Changing Lanes Inc

1.Our Organization will provide alternate pathways to career building job skills for the minority and underserved communities who lack a college education and the necessary job skills to compete in today's workforce. 

2.Changing Lanes solution is to thoroughly understand the needs and goals of each individual that attends our program. We will provide mental health support, structure and relevant job skills to minority and underserved communities that will create alternate career paths to sustainable jobs.

3.The benefits of our organization will change lives, by providing relevant job skills and training that will create career building opportunities to underserved and minority communities. Our curriculum is designed to promote; metal stability, self confidence, vocational trac, foundation and support courses in real estate management. If scaled in every major city where there is a lack of structure and education, our curriculum will discover the untapped talent that goes undiscovered in these communities.  

There are countless studies that show the percentage of students that graduate with a 4-year degree from minority low income and underserved communities is less than 50%.  For example, (The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Its latest research released in 2015 confirms that low-socioeconomic status (SES) students were less likely to complete their college education. After graduating high school, only 14 percent of low-SES students received a bachelor’s or higher degree within eight years compared to 29 percent of middle-income students.. 

One notable factor contributing to the problem is low income families due to lack of education, relevant job skills & structure. In response to the problem, our solution will provide alternate pathways to sustainable careers with higher salaries that don't require a four your degree by providing, support courses, vocation trac and foundation courses. However, mental health is the first issue to address because in the black & brown communities, it often goes undiagnosed and untreated. You can not be productive in anything if your mental health isn't in tact. 

Changing Lanes is a nonprofit job training & rehabilitation center that will serve minority low income and underserved communities by providing  mental health support and high-quality relevant job skills to compete in today's workforce while promoting homeownership to our clients.

Our organization will start with an intake process that will screen each clients mental health and provide support if needed. Once the professional does the evaluation and clears the client for our career building portion of the program. He/She may proceed.  

Individuals will go through a series of short term certified and hands trainings that will enhance their skill set to implement change while removing mental barriers. Our program will change lives by providing one on one counseling and career building support courses to minority low income and underserved communities that lack education and structure.

Building maintenance and Repair, Building code compliance are two areas of real estate that's always in high demand across the U.S. and that is one of our strong subjects. 

1.Our organization will serve, underserved communities, at risk youth, formerly incarcerated, immigrants by providing mental health support, relevant career building job skills, financial literacy and the road to homeownership. 

2.To come up with a solution, you first must understand the problem.  Changing Lanes will engage each client by providing one on one counseling to identify mental health issues (if any) and career goals, provide foundation courses, career building support courses and direction to alternate career paths on an individual bases to compete in today's workforce. 

3.In minority low income and underserved communities, there is lack of education, structure, mental health support and high-quality job skills to compete in today's workforce that's affordable. Most low income families are living on or below the poverty line. 

Our solution is to provide high-quality relevant job skills and financial literacy that will benefit all clients by making them a stronger candidate for employment with any company. 

In 2005, PubMED.gov studies shows that; Sixty-two percent of the clients in this study were gainfully employed after receiving vocational rehabilitation services. Individuals with sensory/communicative impairments had the highest success rate (75%) compared to 56% for the physical impairments group and 55% for those with mental impairments

The problem in low income and underserved communities is lack of education and structure needed to earn higher salaries and become middle class. MIT SOLVE current challenge reimagining alternate pathways to employment for those who lack a college degree, aligns with Our organization mission and goal. 

Our organizations curriculum is designed to provide mental health support, high quality relevant job skills, foundation and career building support courses in real estate management to compete in today's workforce. 

Our organization is a non-profit organization and will offer these services to low income minority and underserved communities free of charge. 

We believe that our organization will benefit those in minority low income and underserved communities across the united states. Changing Lanes will open our first location within the 5 boros of New York City. However, Our main goal is to have a location in every major city where low income minority and underserved communities are located across the united states. 

