A multi-service community-based facility offering a range of support services and resources to enhance skills, employability and long-term career mobility to traditionally under-served populations. Services include: - One-to-one assistance with resume, job search and entry-level placement needs - Job placement, retention and ongoing support services for program graduates - Career development, career awareness, career change counseling, career exploration, vocational assessment - Professional development designed specifically for currently-employed workers - A computer lab that provides self-directed technology usage, as well as more formal instruction - Sector-based classroom job skill programs in partnership with major employers in healthcare and banking - Work readiness training programs for individuals with criminal histories - Employment training and benefits eligibility and review for individuals with HIV/AIDS - Access to information about GED and post-secondary educational programs - Financial literacy coaching - Homebuyer education and pre/post purchase counseling

The Office of Workforce Development offers support and opportunity for residents to obtain employment and achieve their career goals. Offers a range of employment and training services such as: Hennepin Pathways: A collaboration between regional employers, educators, and community partners offering education of multiple career paths to choose from. Graduates from a particular program are employed countywide in office administration, human services, and building operations. The program meets county hiring needs while also connecting job seekers with meaningful work, livable wages, benefits, and career growth. Job Development: Serves a diverse group of job seekers, including veterans, youth, and individuals with criminal background who have a wide range of skills, abilities, and experiences. Provides employment services to job seekers such as job training, employment, career assistance programs, and help unemployed and underemployed people find jobs. Visit website for more information about job fairs, hiring events, job resources, education and training, and community CareerForce centers. Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Employment Services: Supports participants on MFIP as they transition from poverty to economic self-sufficiency to reduce the likelihood of returning to the program. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Dislocated Worker, Adult, and Youth Programs: A federally funded program to increase jobseeker's access to employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market while matching employers with skilled workers to meet the demand of occupations and industries. Improve workforce quality, reduce public benefits dependency, and meet employer skill requirements. Each organization will have their own application process. Job seekers will typically go through a process such as: - Application, eligibility determination, and program enrollment - Formal and informal assessments (education level, interests, workforce skills, work history, etc.) - Development of an Individual Employment Plan: Determining service needs based on assessments (career and resume counseling, job search assistance, training/education services, etc.) - Retention Services: Ensuring individuals have the resources to maintain unsubsidized employment after exiting the program

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

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

Provides specialized programs to help individuals with disabilities find and maintain employment within their community. - Employment Development: Focuses on developing skills including work orientation, work activity training, community orientation, and personal habit development for work and personal life - Employment Exploration: Includes informational interviews, employer site tours, peer mentoring, and job shadows - Employment Support: Offers group or individual placement with business partners in an integrated community setting, with support tailored to each person's needs - Vocational Rehab: Provides services such as internships, job tryouts, on-the-job evaluations, placement services, paid work experiences, and transportation training.

Comprehensive orientation to blindness training program which includes classes in braille, cane travel, home management, computers, industrial arts, career exploration, and life skills. Other services include: - Buddy Program: Kinship program for blind children ages 9 - 14 - ELL: English Language Learners - Evaluation of job readiness - Internet-based job search - Job development - Job seeking skills training - PREP Program: Life skills training for youth ages 14 - 22 - Program for those 55 and older who are losing their sight - Staff training for service providers - Teaches a positive attitude toward blindness - Writing own rehabilitation plan

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

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about: - Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette - Insight to job searching tools and practices - How to write a targeted cover letter - Importance of professional emails - Workshop schedule and expectations - Computer lab for youth and adults EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer. - Choose a career path - Attend training while working - Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals - Launch a career with employers that are hiring now Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace. - Develop effective strategies for job searching - Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit - Practice interviewing skills - Resume and cover letter building - Modern day job market insight and know-how EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

Participants gain work experience and learn new job skills to become productive and successful workers The program provides training activities in the following areas: - Acquire resume-building work experiences and vocational training - Develop needed work skills and strengthen their work capacity - Establish the next steps for competitive employment goals - Job performance and progress - Orientation to the work environment - Orientation to work duties - Safety in the workplace - Self-confidence

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

Offers center-based programs, community employment and work services including candle manufacturing, recycling, culinary arts, clerical duties, enclave work sites and/or recreational opportunities. Chore services program during the summer. Day Services provides the following: - Day Support Services - Day Training and Habilitation (DT&H) - Employment Development Services - Employment Exploration Services - Employment Support Services: Helps explore the persons interests, identify their skills, create resumes, fill out job applications, practice interviews, and help with transportation needs - Pre-vocational - Structured Day

Provides vocationally-based wrap-around services based on an individual's needs, interests, and experiences. Service offered: - Customized employment discovery services - Employee development services - Informational Interviews - Internship services - Job coaching - Job seeking skills training - Job shadow - Job tryout services - On-the-Job evaluation services - Work experiences

- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses - Work skills development - Supported employment - Community employment

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

Offers a variety of service options to promote independence including: - Day support services - Employment development services - Employment exploration services - Employment support services - Prevocational training Offers services for vocational rehabilitation including: - Extended employment basic (EE) - Job coaching - Job placement - Work evaluations

Provides employment exploration, development, and support services. - Employment exploration services: Helps individuals gain a better understanding of competitive, integrated employment opportunities and provides activities and experiences which help to strengthen their knowledge, interests, and preferences to make informed decisions about competitive employment. - Employment development services: Helps individuals find competitive, integrated employment, become self-employed or establish a micro-enterprise business. - Employment support services: Provides supports that help individuals maintain paid employment in community businesses/settings.

Services: - Medical exams - Psychological evaluations - Work evaluations as needed to determine eligibility for DRS services. - Hearing aids, prosthesis, and rehabilitation technology as needed for employment. - On-the-job training - Job coaching - Post-secondary training - Other types of training needed to reach a vocational goal. - Planning and employment services such as counseling and guidance, job placement, and small business set up. - Other services such as interpreters, vehicle adaptations, and etc as needed by the individual.

- Youthbuild participants spend one week in academic and leadership activities - Alternate week focuses on construction training and leadership development - 29 hours per week in a training program Program combines: - Academics - Leadership development - Construction training Participant responsibilities including working on the following: - High school diploma or GED - Job skills building - Work experience - Leadership - Service learning projects

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

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

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about: - Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette - Insight to job searching tools and practices - How to write a targeted cover letter - Importance of professional emails - Workshop schedule and expectations - Computer lab for youth and adults EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer. - Choose a career path - Attend training while working - Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals - Launch a career with employers that are hiring now Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace. - Develop effective strategies for job searching - Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit - Practice interviewing skills - Resume and cover letter building - Modern day job market insight and know-how EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

Offers a variety of service options to promote independence including: - Day support services - Employment development services - Employment exploration services - Employment support services - Prevocational training Offers services for vocational rehabilitation including: - Extended employment basic (EE) - Job coaching - Job placement - Work evaluations

Assists persons with disabilities to find job placement within the community. - Career planning - Job development and placement - Personalized support - Welfare-to-work services