Streets Team Enterprises
Supported Employment Program
The mission of Streets Team Enterprise (STE) is to help individuals attain permanent employment by providing training and a transitional paying job. Participation in STE is temporary by design because the end goal is for participants to use STE as a stepping stone to self-sufficiency by eventually securing lasting employment in the workforce at large.
Crucially, all participants in STE projects benefit from the supportive wraparound services that DST offers Team Members in the Streets Team Volunteers Program. Entering or reentering the workforce can be a challenge for our clients—many of whom have been out of the workforce for years at a time as part of their experience of homelessness or incarceration. With a DST safety net and a supportive community of peers, members of STE are free to fail knowing that sometimes success only arrives after a second, third, or fourth attempt.
Membership in STE is open to graduates of DST’s Streets Team Volunteers Program as well as to formerly incarcerated individuals. The type of workforce preparation undertaken by members of Streets Team Enterprises varies from community to community depending on the availability of community partners who collaborate with STE in job preparation and placement.
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Current STE Initiatives
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The B2W program, funded by CalTrans and administered by the Butte County Office of Education, sponsors highway cleanup jobs in San Jose, Fairfield, Napa, and Santa Rosa.
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In partnership with SolTrans, the public transportation provider of Solano County, STE Facility Technicians work to keep transit stops clean, functional, and clear of graffiti. Facility Technicians also perform unhoused outreach in project areas.
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Safety Ambassadors are paid to perform night watches in assigned lots and properties. In addition, they build compassionate and supportive rapport in the communities they work in.
Meet STE’s Executive Director, Gregory Nottage
Gregory Nottage, Executive Director of STE
Gregory joined Streets Team Enterprises in December 2021, bringing with him more than 12 years of experience working with individuals that have suffered systemic and institutionalized trauma.
While incarcerated, Gregory worked in Solano State Prison and CMC-West in the Offender Mentor Certification Program (OMCP) creating and facilitating Substance Abuse and Self-Help programs that served over 2,000 inmates. In 2000, Gregory co-founded The Ironwood Project, which affords inmates in California prisons the opportunity to earn their Associate Degrees while incarcerated.
Upon his release in June 2014, Gregory served as Intake Coordinator for Options Recovery Services in Berkeley. He then joined Community Housing Partnership in May 2017, and in 18 months was promoted to Senior Programs Director which oversaw a team of 56 direct service providers working within 11 Permanent Supportive Housing buildings in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. This portfolio directly supported over 1,000 formerly homeless men, women, children and families.
Gregory has been a guest lecturer at both San Francisco State University and San Jose State University. He facilitates trainings on mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse for the Cadets Cohorts at the San Mateo Police Academy. Gregory has provided trainings for The National Science Foundation, The Exploratorium, and The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Gregory is featured in Learn Lead Lift: How to Think, Act, and Inspire Your Way to Greatness, a book on leadership by Wendy Ryan.
Gregory holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from San Francisco State University (2017), and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University (2020.)