There are a total of 5 employees at the moment. However, when we are operational. We anticipate a total of 10 employees per location. 

All clients and employees of our organization (CHANGING LANES) must complete sexual harassment training, diversity, equity and inclusion training before he/she can began work or course studies. This will be mandatory for everyone. If this training is not completed successful he/she will not be accepted into our program. 

Sexual Harassment, Diversity, Equity and inclusion training will be required for everyone to repeat a few times a year, every year.  

Its important for our work environment to be stress free, comfortable workplace. 

If the workplace is comfortable, implementing our mission will not be an issue.  

There are alot of job training and rehabilitation centers out here. for example, Careerconnections.org & Chron.org. They offer construction job training and certification training for nursing etc. and mental health referrals. 

Another job training/rehabilitation center is NADAP, which provides healthcare and employment services for people with HIV/AIDs or the formerly incarcerated.

What makes our organization unique is our curriculum which consist of high-quality relevant job skills in real estate management and the that fact that you don't have to have a medical issue, be formerly incarcerated or the need for social services to attend our program. We will serve all who come from low income and underserved communities that can't afford to pay for a training center that will provide these types of services.

Our organization has a unique curriculum which offers individual counseling services to address mental health and to understand the needs and goals of each individual. We will provide high-quality relevant job training in real estate management, building code compliance and building maintenance that will create alternate career paths to sustainable jobs for those in low income minority and underserved communities who lack a formal education, structure and relevant job skills to compete in today's workforce. 

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Our theory of change is to break the poverty cycle of low income communities which is not privy to traditional higher education. Low income minority and underserved communities need high-quality relevant job skills and mental health services to break out of the cycle of poverty and move up to middle class status. These communities are the population that is on or below the poverty line. 

Through our learning activities, our short term outcomes are, our clients will receive high-quality job skills. 

Medium term outcomes for our clients. Obtain sustainable career building jobs and our long term outcome is for our clients is to ultimately become homeowners. 

Our organization curriculum is designed to ultimately elevate low income families to middle class through home ownership.

Statistics from the huffman post;

What makes buying a home such a singular wealth-building method in the U.S. economy?

It appreciates.

If nothing else, it’s a fairly reliable long-term investment. For decades, home prices have appreciated annually at average rates from about 3% to 5%. While the mortgage payments remain the same, market prices tend to rise, creating valuable home equity that increases a family’s net worth.

It is enhanced by leverage.

The unique power of this investment, though, is that it appreciates based on the entire value of the home. Equity accumulates on not only what you’re able to pay, but also what you borrow. That means that rather than earning 4% appreciation on the $10,000 down payment you fronted—or $400—you build equity on the full $100,000 value of the house—$4,000—as if you had invested all of that money yourself. You leveraged your $10,000 into a $100,000 investment.

It is forced savings.

Lastly, paying off the balance of a mortgage month by month is a forced savings mechanism that builds equity at the same time. And when the mortgage is up, you have something to show for it: ownership of a house that you can sell.

This blog was originally published on April 11, 2017 as “Homeownership as a Key Driver of wealth.

Our goal for the next year will be to establish the inaugural group of clients through a series of evaluations and focus group data collection. Guide them through the modules of the program starting with an evaluation, unto life skills, career building support courses and financial literacy courses to become contributing members of society and break the poverty cycle. 

The impact on the overall community is just as great as the impact on the individual. The newly acquired skills will help them find viable and sustainable employment. The five year plan would be to replicate this process on a higher scale by opening centers in low income minority and underserved communities across the United States. 

The long term goal to break the poverty cycle through home ownership.

The barrier that currently exists is the finances to get the program off the ground. Once this barrier has been crossed. We will implement the Changing Lanes mission and begin to have a positive impact on the community. A barrier that may exists in the next five years is the lack of interest in other similar cities around the United States. 

