Employment & Workforce Development

Employment and Workforce Development Center
Job Readiness Training
Job Placement Program

Employment and Workforce Development Center

To provide services to job seekers and businesses on the north/northwest side of Chicago, the Albany Park Community Center has established an Employment and Workforce Development Center (or EWD). This center is a local partner site within Chicago's One-Stop Career Center System. For more information, point your browser to:
http://www.cityofchicago.org/WorkforceDevelopment/OneStops/OneStops.html .

The EWD Center provides Core and Intensive Services to job seekers and businesses under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). This project addresses the Albany Park Community Center's longstanding mission statement "to promote high and steady levels of employment."

Core services for job seekers
are available on a walk-in or call-in basis in our Resource Room. These services include: outreach and recruitment; orientation to the One-Stop System; intake and registry of WIA customers; information on position openings, unemployment assistance, career and training information, financial aid, and supportive services; and eligibility determination for other services.

Core services for businesses include: orientation to the One-Stop System; position opening registry; opportunities for recruiting qualified employee candidates; information about the labor market, retention strategies, supportive services for employees, unemployment compensation, targeted Work Incentive and other programs.

More intensive, individualized services for job seekers and businesses are also available to meet special needs to develop the workforce system in Chicago.

(Funded with a WIA grant administered by the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development (MOWD) and in-kind collaborations within the Albany Park Community Center's programs.)
Funding source web site: http://www.cityofchicago.org/WorkforceDevelopment/

Other Employment and Workforce Development Services:

Job Readiness Classes are taught for adults who want to prepare themselves for employment success can study in this class, offered several times a year. Find out your career interests, and learn the skills and strategies to get and keep the job you want. (Funded by an Adult Education and Family Literacy grant from the Illinois State Board of Education)
funding source

Job Placement -- Adult residents of Chicago who are looking for a job can receive individual assistance at the community centers 5121 N. Kimball facility. Employers looking for qualified applicants are encouraged to list their openings with our free service. (An Innovative Program for Underserved Populations, supported with CDBG funds from the Mayor's Office for Workforce Development)
funding source

Albany Park Community Center
3403 West Lawrence Ave., Ste. 300 Chicago IL, 60625
Phone: (773) 583-5111
Fax: (773) 345-0512

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