Adult Employment Services offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Firwood Circle Office
Offers comprehensive support for career development and financial stability, including job placement, career counseling, workforce preparation and vocational training. Tailored to meet the needs of low-income adults facing barriers to employment.
Offers comprehensive support for career development and financial stability, including job placement, career counseling, workforce preparation and vocational training. Tailored to meet the needs of low-income adults facing barriers to employment.
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WIOA Programs
Career Counseling
Career Exploration
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Prevocational Training
Employment Coaching offered at Cares of Washington
Provides employment, self sufficiency and asset development services to people with disabilities and low income individuals/families. Services are tailored to individual needs of each client and focus on developing economic self-sufficiency.
Provides career coaching, self-sufficiency, financial planning/benefits counseling and asset development services.
Services are tailored to individual needs of each client and focus on developing long-term economic self-sufficiency.
Services include
- Career guidance and planning
- Goal setting
- Skills assessment and job training
- Job placement
- Job coaching
- Help with support services such as work clothing and equipment or licenses
- Developing a personal budget
- Access to credit repair and debt repayment assistance
- Education about tax credits for working families
- Access to community resources
- Assistance with food costs and transportation
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Prejob Guidance
Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Career Counseling
Vocational Rehabilitation
Peer Support Services offered at Peer Olympia
Provides peer coaching, support groups, employment support, and resource connections.
Offers multiple support, education, and socialization groups.
Peer coaches empower people to achieve a solid recovery foundation and achieve life goals. Peer coaches support individuals in recovery from:
- Addiction Issues (chemical/behavioral)
- Mental Health Challenges (short/long term diagnosis, grief & loss)
- Chronic Illness (HIV/Hep C – Newly Dealing/Newly Diagnosed)
Peer coaches are individually matched with people seeking support in their recovery. The matched pair meets for one hour per week for 26 weeks.
Coaches are individuals in recovery who have reached long-term stability.
Peer Employment Connections
Offers weekly peer support groups that support participants to address fears and barriers about returning to work or work through obstacles they are encountering in their job.
Offers vocational assessments, job search tools, resume building, interview preparation, coaching, benefits planning, employment-related clothing and transportation support, and ongoing support for job retention.
Resource Connections
Offers individualized support to identify and access a range of community resources such as housing or medical care.
Participants meet one-to-one with a peer to help make the linkages to essential supports.
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Prejob Guidance
Peer Mental Health Support Services
Peer Counseling
Employment/Retirement Related Support Groups
Life Coaching
General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
Families/Friends of Individuals With a Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Employment Support offered at IKRON Greater Seattle in Bellevue
Offers support services to help participants successfully integrate into the community through employment. Includes employment assistance, behavioral health services and care coordination. Focuses on helping those with substantial barriers to employment.
Offers services to help participants successfully integrate into the community through employment. Includes employment services, behavioral health services and care coordination.
Provides vocational evaluations to identify realistic career options and work abilities. Offers job seeking skills training, which prepares clients to apply, interview, and secure a job. Additionally provides job search assistance as well as job retention services once a client has obtained a job.
Behavioral health services include psycho-socio assessments, to identify emotional issues, cognitive skills, barriers, and academic abilities as well as counseling, case management and recovery services.
Care coordinators are available to assist participants with navigating and integrating their health care and social service needs.
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Career Counseling
Prevocational Training
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Foundational Community Supports Employment offered by Wellpoint
Provides Medicaid recipients with behavioral or physical health issues, non-tangible person-centered supportive services to connect to and maintain employment.
Provides Medicaid recipients with behavioral or physical health issues non-tangible person-centered supportive services to connect to and maintain employment. Supports can include:
- Assessing for the right job fit
- Interview coaching
- Establishing helpful routines
- Coordination with employer for on-going supports
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Prejob Guidance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Homeless Employment Programs
Employment & Training Services offered by WorkSource in Auburn One-Stop Center
Offers individual job search assistance and job preparedness workshops. Provides a list of job openings, computerized job matching system, employer services and phone and computer access for filing employment insurance benefits.
