Your HUD Section 3 Compliance Solution

In 1997, we began working with PHA residents on Section 3 Compliant training, employment, and contracting.  Today, we have the longest track record of providing support and professional development programming to public housing agencies, developers, contractors, residents, and housing associations throughout the nation.  Our training materials have been approved by the State’s Department of Labor Vocational Rehabilitation Services and the trainers are all DOL approved with cleared criminal background checks conducted by the state.

All Trainings Include:

• FREE Contractor/Staff Briefing on Section 3  
• Completion of the HUD 60002 Showing all Training Participants
• Pre-screening of Trainees for Local Contractors interested in hiring Section 3 Persons
• Resident/Area Recruitment and Self-Certification of Qualified Section 3 Persons and Persons with Disabilities
• Certificate of Completion for all Training Participants
• One Year FREE follow-up for all Trainees and Clients
• Application and Resume Assistance
• Workplace Conflict intervention to Sustain Employment
• Referral Services for Local Support on Any Employment Related Issues
• Support to Client’s Contractors seeking to Employ or Train Residents

The most productive, least expensive, and sustainable solution to Section 3 Compliance is Training. Training is the fundamental building block for all people and it remains a bellwether of long term employment.

Training Options include:

• Employment Readiness Training - 24 Hours
• Employment Readiness and Social/Adjustment Training  - 40 or 48 Hours
• Employment Readiness Training, Social/Adjustment Training  and Construction Trade Skills Classroom Video Training – 80 Hours
• Employment Readiness Training, Social/Adjustment Training  and Small Business Concern Development Training - 80 Hours
• Employment Readiness Training, Social/Adjustment Training  and Small Business Concern Development Training with Construction Trade Skills Classroom Video Training - 120 Hours
• Triangle of Success© Training Program which includes all the training components in #5 but is complimented by an extensive Hands-On, Paid, Trade Skills Training.  For construction projects with a minimum 12 month building schedule only.  At the conclusion of the training period, contractors are encouraged to hire the trainees.

We work with our clients to tailor a program that best fits the local politics, employment, regulations, labor agreements, agency policies, and client concerns.  Our years of experience in this area tell us that educational programming is an essential first step for low-income residents before employment and certainly contracting. 

Though we have seen great successes in developing small business concerns, the model person is very hard to find and the amount of support is extensive and expensive.   The risk of failure is too substantial to be considered a first step, unless the Qualified Section 3 Concern has prior experience and understands the reporting requirements for certified payrolls, Davis Bacon requirements, and the other many issues relative to operating the business.

Call us for a proposal with curriculum outline that will help you meet your HUD Section 3 requirements in a proven and simplified method that calls for almost no staff involvement.

WE ARE THE NATIONS LEADING SECTION 3 EXPERTS

Motivation, Inc. is dedicated to expanding opportunities for the less advantaged and disabled as part of our everyday work activities. Our firm has provided consulting services to public housing authorities, affordable housing landlords, and developers since 1991. Additionally, we are service providers to the Georgia Department of Labor Vocational Rehabilitation Services (GDOL-VR) providing Job Readiness, Personal and Social Adjustment, Data Entry, and Construction Trades trainings throughout the state. We are members of, and maintain a strong relationship with the Georgia Association of Housing and Redevelopment Authorities (GAHRA), The Georgia Rehabilitation Association (GRA), and have facilitated multiple presentations for GAHRA, GRA, and the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) over the past several years at state and national conferences.

Since 1997, Motivation, Inc. and its leadership has been involved in the development and support of Section 3 Business Concerns. We are the foremost leaders in Section 3 Resident Training and Business Development in the Southeastern United States, if not the entire country. Based on information from our clients, we are the only professional full-time consulting firm in the nation that has a comprehensive, structured 15 module personal and professional empowerment training program that has been time tested over the past five years. We feel our firm is uniquely qualified to enter into this partnership based on our ten (10) years of progressive knowledge of Section 3, history and involvement as public housing resident trainers, practicing contractors utilizing Section 3 concerns, and business developers of multiple Section 3 business concerns.

