Across the country and across sectors, everyone is talking skills. Skills-gap, upskilling, soft skills, skill building, and many more buzz words have infiltrated workforce development, education, and talent conversations. Ultimately, the same 3 questions come up: what skills do companies…
Grace Heffernan Everywhere I turn it seems like people are talking about the changing nature of work. In fact, just last month as a part of In Demand Jobs Week, OMJ ClevelandICuyahoga County hosted Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) to…
This February, The Fund for Our Economic Future, a Northeast Ohio regional alliance of funders, published Two Tomorrows and asked us all to make a choice for our future. Do we want it to be just average … or extraordinary? Choosing…
Last month, Towards Employment was represented at the National Skills Coalition (NSC) annual Skills Summit, a conference that engages stakeholders from across the country in a national agenda to help build up our country’s workforce and the policy changes to…
Towards Employment staff participated in Making a Clear Pathway: Transitioning for Successful Reentry organized by the Literacy Cooperative in conjunction with Cuyahoga Community College, Seeds of Literacy, Cuyahoga County Public Library and Towards Employment. The event helped adult literacy providers…
In August 2015, Ellen stepped up and onto a career pathway. She was a returning citizen who went through Towards Employment job readiness program. She decided she wanted a career in construction and after a work experience with Habitat for…
As a new mother, Ebonee was craving stability. With a child to support, she realized she lacked a clear direction and had no idea how to find a steady job to support herself and her child. A cousin told her…
Through funding from the US Department of Labor to Ohio Means Jobs Cleveland/Cuyahoga, Towards Employment (TE) provides services under Reentry Integration Services for Employment, or RiSE. RiSE is a voluntary program, housed at the Euclid Jail, that provides comprehensive job…
Bri Snoddy School: Miami University Field of Study: Psychology major, criminology minor Year of study: Rising senior Hometown: Cleveland Why were you interested in interning at TE? I was interested in working at TE because of the emphasis on the…
Colin Lang School: Xavier University Field of Study: History and Philosophy, Politics, and the Public Year of study: Junior Hometown: Westlake, OH Why were you interested in interning at TE? I found out TE's goal and mission from my brother…