Excerpt from original press release:
“During the worst economic times that most of us can remember, families everywhere are hurting and struggling to get by and pay their bills. A large part of government’s responsibility at all levels is to protect our working families by speeding up our economic recovery, growing our economy and getting people back to work,” Daley said.
The workforce center is a place where residents who previously had jobs and want to continue working receive free services such as skills assessments, job search assistance, help in creating resumes and access to other support. It is also the place local businesses go to find skilled workers.
The new Chicago Workforce Center in Pilsen is operated by a group of city and state partner agencies and the not-for-profit National Able Network is the delegate agency that receives federal Workforce Investment Act funding through the City for the center.
National Able has invested more than $2 million in the new building, which will be able to serve as many as 700 individuals a day.
The Pilsen facility is the first Workforce Center managed by a not-for-profit organization, Daley said, and is proving to be a model for efficient delivery of services and easy access for the clients it serves.
The new building has 22,000 square feet, with more meeting and classroom space, more computers and more partners on site to help job seekers than the facility it replaced.
Services and programs are offered by:
• Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
• National Able Network, Inc.
• Illinois Department of Employment Security
• Chicago Department of Community Development
• Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
• Illinois Department of Veteran Affairs
• City Colleges of Chicago
• LIFT
• Job Corps
• Westside Holistic Family Services
• Illinois Department of Human Services
The orginal article can be found here.
