From Homeless to Helping Others Get Off the Streets
“Chrysalis offers programs and training aimed at helping homeless and low-income people find jobs. It opened in 1984, and since then has served more than 60,000 individuals from centers in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, in Santa Monica and in Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley. We have classes in résumé writing, how to interview, and how to use technology to find and apply for jobs. And clients can get interview clothing, transportation assistance and food, and access to things like computers, phones, faxes and mailing addresses. Chrysalis also places clients in transitional jobs, which is how I started working for them.”