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Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include:
- Benefits planning
- Career planning
- Follow-up support services
- Job coaching
- Job development services
- Job follow-up services
- Job placement
- Job-seeking skills training
- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support
- PASS and IRWE planning
- Person-centered planning
- Resume and cover letter development
- Supported employment
- Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.
Real-time resume and interview online coaching/career advice resource, including: - Expert resume assistance, feedback, templates, and tips - Live interview coaching plus tips and resources - Resources for job searching and career tips
Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include:
- Benefits planning
- Career planning
- Follow-up support services
- Job coaching
- Job development services
- Job follow-up services
- Job placement
- Job-seeking skills training
- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support
- PASS and IRWE planning
- Person-centered planning
- Resume and cover letter development
- Supported employment
- Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.
Helps secondary students with disabilities prepare for life after graduation. Provides an opportunity for youth to explore career and training options, gain work skills, and learn how to be successful after high school. Specific offerings include job, career, and postsecondary exploration assistance; work-readiness training; and instruction on the topic of self-advocacy.
NOTE: To locate Pre-Employment Transition Services, click on the link to find a location https://odcmn.org/locations/
Provides job and small business resources at most branches, including free classes on resume writing, job searching, networking, and interviewing.
- Mobile workPLACE: Offers computer access and job skills training in multiple languages throughout the community.
In addition, the Rondo Community Outreach Library hosts a Small Business Resource Center with materials and assistance for starting or growing a business.
Career Pathways: Provides youth ages 14 – 24 who have faced systemic barriers to employment the opportunity to be introduced into the workforce by getting an internship at the YMCA. Beacons: Provides after-school and summer care for young people in grades K – 12 by partnering with Twin Cities area schools to provide quality educational, recreational, and leadership development activities and eliminate barriers to participation. Center for Youth Voice: Provides programs and services that help young people understand our system of government and how to effectively use their voice to take action on issues that matter to them. Teen Tech Center: Provides a technology-driven, interactive space for young people ages 12 – 24 to drop in, be creative, and develop new skills for free. Does not require a YMCA membership. Must be a member of the Teen Tech Center.
Resources are provided through a website offering: - Expert resume assistance, feedback, templates, and tips - Live interview coaching plus tips and resources - Resources for job searching and career tips
This program is geared towards youth at risk of not finishing school. The main focuses are to assist with completing high school, move on to post-secondary, and/or transition to work. It offers a summer job for 8 weeks with a paycheck and entry-level training in a variety of occupations. They offer counselors that can help mentor young students, identify problems, and encourage personal goals.
Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include:
- Benefits planning
- Career planning
- Follow-up support services
- Job coaching
- Job development services
- Job follow-up services
- Job placement
- Job-seeking skills training
- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support
- PASS and IRWE planning
- Person-centered planning
- Resume and cover letter development
- Supported employment
- Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.
Short-term, community-based services designed to help students with disabilities and/or having a gap in services and needing additional support to identify career interests.
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Resources are provided through a website offering: - Expert resume assistance, feedback, templates, and tips - Live interview coaching plus tips and resources - Resources for job searching and career tips
- Employment acquisition including job information, job banks, job fairs, job line and job search and placement - Employment preparation including career development, career awareness counseling, career exploration and vocational assessment - Job training in classroom, internship, on-the-job, and retraining - Prejob guidance including job interview training, job search resource center, job search techniques and resume preparation - Prevocational training - Job development - Public employment and training programs including WIA, summer youth employment and MFIP employment - Day care on sliding fee scale available; accepts children ages 16 months to 5 years
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Provides live interview coaching, online resume, and cover letter assistance. Also offers practice tests, an online writing lab, and skill-building tools in math, reading, and writing.
- Healthy Movement Programming includes:
- Athletic programs: Individual/teams including basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball
- Open gym and physical activities
- Outdoor and environmental education
- Conflict resolution
- Counseling
- Education/Computer Learning Center includes computer driving stimulation program to practice safe driving, basic instruction, and avoiding risky behaviors while driving
- Nutrition program includes:
- Healthy meal/snack served daily
- Nutrition education and meal preparation
- Gardening opportunities
- K - 8 Reading and literacy enrichment program for youth who have been assessed as needing focused reading support, and numeracy enrichment to assist youth in transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" skills with a focus on building math proficiencies
- K - 12 Academic enrichment program for youth to promote academic growth Offers 1:1 academic support including tutoring, skills to become self-directed learners, STEM focused activities and Mentoring program
- Leadership/citizenship groups
- Life skills education
- Teen Pathways College Readiness Program: Individualized support and assistance preparing youth for ACT/SAT exams, college applications, college visits and other assistance as needed to ensure student's progress
- Teen Pathways Employment Readiness Program: Individualized and mentoring support to enhance working and life skills including managing a checking account, creating a budget, saving and investing, career plans and mentoring, vocational exploration, interviewing techniques and additional services as needed to ensure a student's success beyond high school
- "Smart Moves" drug and alcohol use prevention program and premature sexual activity prevention
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Services include job counseling and career planning; job training and retraining, including basic computer skills, classroom training and on-the-job training
Offers employment services for individuals living with a disability to help them navigate employment options that are a right fit for them. The Employment Department of Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI) is available at all locations and works with each individual to find a match to meet employment goals. Services include:
- Career Skills Training: Help individuals build personal and professional development for lifelong career skills
- Community Placement Services: The Placement Team works with job seekers and referral sources to find the best employment fit for the individual's skills, abilities, and interests
- Job Placement: Offers meaningful work, such as assembling plastic containers, putting together kits for medical companies, and operating packaging equipment
- On-the-Job Training: Offers a support team to provide daily coaching, training, goal setting, identify skills/abilities, retain job, and more
Provides employment services that help with resume writing, build computer skills, find employment, and make and follow a plan to increase income through education and training. Services are personalized to meet clients' individual needs.
