Forty-five evacuees were offered work at a job fair Thursday, Gov. Janet Napolitano said. At least two of them will begin working Monday.
Employers who have jobs available now can register with the state at azkatrinajobs.com. The job fair continued Friday.
Children also started going to school on Thursday, she said.
"Several of them are inside doing their homework," Napolitano said.
Some evacuees moved out of the temporary shelter at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Thursday, and Napolitano said she expects many more to leave today. She estimated Thursday evening that 400 to 460 people were staying there.
Some have moved into apartments, others into rental homes and others into donated properties. Parents with children first chose which schools they wanted their children to attend, and then authorities tried to find them housing in the district.
The state is on standby from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to receive more evacuees, but none is scheduled to arrive in coming days.
The Motor Vehicle Division set up booths at the shelters in Phoenix and Tucson to issue temporary Arizona identification cards to the evacuees, who started receiving assistance checks Thursday.
Bank One and the Bank of America agreed to cash the checks and establish bank accounts for them.
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