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Addresses job and employability skills for the unemployed and underemployed.

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.

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

Assist individuals with stabilizing their barriers to success and with developing skills that prepare them for employment. Program offers successful employment and personal skills development opportunities to help individuals improve their ability to "earn, keep, and grow" a steady family-supporting income. Customers are provided with case management and referred to other services such as skill and behavior assessment, support groups, life skills, GED instruction, counseling, substance abuse treatment, and others.

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.

Provides a resource navigation program with referrals to resources and support, systems navigation such as job training, employment assistance, health care, and behavioral health support.

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 a program designed to re-integrate veterans to college through three-phases. Phase I: Participants will complete a ten-week paid research experience, complete a team project, learn 21st century skills in workshops, and prepare to begin classes at a local college. Phase II: Participants will continue to refine their academic interests and apply for a formal program at the University of Pittsburgh or an institution of their choice. Phase III: Participants will enroll in a university and prepare to graduate from the ELeVATE program.

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.

Prepares participants for entry-level employment in manufacturing careers, seamless entry into the Industrial Maintenance Mechanic Registered Apprenticeship Program, or continued education. Covers hydraulics, industrial electricity, mechanical components, and programmable logic controls. Offers career counseling, resume development, interview preparation, and job finding help. Readies graduates for PMMI Mechatronics Level 1 and ACT National Career Readiness certification exams.

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.

Provides individuals with limited English-language and employment skills as well as those lacking educational credentials receive literacy education, English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction, civics and citizenship classes, access to and support in the use of technology, support in transitioning to postsecondary education or employment, life skills, and counseling and case management.

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 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 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.

Offers after-School Tutoring, Internship, Counseling, and Mentoring Program for Youth provides students from the Logan/Olney neighborhood schools, with academic enrichment, job training, employment mentoring, and leadership training.

Offers a 14-week pre-apprenticeship program. Includes courses in work safety, electric and gas basics, technical maintenance, and other skills. Provides mentorship and opportunities to shadow and assist PECO employees on the job. Prepares participants for the construction and skilled trades exam and CDL certification. Prepares graduates for a range of careers such as aerial line mechanic, underground mechanic, distribution gas mechanic, transmission and substations testing mechanic, and others. Pre-apprentice Helpers are paid approximately $21 per hour.

Offers industry internships to students in participating school districts. Intership offerings include: Dental Internship: The dental internship program has been modeled after NTIEC's long-standing hospital internship program, whereas students will participate for three hours a day, once a week for approximately five-seven weeks during the fall and spring semesters. This unique opportunity will provide students with an up front and close look at the various jobs available in dentistry. They will observe and shadow dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, lab technicians and the office staff. Intership designed for 10th to 12th grades. Hospital Internship: Students visit area hospitals for two to three hours once a week for six-seven weeks during the fall or spring semester. Students focus on one key department during each visit and participate in a department tour, meet the staff, learn about the work and discuss educational requirements for success in the particular staff specialty. Intership d

Offers carpentry skills training to youth ages 12 to 17. Instructor is a professional, union carpenter.

Provides employment training to people aged 21 to 50+ who are diagnosed with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.

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 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.

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.

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.

Encourages and supports individuals to develop appropriate work habits, attitudes, and skills in a structured and supervised setting. While performing contract work, individuals learn task completion, safety in the workplace, problem solving, following directions, and dependability. Individuals earn a commensurate wage for their work and receive a paycheck every two weeks. There are also opportunities to participate in career classes geared toward readying individuals to move on to competitive employment in the community.