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Workforce outreach is departmental administrative authority; procurement and budget rules still apply.
The problem
The people who most need a path to better work are often the furthest from the building that offers it. A single workforce office downtown doesn't reach a parent in East Tampa without a car or a reliable internet connection.
The plan
Tampa Works takes job services on the road: mobile access points in neighborhoods — resume help, training sign-ups, employer connections, and benefits navigation — showing up where residents already are: libraries, churches, community events.
Routes and schedules are published so residents know when help is coming to their block, and every visit connects people to real openings and real training.
How you’ll know it’s working
- Mobile sites active across neighborhoods per month
- Residents served per quarter with published counts
- Job placements and training enrollments from mobile visits
- Follow-up contact rate with returning residents
From the Blueprint
- Wi-Fi-enabled mobile vans deploy to the top five unemployment zones for on-the-spot TaskTampa onboarding and interview scheduling.
- Tampa Works desks in five major libraries staff career coaches who rewrite resumes and prep residents for interviews.
- City Insights data identifies unemployment hot spots to route the mobile outreach vans.
- Months 1-3: launch Tampa Careers mobile tables; field ops run through the Tampa-Hillsborough library system and Community Engagement.
- Funding: CDBG and philanthropic grants; cost band low, covering vehicles and staffing.
Sources and research conditions
S01 pp. 313-318
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