Hired supports individuals, families and youth through comprehensive employment services to learn new skills and achieve their academic and career goals. Programs are available throughout the Twin Cities, but not all programs are offered at every site. - Adult Employment/WIOA Program: The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) serves individuals who are looking to improve their skills and advance their careers. - Career Training Program: Provides counseling, training, workshops, and job search assistance. Participants build skills and gain professional qualifications to find employment that is a right fit for them. - Dislocated Workers Program: Assistance with professional career guidance, training assistance, and job placement services to individuals who have lost their job through no fault of their own. - Family Stability/MFIP - Minnesota Family Investment Program: Assistance for parents who receive MFIP to help them build family-sustaining careers. - Youth Services: Provides coaching, support, and training to help youth and young adults complete a diploma or GED, explore careers, and gain employment in a field they are passionate about.

Provides bilingual and culturally appropriate employment services including: - Career preparation trainings - Digital literacy programs - Dislocated Worker Program (DWP) - Employer partnerships - Employment counseling and placement assistance - Employment readiness classes - Hiring events

Helps students explore career options and develop plans for transition from high school to post-secondary training and/or competitive employment. Individual services include: ?- Career awareness ?- Career placement ?- Career preparation ?- Discussions and information on non-traditional employment options and identification of career pathways ?- Individualized wraparound or support services ?- Self-advocacy ?- Work-based learning ?- Work-readiness skills training Group services include: ?- Career awareness ?- Career exploration ?- Career placement ?- Information on opportunities for enrollment in comprehensive transition or post-secondary educational programs, including admission processes, and support resources ?- Work-readiness skills training ?- Self-advocacy instruction

Prepares participants by providing the tools to develop hard and soft skills, reach career goals and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Career training coaches are available to assist every step of the way by preparing participants for college-level classes, connecting them to employers and helping to build professional skills and networks. Healthcare Career Pathways: Helps participants build skills, reach career goals, and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Provides a training coach that prepares participants for college-level classes, connections to employers, and builds professional skills and networks. Courses offered include English for Industry, Nursing Assistant, Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, and Nursing Assistant Refresher. Career Essential Workshop: Provides a two-part MFIP/DWP workshop that offers basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette, insight to job searching tools and practices, how to write a targeted cover letter, the importance of professional emails, and workshop schedule and expectations. Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellness: Provides classes that help participants increase financial management skills and learn to navigate financial systems. Classes include: budgeting to create savings, asset building and debt reduction, building a good credit report, and consumer protection and financial institutions. Class A Commerical Driver's License Program: Helps participants earn a CDL for free by providing a training coach. Provides an immersive and hands-on training program held at the Interstate Truck Driving School. Re-Entry Services: Provides adults recently paroled or released an opportunity to gain proper credentials in trainings such as Class A Commercial Driver's License. In addition to job training and career planning, participants will have access to transportation assistance and financial coaching. Welding and CNC Machining: Offers participants that have completed Manufacturing Foundations, the opportunity to pursue advanced manufacturing programs at Hennepin Technical College that includes 7 - 10 month certificates in Gas Metal Arc Welding or CNC Machining. Program also prepares participants an opportunity to continue their education and earn an associate's degree in a skilled trade.

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

Public assistance work program including career planning, job search assistance, access to specialized career services, and support services.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency including: - Adult education - Budgeting assistance - Career planning - Computer classes - Interviewing skills - Job search assistance - Post-secondary education - Resume development - Short-term training - Support services - Transportation assistance - Vocational interest

Provides the following: - Comprehensive job assistance including employment counseling, job referrals, job placements, and job development - Citizenship education

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

Services include job counseling and career planning; job training and retraining, including basic computer skills, classroom training and on-the-job training

Career Services SOAR participants receive professional one on one support from their Career Specialist while working on developing their employment plan. The employment plan includes employment goals and milestones and identifies potential barriers to employment success. Career Specialists will assist participants to reduce barriers (i.e. transportation, child care, employment scheduling, education attainment level) associated with goal completion. Career Specialists will support participants to develop their resumes and applications, practice mock interviews, engage in job search efforts and help increase overall work readiness skills. Once participants obtain employment, their Career Specialist will continue one on one case management support to assist in addressing any new barriers that may threaten long-term employment and ensure employment retention. Career Exploration Career Specialists will work with participants to identify their skills, interests and learning style, and then match their results to career fields that are the "best fit" for them. Participants will learn about employment opportunities and how to move up in their chosen career field and gain insight into the work culture, wage ranges and educational requirements. Participants will also get the opportunity to meet with employers and employees from different industries, and go on tours of different work sites. All of these activities will provide participants with a clear variety of high-demand industries in northeastern MN. Career exploration opportunities include the hospitality, manufacturing, construction/building trades, healthcare and transportation industries and more.

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.

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

Services for persons who are unemployed, welfare recipients, dislocated workers, older workers and youth located in neighborhood centers. Services include: - Vocational assessment and counseling, career change counseling, career awareness - Skills training through apprenticeships, classroom training, internships, on-the-job training - Layoff preparation - Job information including job banks, job fairs, and job lines - Interview training, job search techniques, resume preparation assistance - Prevocational training - Job development - WIA program - Summer youth employment programs (STEP-UP) - School to career programs - MFIP employment services for eligible recipients - Other support services

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

Services include job counseling and career planning; job training and retraining, including basic computer skills, classroom training and on-the-job training

Employment counselors help SNAP clients in gaining skills and abilities to obtain employment to gain self-sufficiency including: - Adult education - Budgeting assistance - Career planning - Computer classes - Interviewing skills - Job search assistance - Post-secondary education - Resume development - Short-term training - Support services - Transportation assistance - Vocational interest

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.

Services include job counseling and career planning; job training and retraining, including basic computer skills, classroom training and on-the-job training