Offers a wide variety of services for job seekers, from individual job search assistance to an extensive list of workshops designed to help job search preparedness. Announcements of jobs within the state of Washington can be obtained at any WorkSource Center, Affiliate or online.
Provides computer access to apply for Washington State Unemployment Insurance.
Provides access to community and technical college programs and financial resources for retraining.
Helps people find employment who have lost their jobs through company downsizing or plant closures.
Other services may include the following:
- Case management
- Job readiness training
- Career counseling
- Vocational assessment
- Individualized job search assistance
- Job fairs
- Employer connections
- Career development workshops
- Follow-up services
- Educational scholarships.
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Business Assistance Centers
Career Counseling
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
State Unemployment Insurance Applications
Prejob Guidance
Public Access Computers/Tools
Job Banks
Job Search/Placement
Computer Help offered at Elizabeth Gregory Home
Provides one-on-one computer help for women ages 18 and older; no kids. Offers basic computer skills training, resume writing and job and housing search assistance. Pets allowed.
Offers one-on-one assistance with computers by EGH staff and volunteers. Possible types of assistance include the following:
- Basic computer skills, such as setting up an email or Facebook account.
- Job search
- Resume writing
- Housing search
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Job Search Resource Centers
Public Internet Access Sites
Job Search/Placement
Housing Search Assistance
Prejob Guidance
Trades Rotation Program offered by ANEW
Designed to prepare women for success in the skilled trades.
TRP is designed to prepare woman for success in the skilled trades. Over 12 weeks, participants gain hands-on experience in a variety of construction skills, earn industry-recognized certifications, and connect directly with apprenticeship programs and employers. With ongoing support and career placement services, TRP gives women the tools and confidence to launch into high-demand, living-wage careers in construction.
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Occupation Specific Job Training
Technical/Trade Schools
Prejob Guidance
Job Connections Center offered at Shoreline Community College
Offers career planning and job search assistance to students and other members of the community.
Offers a wide range of services, including job search, job referrals, and career planning.
Provides on-campus employment security staff, work-based learning internships, and employment preparation workshops.
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Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Employment Services offered by TRAC Associates in Kent
Offers job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services. Special programs available for low-income adults, people with disabilities, veterans, refugees or DSHS clients.
Matches employers to job seekers by providing employment services.
Services include job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services.
Offers these services through direct referral and coordination of city, county, state and federal programs.
Also offers employer services, including screening of potential applicants, supervisory training and outplacement services.
Programs include the following employment services.
Not all services offered at all locations:
Community Jobs Initiative (CJI)
Offers paid (minimum wage) internships to job seekers looking to build skills for employment.
Participants must currently receive TANF cash assistance of DSHS - Community Services Office.
This program is implemented through extensive partnerships among state agencies (including DSHS, Employment Security, and the Board of Community and Technical Colleges).
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Placement Services (DVR).
Provides vocational assessment, internship development, and monitoring and job placement services for adults with disabilities who are referred by DSHS - DVR counselors.
Limited English Pathway Placement Services
Offers job readiness workshops, job placement services, skills trainings, and job retention and county wage progression services as well as English language class referrals for King and Snohomish adults with limited English.
Participants must be at least 18 years old and either a refugee with documentation or currently receive TANF cash assistance from DSHS - Community Services Offices.
This is a program of DSHS and the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (ORIA).
Veterans Administration Placement Services Employment and training assessment, job placement and job retention services for service connected disabled veterans referred by the Veterans Administration.
Contact Harriet Klein (206) 443-9999 for more information.
Workers Compensation Services Provides vocational assessment, vocational plan development, and monitoring of vocational training programs for injured workers referred by Washington State Labor and Industries Department, including the Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Services/Dislocated Worker Services.
Provides job readiness workshops, job placement services, vocational training, and job retention services for adults.
