MoDOT partners with reStart to create job opportunities for Kansas City homeless

In 2010 the MoDOT and reStart Inc., an interfaith ministry that works with homeless persons, began a work program to employee homeless citizens. The workers pick up trash and beautify state-run roadways in the city’s urban core.

Paid a standard minimum wage, the new employees are given the necessary safety equipment and training, as well as transportation to and from the work site.

In this partnership with MoDOT, six to nine homeless persons have the opportunity to go to work every day and earn a wage that will help them reestablish independence and potentially regain a home and security.

reStart provides shelter and supportive services to homeless men, women, youth and families with the goal of helping them move toward independence and self-sufficiency, and ultimately ending homelessness in our community.

• Kansas City has the seventh largest homeless population per capita
• 56 percent are mothers and children.
• Missouri has the fourth highest percent of homeless veterans.
• In 2009, reStart served 7,501 homeless persons.

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