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Supports re-entering citizens upon release from Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Offers paid training in horticulture, landscape maintenance, greenhouse operations, carpentry, and masonry. Training includes job readiness, conflict resolution, health education, and occupational therapy. Also offers social support services. Program graduates receive continued case management support and job placement with partnering employers.

Provides a work activities center where individuals are trained by skilled professionals on a continual basis to comfortably handle a wide variety of contracts, and to cost-effectively provide business customers with a quality job that is delivered on time and on budget.

Offers services to youth that face a significant barrier to completing or advancing in education or obtaining employment. Programs offered include case management, academic tutoring and study skills training, job and workplace readiness workshops, occupational skills training, paid and unpaid work experiences, GED preparation classes, job shadowing, career fairs, leadership development, mock interviewing and resume help, and entrepreneurial skills training.

Certified Nurse Assistant Program-Inquire about our 10-week course that teaches medical terminology, math, classroom and skills training as well as clinical experience. Class is available only in West Chester. County OIC is a Certiport authorized testing center for Microsoft Office 2003 Specialist Certification exams. Certification is available in Word, OutlookR, Excel, and PowerPointR. Expert level certifications are offered for Word and Excel. Exams are available for Microsoft Office XP and Office 2003. Please call the West Chester office at 610-692-2344 for test availability and fees. To register for any of these programs, call 610-692-2344.

Provides a five-module program designed to equip teens and young adults with essential life skills for greater independence. Tailored to meet real-life needs, each module focuses on practical areas: banking, cooking, household management, job readiness, and core life skills.

Provides career, occupation, and job training through Clinical Internships and Clinical Day Programs.

Offers an array of employment support services including vocational evaluation and assessment; job shadowing and work-based learning experiences; placement and follow-on support, as well as customized training programs.

Provides English language instruction, academic support and enrichment, literacy instruction, project-based learning, and exposure to arts and culture. Also offers academic support, physical activity, and cross-cultural experiences.

Offers Registered Pre-Apprenticeship Machinist program of up to 600 hours of precision manufacturing skills training, third-party industry-recognized credentials, and job placement assistance with access to hundreds of companies located in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Offers educational, social, cultural, and recreational services; drug and alcohol prevention, youth development; job training, and other programs to meet needs of multi-generational participants.

Operates an eight-month Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) program that provides young adults with career development, job training work experiences, and career-connected building trades training that aligns with partnering registered apprenticeship programs.

Offers life-skills training and job readiness training to help people become self sufficient and find quality employment. Also offers CDL classes.

Provides a “boot camp training” for those striving to succeed in a career. Multiple weeks of intense soft-skill training before students transition into employment with one of our partner organizations. The program helps reduce recruitment costs and turnover expenses incurred by organizations who hire via other traditional methods.

Offers internships to graduate students in Psychology or Social Work programs. A graduate intern will receive extensive training on sexual assault, treatment issues, working with children, working with adults, and responding to crisis situations. This training occurs in September and is required.

Offers apprenticeships, training through business practice firms, classroom training, internships, on-the-job training, and work experience opportunities that prepare people for specific types of employment.

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. Offers other services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Assigns a case manager or counselor to each client.

The Wyoming County Family Resource Center Educator's Lab provides Early Childhood Educators and Parents with equipment to create materials they can use with their children. A variety of die cuts and a die cut machine, laminator, and a binding machine are available for use. Educational resources and videos can now be found on the HANDS webpage.

Offers an electrician training program in three, hybrid (Zoom and in-person), 10-week courses. Courses take place one night per week and addresses electrical safety, theory, tools, circuits, equipment, materials/wiring, and calculations. Six weeks per course offer optional in-person, hands-on performance tasks at real time service calls where students apply learning and do the work. Training is appropriate for beginning careers in residential, commercial, industrial, and lineman jobs.

Provides services and support to learn skills needed to work at the job of choice in the community. Services include job finding, job coaching, supportive employment, community based work assessments, discovery profiles, customized employment, career assessments, and on-the-job training.

Recruits, trains, and places participants in resource-limited organizations in their communities called host sites. Participants provide health education and access services to community members while receiving learning opportunities and workforce development in public health roles of community health worker, digital health navigator, and/or medical interpreter. Participants receive $15/hour stipend and $6,495 education award.

Offers earn-while-you-learn Apprentice Training for the Electrical Industry (ATEI), that combines on-the-job training (OTJ) and classroom training. Assigns new apprentices to a signatory employer and earn a paycheck while attending weekly related instruction and learning on-the job.

Offers an apprenticeship program in the construction crafts and building trades. Includes formal classroom instruction and paid on-the-job training. Requires a minimum of 300 hours of classroom training and 4000 hours of on-the-job training to be completed to graduate from progam. Apprenticeships typically are 2.5 years in length.

Trains underserved Philadelphians for clean energy jobs with national credentials and room for advancement. Operates five hands-on training labs in energy auditing, commercial and residential HVAC, heat pumps, gas line mechanic, and green construction and renovation. Offers career development and job placement services.

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. Offers other services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Assigns a case manager or counselor to each client.

Provides paid, $13 per hour weekly Lifeguard Skill Building lessons. The swimming training will be taught by Parks & Recreation, Red Cross Certified Water Safety Instructors with support from Fab Youth Philly staff to pass the Lifeguard Certification Program.