TWA Partners

Volunteers throughout Missouri support TWA in multiple ways, including working with individual jobseekers outside of job fair time to prepare and connect them with employers. They also provide administrative support on projects such as tracking recidivism, updating resource lists and doing research.

In conversation with TWA staff, volunteers apply their own gifts and talents in supportive ways. For example, we are grateful to one of our ongoing volunteers whose passion is cycling who connects our jobseekers with recycled bikes!  

Contact Meredith Rataj for information on how to connect to volunteer opportunities around Missouri in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia.

Volunteers serve as a force multiplier for our St. Louis area job fairs by providing one-on-one coaching with jobseekers. 

Volunteers attend a virtual training to review expectations, learn about the job fair process, and discuss special considerations when coaching a justice-involved jobseeker. After training, volunteers are paired with a justice-involved jobseeker to coach through the job fair.
Volunteers connect individually in person (at least once) and via phone/virtually with their jobseeker according to what works best for both schedules. Volunteers communicate with SLU TWA staff on how it's going and how we can help.

How it Works

• Commit to one to two hours per week for 9-10 weeks
• Before the job fair, help a jobseeker prepare by setting up email and voicemail accounts; writing a resume; and recording a 2-minute video resume to be shown to potential employers.
• After the virtual job fair, assist with online job applications, interview preparation, and employer follow-up.
• Contact Meredith Rataj for information on how to sign up to be a St. Louis area job fair volunteer.

• St. Louis County Port Authority
• Missouri Department of Corrections
• Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis
• Bob Barker Foundation

• Stanley Black & Decker
• Pershing Charitable Trust
• Incarnate Word Foundation

• Al Franken for Senate
• AyCorp Media, LLC
• Centene Charitable Foundation
• Clark-Fox Family Foundation
• Commerce Bank
• Eric & Amy Holland Charitable Foundation
• IMC Outdoor Living
• Jack and Rachel Oliver
• Katie Sinquefield
• Mimi & Peter Haas Foundation
• Regional Business Council
• Royal Hansen
• Stephen and Angela Strum
• US Bank
• Viceroy Development Group
• Walmart

• Start Here Resource Guide
• Housing/Transitional Housing
• Child and Family Empowerment Center
• Criminal Justice Ministry
• Dismas House
• Keyway Center for Diversion and Reentry
• Soulfisher Ministries
• St. Patrick Center
• Viewpoints

• CAASTLC (Community Action Agency of St. Louis County)
• Connections to Success
• Employment Connections
• Fathers and Family Support
• Mission St. Louis
• SLATE (St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment)
  
  Reentry
  Concordance

• St. Francis Xavier College Church
• Ashrei Foundation North City Photo ID Project

• Federal
  • Eastern District of Missouri
  • Southern District of Illinois
  • US Department of Justice
• State
  • Missouri
  • Illinois
• Courts
  • St. Louis County Diversion Program
  • St. Louis County Justice Center

• Saint Louis University Prison Education Program
• Washington University’s Prison Education Project
• Excel Centers
• NPower
• Thomas Dunn
• Vocational Rehabilitation

• Independence Center
• MPower
• Places for People
• Urban League

• OTTIS (Occupational Therapy Transition and Integration Services)
• Prison Performing Arts