Financial Stability
This number impacts a person's ability to buy a house, buy a car and sometimes get a job
What is a credit score?
This program shifted the FOC network from placing clients into jobs to connecting them to a career pathway.
What is BCO?
This is a collaborative launched and led by United Way of Greater Houston
What is THRIVE?
The complete name for LISC.
What is Local Initiatives Support Corporation?
Houston is the ____ most populous city in the United States with a population of over 2.2 million.
What is the 4th largest?
This tool allows a client to build their credit while making monthly payments, and receive matching funds
What is Twin Accounts?
This useful exercise allows a client to practice their skills answering employment questions before getting a job.
What is a mock interview?
This group's name translates to the phrase "To Be"
What is SER?
The year that LISC opened it first FOC in Houston.
What is 2010?
The lack of this in Houston creates unique challenges and opportunities in city planning and development
What is zoning?
Examples of this are: a car, house, savings
What are assets?
This is the biggest employer in Houston.
What is Walmart?
This group formed in the 1880s and served immigrants working near the railway in the North of Houston
What is Wesley?
The name of the data system we used before Salesforce
What is ETO?
These are two major players in our regional economy and workforce
Port of Houston and the Medical Center.
This is what the acronym COACH stands for.
What is competency, outcomes, action, and checking
In Houston, this is considered a living hourly wage for a single adult
What is $18?
The name of the Houston network's new FOC in Third Ward
What is Project Row Houses?
The number of FOCs across the country
What is ~90?
Expanded in the last few years, this system for commuters went from 7.5 miles to over 25 miles.
What is the Light Rail System or METRO Rail?
This bureau was formed from the Dodd Frank Legislation. The purpose is to oversee financial regulations.
What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
This piece of legislation allowed for financial literacy to be an allowable cost for federal workforce dollars.
What is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)?
The neighborhood that LISC will launch an FOC in by 2020.
What is OST/South Union?
This is a place-based, comprehensive community development initiative for revitalizing Houston communities
What are GO Neighborhoods?
This is a common application and coordination system for low-to-moderate income seekers of home repair services who have been affected by Hurricane Harvey.
What is Harvey Home Connect?