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.

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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.

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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.  

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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).  

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