According to Time, House Three Thirty, which is open to anyone in Akron, will provide hands-on job training in sectors such as plumbing, heating and cooling, food service, merchandising, accounting and event planning.
“House 330 is going to be a sanctuary for our families,” James said, according to Time. “It’s going to be a place where all our families can grow and learn. This will be a hub for everything possible our families will need.”
Interestingly, the concept for House Three Thirty began organically as the James foundation’s executive director, Michele Campbell, began responding to I Promise Village residents’ complaints and needs.
“It really started, much like everything we do, from the ground up,” Campbell said. “You have more intimate relationship when you have people living in your building 24/7. We started listening to some of the struggles with employment and job training and really digging deeper with our families. So we learned pretty quickly that the next part of the movement, if you’re to going to change the trajectory of a whole community, was we need that job-training piece.”
