Advancing Community Employment (ACE)
Advancing Community Employment (ACE) Program
CMHA, through its Advancing Community Employment (ACE) program, fosters local economic development, promotes workforce-development, and ensures compliance with HUD Section 3 policy and guidelines. The ACE program connects CMHA residents with employment opportunities, such as those that become available as the agency repairs, upgrades, and renovates its existing housing stock.
CMHA, through its Advancing Community Employment (ACE) program, fosters local economic development, promotes workforce-development, and ensures compliance with HUD Section 3 policy and guidelines. The ACE program connects CMHA residents with employment opportunities, such as those that become available as the agency repairs, upgrades, and renovates its existing housing stock.
ACE Program FAQs
You can participate if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Your individual income for the previous or annualized calendar year was below $47,850.
- You are employed by an ACE business.
- You are a YouthBuild participant.
Participating in the ACE Program is a chance to:
- Be matched with training and paid work opportunities
- Achieve sustained employment and self-sufficiency
- Get information (through phone calls and emails) about upcoming work and training opportunities suited for your skills and preferences
You may apply by completing this ACE Worker Directory Application (Form DEI-8) and emailing to ACE@cmha.net.
Once your application is submitted, you will receive a call providing more information.
We also recommend that you register on HUD’s Opportunity Portal to be connected with additional opportunities.
Once your application is submitted, you will receive a call providing more information.
We also recommend that you register on HUD’s Opportunity Portal to be connected with additional opportunities.
No, the ACE Program now combines the old PAR Program with HUD's Section 3 regulations. But similar to the old PAR Program:
- ACE will continue providing access to job and training opportunities for such things as construction, office work, OSHA safety training, plumbing, and painting.
- ACE will also ensure CMHA residents are first in line for work and training opportunities.
CMHA's ACE Program is very similar to HUD's Section 3 regulations, which seek to provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income people (particularly those who receive government assistance for housing). Beyond HUD's Section 3 requirements, the ACE Program will also allow CMHA to directly recruit its own residents for job and training opportunities.
Please find information for businesses here.