Unsure how to help members with employment needs? (36186) Explains how LDS Employment Resource Services can help priesthood leaders serve members with employment challenges.

Career Workshop Materials The Career Workshop teaches proven job skills that will help members make good first impressions and be more competitive. It is designed to assist people from all backgrounds and skill levels to find work, enroll in school, or improve a small business.

Career Tool Pass along card is used to invite members to participate in The Career Workshop.

Deseret Industries: More Than a Thrift Store (35533), explains how donations to Deseret Industries are used. Introduced 1998.

One for the Money (33293), simple strategies and tools for budgeting, reducing debt, and saving for a happier, more fulfilling life. Introduced 1992 and revised in 2006, 12 pages.

Providing in the Lord's Way (32296), official Church welfare handbook setting forth principles, responsibilities, and organization. Introduced 1990, available in 16 languages, 27 pages. (English not available.)

Providing in the Lord's Way: A Leader's Guide to Welfare October 1990, 18 pages. Not available from Church Distribution.

Pure Religion (35510), overview of Church welfare and humanitarian service with emphasis on how the reader can become involved. Introduced 2001, 21 pages, four colors.

Relief Society (35703), Section 3 of Book 2, Church Handbook of Instructions, outlines purpose, objectives, organization, and activities of Relief Society. 19 pages.

Responding to Abuse (32248), helps for ecclesiastical leaders who encounter situations of abuse, with instructions for reporting. Introduced 1995, six pages.

Spiritual and Temporal Welfare (35708), Section 8 of Book 2, Church Handbook of Instructions, emphasizing the roles of Church leaders and councils in helping to foster self-reliance and caring for the needy. Introduced 1998, seven pages.

Understanding and Helping Those Who Have Homosexual Problems (32250), suggestions for leaders who are trying to help members who have homosexual thoughts and feelings to avoid or overcome homosexual behaviors and establish appropriate relationships. Introduced 1992, six pages.

Posters
These promotional posters are to help Church leaders and employment specialists promote employment education and self-employment assistance including The Career Workshop and The Professional Placement Program.
Career Tools
Grow Your Own Business
Find the Right Job
Unemployed Professional

Forms

Career Assessment and Plan (31485) a form used by Church Leaders and employment specialists to assess candidates needs regarding employment, education opportunities, or self-employment and track their progress.

Needs and Resources Analysis: Self-Reliance Plan (32290), a form used by bishops, Relief Society presidents and welfare specialists to help families plan for and become self-reliant.

Needs and Resources Analysis Supplement (32291). This form should be used by Church leaders when the amount of assistance involved exceeds $2500 and should be completed to:

1. Analyze individual and family needs.
2. Identify individual and family needs.
3. Identify additional needed resources and how such will be provided.
4. Make work assignments so that the recipient of Church assistance may work to the extent of his or her ability for commodities, services, or funds received.