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 have
to. Read More
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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