Posts Tagged ‘Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency’
At graduation ceremony, nearly 100 formerly incarcerated people celebrate new jobs
Nearly 100 people—mostly formerly incarcerated people—graduated from BOSS’s Career Training and Employment Center this year.
Read MoreBOSS graduates celebrate changing their own lives
Stay the course. That was the message given to those sitting in the front row of Oakland’s city council chambers Friday night, when friends and supporters gathered to watch 29 men and women graduate from the BOSS Career Training and Employment Center, in a ceremony that acknowledged the significant hurdles they had overcome to gain…
Read MoreBOSS and Albany High School students host homeless resource fair in Oakland
BOSS staffers joined hands with Albany High School students to help some 1,000 people address a variety of health and social needs at their first homeless resource fair held in Oakland. Based on an event the organization holds in San Francisco called the Homeless Project Connect, executive director Donald Frazier said he decided it was time to try the project in the East Bay.
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