Our approach to addressing the financial barrier is applying for grants both private and governmental. We will also have a grassroots campaign to involve local businesses in the communities we are serving as well as other organizations which have similar target clients. These resources will help the program grow both in awareness and be able to provide the tools and materials necessary to be successful in the Changing Lanes Mission. For the barrier we foresee existing within the next five years, we will garner interest through the success rates of the program in previous cities and the impact it has had on these underserved, low income communities. 

We would like to be collecting the following data to help us decide which candidate has the best possibility of being a success story:

- clinical evaluation

- career interest

-education interest

-character analysis

Our team consists of individuals who have worked and currently work at non profit organizations, specifically as the Director of Education Training and Workforces and we also have a retired attorney that sits on our board of directors and the founders wife has a masters degree in social work and worked as a cast worker. These experiences in the operations, fiduciary responsibilities and program implementation skills are the necessary tools for a non profit to succeed. 

The Co-Founders both are products of the target market community. One was formerly incarcerated and the other an immigrant who both took the non traditional route of college and were able to receive certifications and skills that helped them achieve sustainable employment which raised their socioeconomic statuses by ultimately becoming homeowners. These same skills will be taught to individuals who come from similar backgrounds and circumstances. 

We have advisors from The Covenant House, NYC. and two college professors that have been assisting us with the curriculum and course development. 

We also have an attorney as an advisor and legal support.

  Our organization's mission is to educate and uplift minority low income communities by providing high-quality relevant job training and career building support courses to compete in today's workforce.  

Our clients will go through an intake evaluation to identify underlying mental health issues and provide referrals for treatment. If there is no underlying mental health issues. The next step in the intake evaluation is to understand the needs and goals of each client. Our organization will provide foundation and career building support courses, financial literacy, building and maintaining credit and teach our clients the importance of homeownership. Most of our courses can be completed online and some of them will required in person learning. 

We will also require face mask and social distancing to comply with COVID19 regulations.

Our organization was created based of the new economy to provide underserved communities a career building skill set to compete workforce and ultimately become homeowners and break the poverty cycle that has pledge low income families for decades. 

We have experienced grant writers that will apply for government grants. We plan to serve all clients that are receiving public assistance, men and women in homeless shelters and all who were release from a federal or state institution. 

We will also serve minority low income and underserved communities.

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We have enlisted grant writers who are well experience and will help us apply for the appropriate grants base on the communities we will serve. 

We will serve a wide range of clients who were release from local federal or state institutions.

However, as of now the start-up source of income will come from our current real estate equity which is about $250,000

$500,000

In today's claimant there are alot of jobs that go unfilled due to lack of education and specialized training. 

Changing curriculum is a variety of high demand skill sets that have a short term certification process allowing our clients to enter the workforce expeditiously. 

Our organization mission is the help break the poverty cycle of low income communities which is not privy to traditional higher education. Low income minority and underserved communities need high-quality relevant job skills and mental health services to break out of the cycle of poverty and move up to middle class status. These communities are the population that is on or below the poverty line. 

Through our learning activities, our short term outcomes are, Our clients will receive high-quality job skills. 

Medium term outcomes for our clients; Obtain sustainable career building jobs and our long term outcome is for our clients is to ultimately become homeowners. 

We are a new, up and coming agency that needs funding to activate our mission. Our organization will use all avenues to help discover the right people with compassion to help us deliver our mission to those in underserved communities. We also want to monitor and evaluate future success stories to help grow our organization.

Our organization is in the start-up phase and to grow, will need assistance with marketing, media and exposure. 

Our organization would like to partner with NYC Department of Corrections, Men and Women's Shelters for starters and the juvenile correctional facilities. 

Our organization's mission will changes lives in this population by providing high-quality relevant job skills, mental health counseling, direction and support which will aid the fight against homeless, strengthen the rehabilitation process and create productive members of society.

I would like a direct link to NYC Department of Corrections, The shelters and Juvenile facilities to assist with entering society and equipment them with a set of skills that will help them succeed in life.