Hiring with HOPES: Employer Lunch + Learn

Hiring with HOPES: A Journey to Opportunity

Employer Lunch + Learn at Project Return

Wednesday, February 25
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Project Return Office
109 Lafayette Street
Nashville, TN 37210

🎟️ Free to attend 

Join us for Hiring with HOPES: A Journey to Opportunity, an employer-focused Lunch + Learn that will officially introduce and launch the HOPES program, a new initiative designed to support second chance hiring through training, partnership, and employer engagement.

This session will highlight how Project Return and its partners prepare individuals returning from incarceration for employment and how employers can play a meaningful role in creating pathways to opportunity through intentional hiring, onboarding, and support.

Together, we’ll explore what it looks like to walk the road to opportunity as a community and how businesses can help create places of belonging and stability through work.

Introducing HOPES

This Lunch + Learn will serve as the public launch of HOPES, a program focused on:

• Skills development and career readiness

• Employer engagement and education

• Connecting trained participants to real employment opportunities

• Supporting long-term success through partnership and belonging

Attendees will be among the first to learn how HOPES works and how employers can get involved from the very beginning.

What You’ll Learn

• Who Project Return serves and how individuals prepare for employment

• How the HOPES program supports training, readiness, and job placement

• Tools and resources available to employers interested in second chance hiring

• What it means to join the Employer Network of HOPES

Lunch Provided

A casual, grazing-style lunch will be provided to encourage conversation and connection throughout the session.

The road to opportunity is better when we walk it together.

We hope you’ll join us for the launch of HOPES!