The City of Atlantic City’s Homeless Outreach unit, under the Department of Health and Human Services, kicked off its Hope Work Initiative, a new program that provides temporary employment for homeless individuals with the City. Through the program, ten individuals who the City’s Homeless Outreach unit encountered during their daily homeless sweeps in Atlantic City are offered a job with the City of Atlantic City Department of Public Works. These individuals work 15-hour weeks (five hours a day, three days a week) in the Public Works Beach and Boardwalk, Sanitation and Building Maintenance divisions. The individuals earn $75 a day, money that comes from the City’s Opioid Settlement funds at no cost to the taxpayers of Atlantic City. The Hope Work Initiative employees are fully supervised during their work hours. City of Atlantic City Social Worker Anthony Woodard oversees the program.

Upon successful completion of the ten-week program, the City will strongly consider hiring the participants in the Hope Work Initiative to permanent employment with the City. The City also hopes to move forward with this program in the future, possibly employing more than ten individuals at a time.

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