing a safe, therapeutic environment with a nurturing restoration staff and faith-based programming, we can help each person attain goals, which previously may have seemed impossible.