PROGRAMS
Adult
Job Placement Services
We're
a job-seekers personal one-stop center. We help bring
together solid, experienced workers and motivated entry-level
workers with local businesses looking for quality job candidates. We
do the recruiting and assessment so the employer doesn't
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Youth
Education and Career Development
 Greater
West town Project provides a broad array of youth-focused
education, and workforce development services through West
Town Academy and the WIA/ Youth Mentoring Unit designed
to provide the skills, motivation and values that enable
our participants to take responsibility for themselves, their
families, and their communities. Our teachers, trainers,
mentors, and staff are highly trained and state certified
to provide flexible, personalized attention our goal is that
our program graduates become lifelong learners and contributors
to their communities and the larger society. Read
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Job
Training and Placement Programs
The
Greater West Town Training Project provides two sector-based
training programs in Woodworking
and Solid Surface Manufacturing and Shipping
and Receiving designed to help match the needs
of area manufacturers and local workers. Our classroom
curriculums and hands-on trainings have been developed in
partnership with local industry and continuously updated
by community business leaders to ensure that the skills that
participants develop in class are marketable and meet current
industry standards. Read
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Research
and Advocacy
 Since
its inception, GWTP has pursued ongoing research, public
education, and advocacy activities which pose solutions to
the problems that create barriers to educational and economic
opportunities for area residents. GWTP is a founding member
of the "Community Coalition on the Dropout Crisis" (CCDC),
an umbrella group of Chicago community organizations dedicated
to addressing the severe dropout crisis in the Chicago Public
Schools (CPS). Read
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