Offers Suffolk county residents, ages 18-24, educational support to obtain their TASC diploma and learn job skills. Provides vocational training in a variety of fields including the building trades (weatherization, green construction), medical billing and coding, hospitality, home health aide, early child care and manufacturing. Offers job interview skills workshops, resume writing, job placement and continued career counseling for program graduates. Offers a stipend for good performance to participants.

Serves people who have been displaced from their careers as unpaid homemakers. It offers services to help with the challenges people in these situations often face. Some people have trouble finding: Child care; Transportation; Housing; Basic necessities; Jobs; Others may face: Emotional challenges; Medical needs and Legal problems. Services include: Crisis intervention; Counseling; Referral to community service agencies; Assertiveness training; Decision-making training; Assessment; Resume writing; Job search strategies and Job clubs. The final goal is for people to become employed and economically independent. If you or someone you know can benefit from this program, visit or call the center nearest you.

Provides career guidance, evaluation, preparation and multiple employment services to people with disabilities or those that are economically disadvantaged, through supported employment, industrial work centers, school-to-work career development, and janitorial training.

Provides opportunities for regional businesses and government agencies, along with developing jobs for those with developmental disabilities. Services and training range from custodial, food service, retail, clerical support, manufacturing, assembly, packaging and distribution.

Provides sheltered workshops offering on-site factory like setting, food service program and clerical training for adults with developmental disabilities. Also available are supportive and competitive work programs.

Provides outreach and admissions counseling to help youth (ages 16-24) enroll in a federal JOB CORPS program where they will receive assistance in completing their education and obtain training in various trades, on a residential campus-type setting. Call for more information.

Provides sheltered workshops offering on-site factory like setting, food service program and clerical training for adults with developmental disabilities. Also available are supportive and competitive work programs.

This program provides adults with developmental disabilities the training and skills to gain employment in the community. Services begin with an assessment of skills and abilities and includes pre-vocational preparation, job training, transition from school to work, job coaching, supported employment, counseling services and more.

This is an exciting and challenging program designed to build community and strengthen peer leadership skills in teens. Activities are crafted for success and achievement, require full participation and promote improved decision making, problem solving, and communication skills. The program's goal is to work with young people who are struggling to overcome difficult situations, and guide them toward higher education and purposeful employment. Participants attend one of the three, 3-week summer sessions and then attend weekend activities at camp during the school year. Teen's families also participate in the program, during weekends in the spring and fall. Activities include camping, canoeing, high ropes, peer group counseling, learning basic work skills, and local community service projects.

Offers programs and services to help criminal justice-involved individuals prepare to enter and re-enter today’s workforce. Through the Employment Center programs and services, such as Job Search & Placement Assistance, Employment Counseling, and eligibility-based Training & Educational Opportunities are provided, Fresh Start is specifically designed to identify barriers faced by the ex-offender and offers guidance, techniques and proven strategies to create a path back into the workforce and successful career advancement. Call for more detailed information.

** During the COVID pandemic, the EOC switchboard is staffed part time from 7:30am - 1pm Monday - Friday with no voicemail option. If you are unable to reach a staff member, please call back during the hours indicated. ** Offers job readiness skills, job search skills, interview techniques, computer training, career counseling, resume writing skills, business etiquette and public speaking skills.

* Offers a work preparation program for individuals who have struggled to find work due to previous or current incarceration, substance use disorders or chronic unemployment. * Provides a 90 day training. Trainees learn and practice basic work expectations, woodworking, welding in a live production environment. * Conducts a job search with a Placement Advisor. * Offers stabilization services to individuals who are currently incarcerated to begin work training upon release.

Offers panhandlers and unemployed homeless individuals in Onondaga County work experience through day labor and connections to needed support services.

Pickup Schedule:

Monday:
8 AM: Downtown Hub
8:15 AM: Across from Dunk and Bright in mattress store parking lot
8:30 AM: Price Rite parking lot (Erie & Teall)

Wednesday:
Work crews are developed in collaboration with Catholic Charities Men's Shelter, Rescue Mission, and Salvation Army.

Friday:
8 AM: Clinton Square (Water St. side)
8:15 AM: Regional Mark (M&T parking lot)
8:20 AM: Destiny Mall, remote parking at Solar St. (Silver 17 light pole)
8:30 AM: Mattydale, Northern Lights Plaza (near Salt City Dogs)

A comprehensive pre and post release reentry program provided by Peaceprints in collaboration with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. Pre-Release Services include: - Intensive Case Management - Specialty Housing inside the "Project Blue Pod" - Ready, Set, Work! Employment Workshop - Court Advocacy - Empower You Speaker Series - Optional Fatherhood Program - Optional Restorative Circles Post-Release Services Include: - Intensive Case Management - Mentoring & Retention Services - Court Advocacy - Housing Coordination - Entitlement & Benefits Assistance - Connection to Treatment Providers & Medical - Educational & Workforce Linkages ##REENTRY##

Career Coaches work with customers to create a pathway to success. Provides cost-free services to customers and businesses, including career coaching, linkages and job referrals to hiring employers, a well-equipped Resource Room and computer lab with high speed Internet access, individual and comprehensive assessments, career exploration, employment and job readiness workshops, resume preparation, job search planning, job interview preparation, Thursday networking job clubs, Individual Training Account (ITA) tuition grants for eligible customers, referrals to partner agencies, Adult Training Programs, Dislocated Worker Programs, and Trade Act Programs. Daycare and other support services may be available for qualifying individuals while they are in WIOA approved training.

Helps people with varying needs and abilities train, prepare for, secure, and maintain employment.

Provides two year college degree program, non-credit continuing education, telecourses and online courses, career advancement and personal enrichment courses, pre-employment training and displaced homemaker development, workforce development, career planning and counseling, community services and adult basic skills, high school equivalency instruction, and satellite courses. Financial Aid available.

Supports an array of services to assist Temporary Assistance and Food Stamp applicants and recipients in securing and retaining employment and achieving self sufficiency.
Provides Summer Youth Employment Services

Provides case management and job placement/training services to participants impacted by the criminal justice system. Assistance includes job readiness, civic restoration support, and access to professional clothing.

* Provides vocational and career services that includes: Resume Development Job search activities Interview skills Job coaching

Job Corps is a free education and job training program of the U.S. Department of Labor. It is a helping hand for youth who need it. It can help earn your GED, find a career that interests you, get the training you need, have a safe place to live and your basic needs met while completing the program. With 74 different careers to choose from, Job Corps helps you earn enough to become self-sufficient. To qualify, individuals must meet certain Job Corps requirements

Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

Provides opportunities for individuals with mental health diagnoses to participate in various work units and educational areas.

Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.