Provides individuals with a range of employment services, including:
- Career counseling
- Employment referrals
- Employment workshop
- English as a Second Language referrals
- GED
- Goal-setting with staff
- Helps with resumes, applications, and interviews
- High school diploma
- Information and referral
- Job placement assistance
- Life skills
- On-the-job training
- Paid work experience
- Post-high school education
- Reading and math skills assessments
- Tests to find interests
Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include:
- Benefits planning
- Career planning
- Follow-up support services
- Job coaching
- Job development services
- Job follow-up services
- Job placement
- Job-seeking skills training
- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support
- PASS and IRWE planning
- Person-centered planning
- Resume and cover letter development
- Supported employment
NOTE: Minnesota Employment Center (MEC) Saint Paul site is the only in-person office. Other MEC locations are virtual but will serve members across Minnesota.
- Healthy Movement Programming includes:
- Athletic programs: Individual/teams including basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball
- Open gym and physical activities
- Outdoor and environmental education
- Conflict resolution
- Counseling
- Education/Computer Learning Center includes computer driving stimulation program to practice safe driving, basic instruction, and avoiding risky behaviors while driving
- Nutrition program includes:
- Healthy meal/snack served daily
- Nutrition education and meal preparation
- Gardening opportunities
- K - 8 Reading and literacy enrichment program for youth who have been assessed as needing focused reading support, and numeracy enrichment to assist youth in transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" skills with a focus on building math proficiencies
- K - 12 Academic enrichment program for youth to promote academic growth Offers 1:1 academic support including tutoring, skills to become self-directed learners, STEM focused activities and Mentoring program
- Leadership/citizenship groups
- Life skills education
- Teen Pathways College Readiness Program: Individualized support and assistance preparing youth for ACT/SAT exams, college applications, college visits and other assistance as needed to ensure student's progress
- Teen Pathways Employment Readiness Program: Individualized and mentoring support to enhance working and life skills including managing a checking account, creating a budget, saving and investing, career plans and mentoring, vocational exploration, interviewing techniques and additional services as needed to ensure a student's success beyond high school
- "Smart Moves" drug and alcohol use prevention program and premature sexual activity prevention
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Providing career and vocational training
Provides employment and training services to young adults such as: - Assists with transition from school to higher education, the military, or employment - Career exploration - GED/Adult High School Diploma support - "Get Started" program to help enroll and complete an educational goal - Paid work experience/internships to learn skills needed to succeed in the job market - Possible funding for transportation, educational, or employment needs - Resume writing, classes on job search, job retention, and support services - Virtual courses in budgeting, communication, health and wellness, and community exploration
Career Pathways: Provides youth ages 14 – 24 who have faced systemic barriers to employment the opportunity to be introduced into the workforce by getting an internship at the YMCA. Beacons: Provides after-school and summer care for young people in grades K – 12 by partnering with Twin Cities area schools to provide quality educational, recreational, and leadership development activities and eliminate barriers to participation. Center for Youth Voice: Provides programs and services that help young people understand our system of government and how to effectively use their voice to take action on issues that matter to them. Teen Tech Center: Provides a technology-driven, interactive space for young people ages 12 – 24 to drop in, be creative, and develop new skills for free. Does not require a YMCA membership. Must be a member of the Teen Tech Center.
Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include:
- Benefits planning
- Career planning
- Follow-up support services
- Job coaching
- Job development services
- Job follow-up services
- Job placement
- Job-seeking skills training
- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support
- PASS and IRWE planning
- Person-centered planning
- Resume and cover letter development
- Supported employment
NOTE: Minnesota Employment Center (MEC) Saint Paul site is the only in-person office. Other MEC locations are virtual but will serve members across Minnesota.
Offers employment services at no cost, including job and career training, as well as employment and placement opportunities for youth. These programs are for youth who have nowhere else to turn for help to find employment, complete their education, and who need support to move forward. Services include paid internships, tuition to train for a new career, help finishing school or getting a GED, help with job hunting, and transportation assistance (such as bus fare cards).
Participants in Avivo's youth and young adult employment programs can also access short-term credentialed training options for higher-wage jobs, such as:
- Certified Nursing Assistance (CNA)
- Forklift Operator, including Forklift Operators Certification
- Culinary Arts and ServSafe certifications
- Enrollment opportunities in credentialed training at Avivo Institute of Career and Technical Education