Initiative; Female Participants Counselor

Organization
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Jubilee Jobs of Lexington is a faith-based nonprofit that provides job search preparation, job placement, and post-employment support to Central Kentucky residents who want to work but face barriers to employment.

Mission Statement
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Jubilee Jobs of Lexington empowers people facing employment barriers to secure meaningful work and lasting success – restoring dignity, igniting hope, transforming lives, and strengthening communities.

Program
: The Mobile Outreach for Recovery & Employment (MORE)
Initiative is a 24-month project that brings Jubilee Jobs’ proven workforce development services directly into treatment and recovery settings for individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Many people in intensive outpatient programs (IOP), residential treatment, recovery housing, peer-support environments, and jail-based treatment pods cannot access employment assistance because they cannot leave their programs, have court-ordered attendance requirements, or lack transportation, while most treatment providers lack in-house workforce capacity.

MORE fills this gap by embedding job-readiness programming where clients already are, allowing them to remain fully engaged in treatment while preparing for work. This position primarily targets female participants and is mobile, delivering on-site employment support and Jubilee Jobs resources at recovery sites, community centers, detention centers, and similar locations across Central Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region.

Job purpose
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With consistent grace and respect for clients, the MORE Job Counselor creates employment opportunities for individuals in treatment and early recovery by meeting them where they are. Working on-site at recovery housing, treatment programs, community centers, and detention facilities, the Job Counselor identifies each participant’s skills, abilities, education, and training, and matches those strengths with appropriate, recovery-supportive jobs in the community.

The Job Counselor works closely with participants, employers, treatment and recovery partners, justice-system contacts, community social service agencies, and fellow staff.

In the course of this work, the Job Counselor gains firsthand understanding of the challenges facing people in recovery and people in poverty, develops deep knowledge of the local job market and recovery-supportive employers, and builds advanced nonprofit and networking skills within an established organization. Because employment is one of the strongest predictors of sustained recovery, this role directly strengthens participants’ recovery capital and treatment retention while preparing them for lasting work.