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MRC Special Projects

In addition to its fee-for-service programming, MRC receives government and foundation funding to provide specialized services to individuals and/or special populations who otherwise would not be able to receive services due to lack of funding. Currently, MRC is operating the following grant-funded projects:

Jobs For Veterans – MRC Twin Cities

Jobs For Veterans is a training and employment project funded through the U.S Department of Labor that began originally in July 2006 and was refunded in 2009 to prepare recently returning, honorably discharged veterans for “green occupations” in the civilian work place.

Jobs For Veterans serves 60 honorably discharged veterans with disabilities per project year. These veterans receive “green occupations” career skills training, case management, individualized support services, job placement and employment retention services in the Twin Cities. Components of the project include:

• A minimum of 50 hours of “Green Occupations” career skills training to enhance veterans’ existing job search skill sets and provide them with additional technology training of up to 400 hours to fill newly designed green related job openings
• Case management services to assist veterans with both personal and community service related needs
• Individualized placement and job retention services to veterans that include a directed job search process, weekly job clubs, resume development, mock interviews and face-to-face contact with business partners. Once employed, veterans will receive up to 12 months of job support services.

For more information on the project services and entrance criteria, call Meghan O’Brien at 612-752-8140.

Prepare To Learn – MRC Twin Cities

Prepare To Learn assists youth with disabilities prepare for postsecondary education and is funded through MnSCU/Perkins IV.

For more information on the project services and entrance criteria, call Lena Balk at 612-752-8138.

Project LEAD the Way – MRC St. Cloud

Project LEAD the Way services immigrants and refugees living in central Minnesota in the areas of skills training and employment – funded throught the Bremer, Morgan Family and Initiative Foundations.
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