Clean Street Team

The Clean Street Team represents a unique approach for helping homeless men and women in Atlanta. This program offers a comprehensive transitional employment and training model that helps participants achieve sustainable self-sufficiency.

How It Works

Every weekday, a miraculous thing occurs in the city of Atlanta. Men and women in cobalt blue work shirts are transported by vans to clean sidewalks, streets, and highways all over the city. These dedicated men and women work hard, in all types of weather, to maintain our city by sweeping up leaves and litter, picking up debris, and clearing brush along interstate highways. The miracle is that every single one of these hardworking men and women has had a severe history of homelessness and many have slept on the sidewalks they now clean.

As a transitional employment and training program, the Clean Street Team offers homeless men and women the opportunity to reclaim their lives by gaining hands-on work experience. In exchange for their commitment to give up drugs and alcohol and be ready to work between 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Samaritan House provides them with a host of opportunities to get on the right track:

Individual case management and employment counseling
Access to transitional housing
Hands-on work experience
Life skills and employment training classes
Assistance with gaining full-time employment (including help creating a résumé and conducting job searches, basic computer training, clothing for interviews, and MARTA cards to get to and from job interviews)
Daily morning breakfast
Use of laundry and storage facilities
A free Community Voice Mail number to enable participants to keep in contact with employers, case managers, and family
Support and assistance in gaining permanent housing

Why It Works

The Clean Street Team provides an important bridge between homelessness and full-time employment that many homeless men and women need. We offer them transitional employment that puts money in their pockets while providing a vital service to our city. The positive daily routine of the program also helps prepare participants to maintain full-time employment upon graduation. The end goal for the men and women in this program is to find permanent jobs and housing and return to their families and communities as productive members.

Hiring the Clean Street Team

The Clean Street Team is available to provide litter removal, custodial grounds maintenance, and general janitorial services for public & private entities, colleges & universities, and municipalities.

How businesses benefit with Clean Street Team:

Dependable service – Clean Street Team members are selected from a pool of motivated workers in our employment readiness program, so you can be sure they will always show up for work.
Decreased crime – Studies show that crime is less prevalent in well maintained locations.
Excellent Service – We have the track record to prove it, one hundred percent of our contracts renew.
Increased property values
Clean communities which stimulate business growth
Pride in knowing you are making a positive impact on your community
Pride in knowing you are helping to transform lives

Recent Clean Street Team Contracts Secured:

Atlanta Housing Authority
MARTA
Keep East Point Beautiful
ING Georgia Marathon
Central Parking System
Housing Authority of Fulton County

For more information about hiring The Clean Street Team, please contact our Business Development Manager:

Michelle Kleinhans

Business Development Manager

Samaritan House Clean Street Team

MKleinhans@samhouse.org

Mailing address: P.O. Box 89125

Physical address: 302 Decatur Street

Atlanta, GA 30312

P: 404-572-9000 ext. 306

F: 404-572-9001