Community Assistance Network
"Helping people. Changing lives."
CAN
Workforce Development
The relationship between healthy families and job stability in single parent households is crucial; periodic breaks in employment threaten future employability. Through
Workforce Development, working parents seek to reverse the “job-hopping” cycle, to develop new skill sets and to develop the perseverance required to attain their goals.
A Better Future Through "Soft Skills"
Workforce Development
Job counseling in the Workforce Development program comes in the form of helping clients to recognize strong and weak areas in their "skill sets"; to identify possible avenues of specialization, skill enhancement, and immediate as well as long range
career tracks. The guiding philosophy behind this program is that each participant is responsible for his or her self-sufficiency. Our employment counselors present clients with positive first steps.
The Workforce Development program's approach is to enable individuals
to have better access to resources needed to obtain and enhance
employment opportunities, eliminating many of the social and financial
barriers that low income individuals are challenged with.
Participants will be exposed to opportunities that will build skill-sets
and enhance future career options. Successful participants may chose
career development programs that lead to certification as a Medical
Assistant, Pharmacy Technician, CDL Class A and B, Early Childhood Child
Care, Culinary Arts, HVAC and Refrigeration, Weatherization and
other programs.
Monica Wimberly (Certified Workforce Development Program Specialist) and
Carlton Hamilton (Employment Specialist) have helped hundreds of people secure gainful
careers.
Click here for the Jobs Opportunities Task Force. . . advocating better skills, jobs, and income in the Baltimore Region.