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Job Search/Placement
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Business Consulting Services
Prejob Guidance
On the Job Training
Veteran Employment Programs
Employment Support offered at IKRON Greater Seattle in North Seattle
Offers support services to help participants successfully integrate into the community through employment. Includes employment assistance, behavioral health services and care coordination. Focuses on helping those with substantial barriers to employment.
Offers services to help participants successfully integrate into the community through employment. Includes employment services, behavioral health services and care coordination.
Provides vocational evaluations to identify realistic career options and work abilities. Offers job seeking skills training, which prepares clients to apply, interview, and secure a job. Additionally provides job search assistance as well as job retention services once a client has obtained a job.
Behavioral health services include psycho-socio assessments, to identify emotional issues, cognitive skills, barriers, and academic abilities as well as counseling, case management and recovery services.
Care coordinators are available to assist participants with navigating and integrating their health care and social service needs.
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Career Counseling
Job Search/Placement
Prevocational Training
Prejob Guidance
LEP Employment Services offered by Refugee Federation Service Center in Kent
Offers employment training and vocational ESL for refugees; serves low-income refugees and immigrants making 80% of the state's median income or below.
Acts as a direct referral from DSHS Community Service Offices for refugees new to the system who need employment services.
Services include pre-employment training, vocational English as a second language (ESL) classes, skills training, job placement and customized employment training in specific fields, such as hotel housekeeping.
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Prejob Guidance
Vocational English as a Second Language
Classroom Training
Job Search/Placement
Section 8 Employment offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Greenbridge Learning Center
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents; includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents, designed to reduce barriers between public housing residents and their neighbors in the surrounding community. Includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
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English as a Second Language
Prejob Guidance
Computer Literacy Training Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Adult Basic Education
Economic Security for All offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Greenbridge Learning Center
Provides a full range of career search assistance and vocational training for low-income residents in higher-poverty zip codes.
Provides a full range of career search assistance and vocational training for low-income residents in higher-poverty zip codes, designed to reduce poverty and support residents as they embark on their careers in pursuit of equity, dignity, and self-sufficiency. Also includes a randomized Guaranteed Basic Income pilot program, focused on domestic violence survivors.
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Job Search Resource Centers
CareerWork$ Ready offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Firwood Circle Office
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
Provides a 3-week online job readiness course, combined with one-on-one job placement assistance. Program covers job readiness skills, 30-second commercials, revamping resumes, networking, interviewing, communication skills, online applications, Microsoft Office skills, soft skills and more.
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Internet Courses
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Job Websites
Employment Services offered by TRAC Associates in Tacoma
Offers job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services. Special programs available for low-income adults, people with disabilities, veterans, refugees or DSHS clients.
Matches employers to job seekers by providing employment services.
Services include job readiness workshops, job skills trainings, job placement services and job retention services.
Offers these services through direct referral and coordination of city, county, state and federal programs.
Also offers employer services, including screening of potential applicants, supervisory training and outplacement services.
Programs include the following employment services.
Not all services offered at all locations:
Community Jobs Initiative (CJI)
Offers paid (minimum wage) internships to job seekers looking to build skills for employment.
Participants must currently receive TANF cash assistance of DSHS - Community Services Office.
This program is implemented through extensive partnerships among state agencies (including DSHS, Employment Security, and the Board of Community and Technical Colleges).
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Placement Services (DVR).
Provides vocational assessment, internship development, and monitoring and job placement services for adults with disabilities who are referred by DSHS - DVR counselors.
Limited English Pathway Placement Services
Offers job readiness workshops, job placement services, skills trainings, and job retention and county wage progression services as well as English language class referrals for King and Snohomish adults with limited English.
Participants must be at least 18 years old and either a refugee with documentation or currently receive TANF cash assistance from DSHS - Community Services Offices.
This is a program of DSHS and the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (ORIA).
Veterans Administration Placement Services Employment and training assessment, job placement and job retention services for service connected disabled veterans referred by the Veterans Administration.
Contact Harriet Klein (206) 443-9999 for more information.