Other groups and locations where Training has been provided:

2003
• Hollywood Courts Apartments Residents, Management Staff, Contractors, and Atlanta Housing Authority Staff
• Bankhead Courts Resident Council and Select Contractors
• Montezuma, GA-Flint Area Consolidated Housing Authorities Staff and Residents
• Fort Valley, GA-Fort Valley Housing Authority Residents and Staff

2004
• Atlanta Jurisdiction-wide Resident Leadership Council
• Tampa, FL-Tampa Housing Authority Hope VI Residents and Staff

2006
• Toccoa, GA-Northeast Housing Authority Residents and Staff

2007
• Knoxville, TN-Empire Construction- Developed and implemented a full Section 3 training program including recruitment of public housing residents and other low-income persons living in the area.
• The Northeast Georgia Housing Authority Staff training for new Maintenance, Resident Services, and Management Teams

2009
• The Griffin Housing Authority Resident Services Staff and Resident 16-Module Training resulting in the development of a new Section 3 business Concern, Turnkey On A Dime (T.O.A.D) where four residents were employed to complete apartment turns of the authorities vacant units.
• Facilitated a half day Section 3 Compliance Training Session for the Georgia Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials at their annual conference in Savannah, GA in September.
• Conducted a six day Section 3 Resident Employment Readiness and Professional Development Class for the Florence Housing Authority, Florence, AL. The training included a full briefing on the program for staff, local governments, the local university, neighboring authorities, and contractors doing or desiring to do business with that authority.

Our commitment to Section 3 is demonstrated through our experience:

1998 Atlanta, GA - Contracted with a Resident Management Corporation to conduct public housing unit inspections for a first of its kind project.

1998 Atlanta, GA – Developed a full-time on-the-job training curriculum providing professional skills trades training to public housing residents.

2001 Atlanta, GA – Created a mandatory resident hiring protocol which offered full and part time employment with full benefits to public housing residents before advertising to the general-public.

2003 Atlanta, GA – Provided Job Readiness Training Sessions and Informational Meetings to generate interested public housing and low-income people leading to the formation of a new Section 3 business. We developed the partnership agreement, developed their budgets, trained staff on business operations, and financial management. Motivation, Inc. continued to provide FREE support to that business through 2006.

2003 Fort Valley, GA – Conducted Informational Meetings to develop interest in a Section 3 business, incorporated the Section 3 business, trained the leadership, and negotiated the first contracts.

2003 Montezuma, GA – Facilitated Section 3 Business development training program to public housing residents and prepared multiple business plans, operating budgets and pro-forma’s for residents to start their own businesses.

2004 Atlanta, GA – Created a City-wide Section 3 Business owned by the Jurisdiction-wide resident council of the City of Atlanta Housing Authority. The company consisted of 18 properties and all 9,000 Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) holders of the city of Atlanta. We trained the company leadership, negotiated, and secured their initial contract, set-up all financial accounts and trained staff on how to manage the business, prepared all company policies and procedures, incorporated the business and set up all insurances and payroll processing services.

2004 Tampa, FL – Provided Section 3 and Motivational training sessions over five months to resident affected by a Hope VI development during a series of post-dinner presentations.

2006 Toccoa, GA – Facilitated Personal and Professional Empowerment training for public housing and other low-income residents and developed a Section 3 Business (Moving Up, LLC) for that housing authority. We incorporated the business, arranged for all insurance, tax/payroll, and legal services, developed all financial projections, co-selected and trained leadership staff, negotiated and advised on their first contracts and will provide continual technical support through September 2007.

2006 Greenville, GA – Contracted with a Section 3 business from Atlanta, GA to complete renovation work on a Motivation, Inc. owned asset.

2006 Greenville, GA – Contracted with a Section 3 business from Toccoa, GA to perform renovation and pre-development work on Motivation, Inc. owned assets on multiple occasions.

2007 Atlanta, GA – Motivation, Inc. has developed a new and dynamic program partnering Section 3 residents with Department of Labor Vocational Rehabilitation clients with disabilities on a HUD involved construction project to learn and work in the construction trades. We call the program our Triangle of Success, because the training and working participants are performing the services under the umbrella of Davis Bacon wage rates which allows for real livable hourly rates.

2007 Atlanta, GA – Motivation, Inc. incorporated a new Section 3 turnkey business (Byron and Charlotte’s Turnkey Services, LLC). The owners are attendees of the Triangle of Success training program completed in June of 2007. With assistance from Motivation, Inc. in identifying and developing new business, this company was awarded its first public housing turnkey contract in August 2007.

2007 Atlanta, GA – Contracted with Moving Up, LLC to provide construction clean-out and landscaping services on a major construction project.

2007 Atlanta, GA – Contracted with Byron and Charlotte’s Turnkey Services for rough/final cleaning, fence installation, and landscaping services on a multi-million dollar project in Georgia.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve-to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.  Isaiah 61:1-3