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Increasing
Personal & Economic Independence through Employment
Women and men find the best
possible job in the shortest possible time in JOBS NOW
– a one week program that features individual assessment, job targeting,
job search training, and job placement assistance. Job placement rate
in 1999 was 80%.
Each year the JOBS
NOW Job Fair matches over 40 employers with approximately 1,500
potential applicants from throughout the community.
Low-income women and their
families escape welfare and poverty through the Strengthening
Families program. In this long-term collaborative program, The
Women's Center helps poor women with limited work experience:
- Prepare for work and overcome
barriers to employment through life skills and job success training,
remedial education, and job skills training.
- Find a job and go to work.
- Advance in the labor market
through post employment support .
The Strengthening Families
program is provided from a number of service sites throughout the community:
- The Women's Center Central
Office - Hemphill Street
- Near
Northside Partners Council Offices
- The Women's Center
Arlington Office
- Resource Connection
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Significant
Facts and Trends
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Years
ago, it was predicted that by the year 2000, 85% of new entrants
into the labor market would be women, minorities and immigrants.
We are there!
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Nearly
half of families headed by women with children under the age
of 18 live in poverty.
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Single
mothers and their dependent children make up most of the poverty
population. One of every five children in Texas is living
in poverty.
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Current
unemployment statistics mask the reality that whole communities
and categories of people, generally minorities and women,
are still unemployed, underemployed and consigned to poverty.
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The
largest number of new jobs being created are part-time/no
benefits jobs in the low-income service sector.
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Experts
link chronic unemployment to hunger, homelessness, family
violence, drug abuse and crime including drug sales and gang
activity.
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Employers
report serious basic skills deficiencies and lack of work
ethic in a significant number of new employees, especially
in entry-level jobs.
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Studies
show that a mother's reading level is the best predictor of
her children's success in school.
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