Provides an intense job readiness program for qualified adults to gain employment in the clean energy sector.

Provides job readiness training, career exploration, and employment opportunities for youth living in Erie County. Students are placed at a summer employment location for approximately 6 week from mid-June to mid-August. Youth are encouraged to register and turn in all required documentation early.

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 young adults ages 17 to 24 who have disadvantages to employment with the chance to earn their GEDs, receive on-the-job training, and earn a wage while doing it.

Offers an 8-month medical assistant training program that begins in March 2024 and provides free tuition and materials valued at $7,000 to qualified participants.

Offers work experience in document destruction and recycling.

Provides youth and young adults ages 14 to 26 who are impacted by or perpetrators of gun violence with an opportunity to receive paid employment training, skills, and mentorship. Services includes paid job training with local businesses for 3 to 6 months, wraparound support services, job coaching, and monthly community events driven by youth to foster community cohesion.

Programs that identify public or private sector employers that are willing to take on trainees who learn to perform the tasks that are associated with their position at the work site using the actual tools, equipment, documents and materials that they will use when fully trained. OJT trainees work under the supervision of skilled employees who serve as instructors following a training plan established by the employee, the employer and an external agency, if matching wages are being paid by that agency; and are engaged in productive work and earn a wage as they are trained. Employers may be offered cash training reimbursements (subsidized wages) or other incentives to hire difficult-to-employ individuals and are generally expected to hire the trainees upon successful completion of the training.

Provides eligible individuals with career counseling, pre-vocational preparation, basic skills improvement, on-the-job training, occupational skills training and job search assistance.

Prepares participants for entry-level employment in the advanced manufacturing industry. Teaches skills including reading comprehension, mathematics, critical thinking, troubleshooting, problem solving, interpersonal skills, resume preparation, and using job search tools. Learning opportunities include meeting employer partners, guest speakers, and visiting factory and shop locations of potential employers.

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 a 24-week, earn-and-learn, pre-apprenticeship program in digital marketing for high school juniors and seniors. Pays a stipend of $12 per hour. Provides training in digital marketing skills featuring hands-on, creative learning; access to educational, career, and socioemotional counseling; one-on-one mentoring; a pathway to an industry-standard credential; and job or apprenticeship placement assistance or post-secondary program enrollment assistance for graduates of the program.

Offers an employment readiness, job coaching, and technical training program twice per year. Training includes technical skills such as design, small hand tools proficiency, and entry level machinist training. Participants also have the opportunity to improve their soft skills through mock interviews and help with building resumes.

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.

Provides services that help adults with disabilities find and keep the right job, as well as train companies to find, train and supervise people with disabilities.

Provides a workforce development program for adults experiencing a variety of barriers to employment while providing cost effective outsourced labor solutions to customers, including packaging, assembly, kitting, shrink-wrapping, and mailing.

Offers a six-month workforce development program that focuses on neighborhood beautification work. Operates on a full-time schedule (37.5 hours per week) with one day per week of classroom training in soft skills training and the remaining four days assisting with neighborhood beautification tasks throughout the city. Participants will have the opportunity to be hired in a full time civil service capacity at the completion of the workforce development program. Rate of pay $17 per hour.

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.

Most individuals who come to Handi-Crafters have had little or no work experience. Here they are given the opportunity to learn and acquire good work skills through on-the-job training as they compensate and adapt around their disability. Over 300 people are employed in our workshops. They perform production service work for businesses. Our workshops can provide you with a range of work experiences. We complete jobs which involve packaging, assembling, heat sealing, collating, and non-industrial assembly. Opportunities are also available for qualified individuals to operate a variety of industrial machinery. Basic safety instruction is an integral part of our work program. Most of our jobs are paid at piece rate. Some of the more specialized work is paid by the hour. Paychecks are issued every other Friday. Our goal is to provide a safe and secure work environment that allows each individual to develop a worker profile to acquire the skills necessary for success in the competitive job market. Some indiv

Provides paid training opportunities while seeking employment.

Provides educational and occupational learning programs and services for youth. Programs and activities include summer and after-school programs, job readiness training, and life skills workshops.

Provides youth with employment skills through job shadowing at local businesses, companies, and agencies. Participants earn stipends while developing on-the-job skills; applying academic skills in a work environment; and strengthening decision making and problem solving skills.

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.

Offers a workforce development program that provides participants with paid on-the-job training, customized industry standard Salesforce curriculum, and soft-skills training to prepare trainees for 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.