Workforce Services

The Workforce Services department provides pre-employment services that empower participants to enter or re-enter the labor market. Workshops, support groups and networking, one-to-one personal or vocational counseling, training, job-seeking and job-keeping methods, leadership development, decision-making skills development, and assistance with developing an action plan are among the resources used to help participants build confidence, identify skills and seek training or employment.

Workforce Service's Displaced Homemaker Program offers free assistance to anyone who has recently lost his or her primary source of income due to job lay-offs, divorce, death, or disability. Through the Displaced Homemaker program, Workforce Services assists both men and women to evaluate their current employment needs, then offers workshops to sharpen job seeking skills as well as helping with job referrals and placements.

Workforce Services WIOA, Workforce Innovation, and Opportunity Act, offers low-income, at-risk youth, ages 14-24, educational planning and credentialing assistance, work readiness, leadership development, and life skills support programming to achieve long-term outcomes such as completion of academic certificates and placement in employment, and/or training post-secondary education. Participating youth may include the homeless, individuals currently in or previously involved in the former foster care system, the disabled, those who are deemed basic skills deficient through standardized testing (CASAS), and/or who may have had histories of substance abuse, are pregnant or parenting youth, may have had involvement in the juvenile justice system or have been charged for crimes as an adult.