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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Employment Preparation & Procurement, Homeless & Housing, Homeless Centers, Human Services, Job Training, Vocational Rehabilitation
Mission: Jobs Consortium's vision is that millions of our unemployed brothers and sisters, America's Frontline People, are employed--people who have fought our wars and kept our fragile peace; built our bridges, roads, houses, hospitals, offices; driven our buses and trucks; grown, harvested, prepared and served our food; worked our factories, some of them highly toxic; written our poems; played or sung our songs; kept our books; taught and raised our children; nursed us or provided personal care when we couldn't care for ourselves; built our spaceships and high-tech toys. . .America's Frontline People.
Programs: Jobs Consortium is dedicated to the philosophy and practice of client-centered services, which respects the inherent intelligence of each individual and his or her right to choose. Our service options include: * Outreach * Intake * Orientation * Client-Centered Assessment * Case Management * Job Counseling * Peer Disability Counseling * Addiction and Recovery Counseling * Job Preparation Workshops * Welfare-to-Work Services * Transitional Housing * Housing Stabilization * Children's Support and Play Groups * Parents' Support Groups * Peer Support Groups * Referrals * Job Clubs * Special (Career) Job Clubs * Childcare * Mentoring * Classroom Training * Literacy Counseling and Training * In-House Computer Skills Training * In-House Janitorial Skills Training * In-House (and On-Site) Carpentry Skills Training * Job Development * Job Fairs * Temp-to-Hire Services through RelyAble Choices, a division of Jobs Consortium * Job Placement * Pre- and Post-Placement Material Assistance * Follow-Up and Job Retention Services
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