There is a company called Reemploy in the United Kingdom that was started in 2007 to provide similar services as Opportunity Works provides today.

FORBES: Keeping My Eye On The Ball

Innovative entrepreneurship and wage insurance programs: States will also be empowered to implement wage insurance to help reemploy older workers and programs that make it easier for unemployed workers to start their own businesses.

FORBES: Bringing Overseas Corporate Profits Back To US Not Necessarily A Job Booster

Wales' record as a site of heavy industry was hit when the Cardiff firm Allied Steel and Wire shut with the lost of more 700 jobs, although it is hoped the Spanish steelmaker Celsa will step in and buy out the plant and perhaps reemploy many of the workers.

BBC: Factory announces 190 job losses