EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS

   

Serving unemployed and underemployed women and men
817-927-4050

The Women's Center believes passionately in the value of strong, long-term and short-term employment programs that help people get into the labor market, build skills, earn income, advance in the labor market and be financially self-sufficient.

There are three main Employment programs:

Jobs Now!
A two-week group-training program that features individual assessment, job targeting, job search training, and job placement assistance, designed to help people find the best possible job in the shortest possible time:

Proven Job Search Techniques

  • Job Leads
  • Interview Preparation
  • Self-Marketing Skills
  • Career Exploration
  • Job Placement Assistance
  • Resume Assistance
  • Job Advancement Strategies and Assistance
  • Computer Lab with Internet Access
  • Follow-up with clients for 5 months to support job search
  • Job retention and advancement support after placement for up to one year
  • Job Placement Rate in 2004 was 81%
  • Job Retention Rate in 2004 was 78%

    There is no cost to participate in this program.

    Some of our previous participants say it all:

    —"I have been all over the metroplex from program to program, some very costly, but none as productive, professional and dynamic as this program"

    —"This is quality, useful information, really related to a real life job search!"

    • Strengthening Family Services
    An intensive job readiness and placement service for welfare families who want better futures:

  • Staff assistance in planning and problem solving
  • Development of life and work management skills
  • Job placement assistance
  • Assessment of skills and career interests
  • Individualized job search assistance and placement
  • Referrals for barrier removal (education, child care, transportation, reading improvement, etc)

    Participants must pre-qualify with Department of Human Services or the Workforce Center.

    This program is provided in partnership with six Workforce Centers in Tarrant County:

  • The Women's Center office in the Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development in Arlington
  • The Eastside Workforce Center in Fort Worth
  • Resource Connection Workforce Center in Fort Worth
  • Northside Workforce Center
  • Westside Workforce Center
  • Mid-Cities Workforce Center
    • Individual Employment Assistance
    This job search service is primarily for the unemployed and under-employed, who cannot participate in JOBS NOW! training classes. Clients must be referred by a Women's Center staff person.

  • Advisement regarding your job search or career advancement
  • Job leads and resume assistance
  • Follow-up by trained employment advisors
  • Career assessment inventory available for a small fee

    • Statistics

    • Experts link chronic unemployment to hunger, homelessness, family violence, drug abuse and crime including drug sales and gang activity.
    • Studies show that a mother's reading level is the best predictor of her children's success in school.
    • 70% of part-time workers are women. Further, over one million women earn wages below the Federal minimum wage *
    • In female-headed households, the median family income was over 40% LESS than male-headed (with no wife present) household median income.*
    • In 2,000, full-day child care costs range from $4,000 to $10,000 per year—at least as much as college tuition.*
    • In Texas, 35.6% of working families must get by on income that is less than 200% of the Federal Poverty line, compared to 27.8% of the United States at large.**
    • 28% of Texas jobs are in occupations that pay below the poverty level.**
    • In Texas, 23.4% of workers aged 18 to 64 do not have health insurance. The national figure is 16.2%.**
    • In Texas 69% of unemployed workers did not receive unemployment insurance benefits compared to 57% nationally.**

      * © Copyright 2003, BPW/USA
      ** Source: Center for Public Policy Priorities


      2005 Record of Service figures