Workers Compensation Services Provides vocational assessment, vocational plan development, and monitoring of vocational training programs for injured workers referred by Washington State Labor and Industries Department, including the Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult Services/Dislocated Worker Services.
Provides job readiness workshops, job placement services, vocational training, and job retention services for adults.
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Business Consulting Services
On the Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Veteran Employment Programs
Prejob Guidance
Independent Living Skills Training offered by Disability Empowerment Center in East King County
Provides skills training to help people with disabilities live independently in the community. Services may include household management, attendant care management, using assistive technology and finding and retaining housing & employment.
Provides skills training to empower people to live independently in the community.
Services may include:
- Information and referral
- Independent living skills training
- Peer support
- Finding and retaining housing
- How to apply for Social Security, DSHS or WA Apple Health (Medicaid)/Medicare
- Assistance with employment including help creating a resume, job search assistance and job preparation services.
All work is focused around the individual consumer's personal goals.
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Welfare Rights Assistance
Prevocational Training
Assistive Technology Information
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Peer Support Services offered at Peer Seattle
Provides peer coaching, support groups, employment support, housing support, and resource connections.
Offers multiple support, education, and socialization groups.
Peer coaches empower people to achieve a solid recovery foundation and achieve life goals. Peer coaches support individuals in recovery from:
- Addiction Issues (chemical/behavioral)
- Mental Health Challenges (short/long term diagnosis, grief & loss)
- Chronic Illness (HIV/Hep C – Newly Dealing/Newly Diagnosed)
Peer coaches are individually matched with people seeking support in their recovery. The matched pair meets for one hour per week for 26 weeks.
Coaches are individuals in recovery who have reached long-term stability.
Peer Employment Connections
Offers weekly peer support groups that support participants to address fears and barriers about returning to work or work through obstacles they are encountering in their job.
Offers vocational assessments, job search tools, resume building, interview preparation, coaching, benefits planning, employment-related clothing and transportation support, and ongoing support for job retention.
Resource Connections
Offers individualized support to identify and access a range of community resources such as housing or medical care.
Participants meet one-to-one with a peer to help make the linkages to essential supports.
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Housing Search Assistance
Peer Counseling
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Employment/Retirement Related Support Groups
General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
Life Coaching
Peer Mental Health Support Services
Prejob Guidance
Families/Friends of Individuals With a Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Financial Coaching offered at PIM Savvy in Bellevue
Provides free, customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs. Call or visit website for an appointment.
Provides one-on-one financial coaching and mentoring. Services include customized financial guidance on budgeting, credit management, banking, financial goal setting, resume writing, job searching, and assistance applying for jobs.
Services are available in person or virtual.
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Prejob Guidance
Credit Counseling
Personal Financial Counseling
Youth Engagement Programming Safio offered at Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Offers an engagement program that focuses on preparing participants with essential life and employment skills while connecting with peers who share similar lived experiences.
Youth Engagement Programming that is committed to empowering young people with disabilities, particularly those from immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC communities-through inclusive,
culturally responsive programming. The HOPE and Kickstart Program builds on this foundation by offering a year-round, comprehensive support system for youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (DD/ID).
The HOPE and Kickstart Programming is designed to foster self-determination, independence, and future planning through a blend of mentorship, peer engagement, and experiential learning. Participants gain essential life and employment skills while connecting with peers who share similar lived experiences.
Each section topic includes hands-on activities, guest speakers, role-play games, individual assignments, interactive group activities and field trips.
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Prejob Guidance
Summer Youth Employment Programs
Downtown Seattle Learning Center offered by WorkSource at Downtown Seattle Affiliate
Offers ESL, Adult Basic Education (ABE), GED and the External Diploma Program (EDP). Teaches computer familiarity, office basics, work readiness skills and other workshops. Services include career and skills assessment.
Offers services and workshops for job seekers.
