I recently started mentoring a small group (3) of homeless people that have demonstrated computer proficiency under the auspices of a local Indianapolis homeless teen charity. We started with 3 and two have largely dropped out. One, however, is still going strong. We are using the Free Code Camp curriculum (goal is a front end engineering job) paired with side lessons from my own experience along with a class project so at the end the students have a public thing on the Internet that they can point to and say "I built that".
The jury is still out if this will succeed or not but I hope that it does and if so it will likely be expanded beyond its pilot stage.
On the encouraging front, I've seen the following progress:
* The student got paying work doing some wordpress stuff on the side so a side gig!
* The student got an Ubuntu based development environment up and running all on his own
The jury is still out if this will succeed or not but I hope that it does and if so it will likely be expanded beyond its pilot stage.
On the encouraging front, I've seen the following progress:
* The student got paying work doing some wordpress stuff on the side so a side gig! * The student got an Ubuntu based development environment up and running all on his own