Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services in job training programs.
Job training can provide an entry into family-sustaining jobs and careers. Many women in job training programs, however, face obstacles to success. Wraparound services—such as child care assistance, access to public benefits, and transportation or housing assistance—can help adults, particularly those with caregiving responsibilities, to complete programs that will ultimately improve their economic standing.
September 22, 2016
Cleveland.com: Nonprofit opens preschool in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood: Cleveland Connects: The First 2,000 Days
The nonprofit Centers for Families and Children has opened an early learning center in Cleveland’s impoverished Glenville neighborhood to serve 40 preschoolers for free.
[…] The Centers for Families and Children is a nonprofit that offers low-income families job training, mental healthcare, rent assistance and childcare. Centers also operates the Wade Early Learning Center on Yale Avenue in Glenville.
News Channel 3: One group is empowering and uplifting the community one bag of tea at a time
“My Cup of Tea” is a new business that only hires women in the neighborhood. The Women’s Resource Center or the “house” at the corner of Semmes and Carnes is a place where women in Orange Mound can connect to improve the quality of their lives.
[…] Now through their “Work for Life” and “Tea Life” programs, women can learn valuable work skills and possibly land a job in their community. What we’re doing is training women to specialize in the packing and the labeling and the distributing of imported tea.”
September 21, 2016
Herald Democrat: Workforce Solutions celebrates 20 years in the community
Among the programs offered through Workforce Solutions are job skills training through local colleges and childcare assistance programs for working parents, Bates said. In the past year, Workforce Solutions assisted in providing nearly $3 million in subsidized childcare services.
“Our main goal is to remove barriers that keep people from going to work,” Bates said, citing transportation and childcare as the biggest barriers. Workforce Solutions is among the 28 workforce development boards that were created by in the mid-90s by the Texas legislature.
September 20, 2016
The Kansas City Star: Dog grooming program gave homeless woman a job – and a new life
Using a training course called “The Grooming Project,” EPEC [Empowering the Parent to Empower the Child] helps women claim a path out of poverty. Students train Monday through Thursday, mostly working with two instructors on pets brought in by customers for a $12 wash and clip.
[…] If the women could become certified pet stylists, improve their employment status, make a living wage and learn to manage their lives socially, emotionally and financially, EPEC would succeed. “It’s not just job training like at a vocational college,” Kirsch said. “You still need to have all of those wrap-around services.”
[…] Besides teaching dog grooming skills, life skills are also taught and has partner with other organizations to provide housing assistance, child care and job placement support.
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