Services for all job seekers:
- Job postings, a job bank with computers, resume assistance, phones and fax machine, open computer lab
- Resume, cover letter, interview skills and technology workshops
- Job fairs, hiring events, employer panels and industry forums
- Full service Learning Center operated by Renton Technical College offering ESL, Adult Basic Education, GED and the High School 21+ diploma program.
Employment workshops include the following classes:
- Computer Assisted Job Search: Provides tools and assistance to conduct an effective job search. This includes setting up an email account, learning where to apply online, completing an online application, converting a resume to text only, posting a resume online and learning about career exploration tools. Basic computer skills are required.
- Beginning Internet: Teaches how to use the Internet for job search purposes. No computer experience necessary, however Keyboarding and Mouse class highly encouraged as a prerequisite.
- Beginning PC Skills: Computer tutorial to help gain speed and confidence on a computer. Will teach how to manipulate a computer and create a document, as well as how to improve typing speed. All levels are welcome.
- Mock Interview: Teaches valuable interviewing tips and provides the opportunity to practice frequently in a supportive and realistic environment.
- Resume Critique: Provides resume critique and assistance from an employment specialist. Must have an electronic version of your resume, either on a flash drive or within/attached to an email. Must have two job descriptions of jobs you wish to apply to. Limit 8 people per workshop.
- Resume & Cover Letters: Teaches how to write a compelling cover letter and resume. Basic computer skills and/or typing experience preferred.
- Women's Worth & Rights in the Workplace: Provides tips and tools for effectively evaluating your worth and negotiation power. Will also cover local, state and federal labor standards and what to do when your rights at work are violated.
- Interview Skills: Practice responding to typical interview questions and begin the necessary preparation to ace a job interview.
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Adult Basic Education
Job Banks
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Career Counseling
Adult High School Diploma Programs
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Vocational Assessment
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Job Fairs
English as a Second Language
Prejob Guidance
Information Referral and Case Management offered by Horn of Africa Services at Rainier
Helps East African refugees and immigrants access social services through multi-lingual and culturally appropriate information, advocacy and referrals to local resources.
Helps East African refugees access social services through multi-lingual and culturally appropriate information, advocacy and referrals to local resources. Provides individualized case management to clients seeking the most necessary of services.
Services provided include:
- Housing: Assistance with housing applications and shelter referrals including Section 8 & low-income housing applications
- Immigration services: Green Card applications and renewals, travel document applications & citizenship paperwork
- Utilities: Assistance with utility discount application
- Employment: Resume building and employment searches
- Assistance with DSHS benefits and WA Health Plan Finder applications
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Specialized Information and Referral
Housing Search Assistance
Immigrant Mutual Assistance Associations
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Case/Care Management
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Eastside Employment Program offered at Suburban King County YWCA's Family Village in Redmond
Provides job search and job training support services to eligible Basic Food (food stamp) recipients.
Provides job search and job training support services to eligible Basic Food (food stamp) recipients.
Assistance includes:
- Job placement
- Vocational training
- College and career planning
- Job readiness training
- Interview assistance
- Clothing assistance
- Connections to regional employers
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Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Workfirst Programs offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Greenbridge Learning Center
Offers both paid and unpaid on-the-job work experience internships for parents making the transition from welfare/TANF dependency to self-sufficiency.
Offers both paid and unpaid on-the-job work experience internships for parents making the transition from welfare/TANF dependency to self-sufficiency. Internships provide a supportive work environment to build job skills, employment references and work history. Includes pre-employment job readiness training, educational support, career navigation assistance and unsubsidized job placement assistance.
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Occupation Specific Job Training
Temporary Employment
Prejob Guidance
Job Retraining
Job Search/Placement
Section 8 Employment offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's Opportunity Place
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents; includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
Offers one-on-one employment assistance for King County public housing and Section 8 residents, designed to reduce barriers between public housing residents and their neighbors in the surrounding community. Includes job training and technology instruction, GED, ESL, and ABE assistance, and peer-supported services.
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English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Prejob Guidance
Computer Literacy Training Programs