Services include, but are not limited to: ?- Assistance with resumes, job applications, and interview preparations ?- Budgeting assistance ?- Career counseling and exploration ?- Employment and job search workshops ??- Goal setting ?- Introduction to listings of regional job openings ?- Job placement assistance ??- On-the-job training opportunities ?- Paid work experience programs with local employers ?- Post-high school education assistance - Referrals to other service agencies that may be of assistance ?- Skill training in reading, math, job, and life skills ?- Supportive services such as transportation, childcare, housing, etc. may be available if eligible for one of the programs. ?- Tests and assessments to find interest levels and skills

Works with low-income, unemployed, or underemployed job seekers who would like to earn a livable income and attain their financial and educational goals through achieving full time work. Adult Employment: Provides resources, training, and skill-building including coaching, career exploration, and retention counseling

Provides income-eligible Hennepin County residents in attaining living-wage jobs and removing employment barriers. The program includes resume support, interview readiness training, finding job leads, and maintaining 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.

Assists with competitive job placement and retention, with services typically provided on a weekly basis with client needs and preferences taken into consideration

Helps women and men who have been the primary caretaker at home and lost their primary income, suddenly needed to provide for their family. Helps participants find worthwhile employment and livable wage jobs to support their families. Services include personal assessments, individual counseling, education and training, job search and placement support, networking and support, and other short-term assistance.

- 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

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.

- Computer Classes: Business Resources, Computer Basics, Internet Basics, Word 2010, Your Library Online, and more - Copier and scanner - Home library service - iLab with makerspace technologies - Interlibrary loans - Online research tools - Print and non-print materials including regular and large print books, books on CD, paperbacks, music CDs, video games, audio tapes, DVDs, described videos, newspapers, pamphlets, and magazines - Public meeting rooms - Reference and information services including Internet and web access - Sponsors and hosts book clubs - Streaming and downloadable media (audiobooks, eBooks, movies, music, and television programs) - Storytimes and summer reading program for youth

Provides a community center offer services such as: - Counseling and support for new immigrants - Employment referral and assistance - English as a Second Language and citizenship classes - Forms and applications assistance for Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicare, Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare, public housing, childcare assistance, WIC, or Head Start programs - Health counseling and education - Home care services contracted with Medica offering homemaking and PCA services to older adults and individuals living with a disability - Parenting skills counseling - Senior program offering socialization and activities as well as seminars on health, immigration, and social services every other month - Translation services - Transportation assistance for health appointments, benefits appointments, and school - Youth programs such as a summer youth program helping children who are academically at risk, lack English skills, and have minimal education improve their academics and learning

- Day training and habilitation - Employment transitioning training - Extended employment for people with disabilities - Job placement services - Mental health vocational programs - Supervised community living residential services - Senior services - School-to-work transition - Transportation services - Vocational assessment - Work, training, and professional contact opportunities

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

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

Assists with competitive job placement and retention, with services typically provided on a weekly basis with client needs and preferences taken into consideration

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

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Day Labor Program gives Leech Lake Band members the opportunity to increase their job skills while helping to make a positive difference in our communities.

Food Support recipients may be required to participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) program. Each participant is first provided with an orientation to program services followed by an individual assessment and completion of an employability plan. Depending on the individual's needs, they may take part in job seeking training, group and individual job search activities, remedial literacy or other adult basic education, English language training, short-term vocational or technical training, job placement, and assistance with transportation or other supportive services. Participants who fail to comply with program requirements are subject to sanctions and could temporarily or permanently lose food benefits.

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 interested

Provides support to help individuals reach their employment goals. support can help discover interests and talents, assists in job searching, assists in developing skills needed to work, how to keep jobs, assists with career advancement, provides assistance in obtaining driver's licenses, and how to advocate for oneself.

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

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.

- Job development, placement, coaching, and long-term follow-up services - Job site training for new employee with performing job tasks or with understanding the work culture and environment - Staff review the local labor market for jobs to match the skills and qualities of Goodwill workers - Staff works with employers to assure the employers production and quality standards are met

Adult partial subsidy program Participants who demonstrate that they are work ready and who are hired into career oriented, long-term, stable employment may arrange to have the first 720 hours of their new employment subsidized. These subsidies are paid to the employer, not the employee. A special contract with the employer is required that specifies the terms of agreement for the employer and Aanjibimaadizing. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. Adult support services Single payments to vendors to assist participants in overcoming specific, immediate and essential family stabilization or employment related barriers. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. The expenses must: - Be directly related to education or employment ?- Verified as not otherwise provided free of charge or available from other resources ?- Be the only way available to meet the need ?- Be documented with evidence of the need verified Adult work experience (WEX) program A 720-hour on-the-job work experience training program structured to promote self-sufficiency through the development of appropriate work habits and job skills. The program targets four critical work behaviors: achievement, reliability, safety, and team building. Participant households must be below 200% of poverty guidelines. The program's incentives are directly related to mastery of these four program behaviors. The program is designed to move the participant to unsubsidized, career-oriented work by building their work skills. Career training and development program Provides basic work and family related trainings and tutoring. These include such issues as: GED preparation, driver's license tests, budgeting, parenting, CPR/first aid, food handling, communications, and conflict management. Households must be below 300% of poverty guidelines. Ge-Niigaanizijig youth program Activities and regularly scheduled meetings to inspire and motivate youth to embrace a traditions based pro-social lifestyle free of chemicals, anti-social or risky behavior, promiscuity, and dependency. Activities are offered to all eligible reservation service area youth from kindergarten through age 20. Income verification is required. Children in families living at or below 200 percent of the poverty guideline qualify. Children who are over-income may be supported by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Cash incentives and awards are made to any Ge-Niigaanizijig youth who meet program participation and achievement goals. Youth career and work exploration program Youth, ages 16 -20 whose family's income is below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline may participate. Youth are given an incentive for actual hours worked. To be eligible youth must be in school, making satisfactory attendance and grades. The type of work and the number of hours worked per week depend on the needs of the worksite supervisor. Youth support services Youth ages three through six who live in households that are below 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline and who are enrolled in daycare or school may receive supportive services for such things as: - (For Cash Assistance Families only) a fall and winter school clothing assistance - Athletic or academic program fees and supplies - Boarding school support costs including travel and supplies (based on a program recommendation/required list) - Driver's education costs - Leadership, education or cultural camp costs, including tuition, travel, and supplies (based on a program recommendation/required list) - New employment clothing and/or supplies when required by the employer - Special tutor costs (such as individual music lessons)

Provides one-on-one employment assistance services such as: - Assist with creating resume, cover letter, thank you notes, references, etc. - Develop networking strategies - Explore career paths and build skills - Identify employment interests, skills, experience, and work history - Identify resources for finding available positions - Practice interviewing skills

Provides services to employees including a benefit plan that provides medical, dental insurance, 401 (k) and 403 (b) plans, Employee Assistance Program, Compensation Specialist, and Training Opportunities. - Summary of Job Openings is updated weekly - May request a complete job description for any position listed - HR must receive application documents before, or no later than, 4:30 pm on the date the position is scheduled to close. Late applications after 4:30 pm will NOT be accepted.