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.
Job Resource Center offered by Seattle Public Library at Central Library
Provides online resources to help Seattle residents find work. Helps them discover interests, explore careers, prepare a resume, find educational opportunities and locate jobs.
Provides online resources to help Seattle residents find work.
Resources help library users:
- Explore occupational interests and match them with career paths
- Investigate thousands of career paths
- Build, save, retrieve and update a professional resume and list of references
- Find educational opportunities
- Find jobs
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
Employment Services offered by TRAC Associates in Tukwila
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.
Workfirst Programs offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
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.
Homeless Employment Project offered by YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed.
Provides job search & job placement assistance for people who are experiencing homelessness or who are unstably housed. Program includes a full range of individualized employment and support services needed to achieve self-sufficiency and stable housing.
High School Career Centers offered at Shoreline Public Schools No. 412
Operates career centers for Shoreline Public School students and the public.
Career Centers are located at the Shorewood and Shorecrest high school libraries and are available to students and the public during school hours.
Staffed by two career specialists, the center offers job placement, scholarship and financial aid information, testing materials, career choice materials, and a variety of other materials to assist in post-secondary career plans.
Facilitate job matching between healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals. Focuses on jobs in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities and long-term acute care hospitals.
Facilitates job matching between healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals.
Allows nursing homes, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, and long-term acute care hospitals to identify specific staffing needs.
Individuals who are licensed and/or trained for the various roles in these facilities can register their availability and willingness to fill shifts.
An algorithm then matches the workers and the facilities in real time to address staffing shortages.
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.
Veterans Program offered by WorkSource at North Seattle One-Stop Center
Helps veterans and their spouses find jobs and gives them priority access to WorkSource services, including assistance with job search skills, career counseling and referrals to training and other resources.
Administers the Jobs for Veteran State Grant program, a nationwide program designed to provide assistance to veterans transitioning from one career to another. Provides counseling, resources, employment connections, community partnership advocacy and virtual tools to assist in meeting the veterans’ preferred transitional career goals.
Gives veterans and their spouses priority access to WorkSource services, including the following:
- Job listings, job referrals and hiring events for private sector, city, state and Federal careers
- Job coaching for resume, application perfecting, strategies for success, wage negotiations and interviewing assistance
- Use of computers, photocopiers and phones onsite
- Skill assessments and referrals to training and other resources
In addition, the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program provides intensive case management and employment readiness services to transitioning service members, veterans and qualifying spouses with significant barriers to employment.
Local Veterans Employment Representatives Conduct outreach to employers to promote the recruitment and hiring of veterans; partner with Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Commerce to implement employer campaigns to hire veterans and inform federal contractors on process and requirements for recruitment of veterans.
Employment & Training Services offered by WorkSource at South Seattle Affiliate
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.
Employment & Training Services offered by WorkSource at Rainier Affiliate
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.
Rise Support Group offered at Lighthouse Northwest
Offers services for women who have experienced domestic violence such as individual assessment and advocacy, counseling, life skill training and coaching, mentoring, book studies, workshops, assistance with education and employment, support groups, children’s programs, parenting training, communication and conflict resolution coaching, peer support, chiropractic care, karate classes, gym membership, and community engagement and activities.
Offers a monthly support group and workshops for women who have experienced abuse or trauma at any point in their lives. Women and children participate in a safe, affirming, and supportive community.
Employment Services offered by Diocese of Olympia's Refugee Resettlement Office Satellite
Provides job counseling and placement for refugees.
Clients are individually prepared and counseled to work effectively in the workforce through English Improvement classes and Job Readiness training.
The Refugee Employment Project services include the following:
- comprehensive job readiness program
- job placement
- retention services
- workplace skills training
- social services
CURB at Communities Uniting Rainier Beach offered by POCAAN
Promotes self-sufficiency in young adults ages 18-30 through direct access to education, employment, readiness, treatment, mental health care and housing options.
Must reside in Southeast Seattle area.
Empowers participants to aspire to the highest quality of life by helping develop life skills, providing support and connecting clients to direct services.
Assists participants and motivates them to become self-sufficient through direct access to education, employment, readiness, treatment, mental health care and housing stability options.
Helps with resume preparation, interviewing skills, job sourcing, job search planning and other job search assistance.
Supports job seekers in successfully pursuing employment that fits their skills, passions and needs. Helps participants to fully understand the hiring process including how to:
- Effectively network
- Convey personal strengths in resume writing
- Develop strong interviewing skills
- Advance technical/online skills and database of resources (i.e. LinkedIn)
These skills are developed through:
- Guest speakers with expertise in a wide variety of vocations
- Group discussion and relationships
- Access to counselors that can provide well-being support during unemployment
First Year and Career Services Center offered at Seattle Central College
Offers career planning resources, including computerized career guidance and college scholarship information.
The First Year and Career Services offer career exploration and advising to Seattle Central students. We can help:
- Explore career opportunities, interests, and academic pathways to get there.
- Provide academic guidance to first year and undecided students on class selection and potential areas of study.
- Develop resume and cover letter writing skills, & prepare for interviews.
- Discuss networking, job search methods, and scholarship resources.
Career Services offered by Lake Washington Institute of Technology's Career Services
Provides job search assistance, including help with resumes, job interview techniques, job posting, and access to Internet resources; some services for general public.
The Career Services office provides career planning and job search assistance to LWTech students and alumni. Whether you are exploring a new career path, trying to decide on the right educational program, looking for a part-time job or internship while you are in school, or graduating and ready to find your dream job, Career Services is here to help. Services include individual support, classroom presentations, workshops, employer events and online resources to LWTech students and graduates.
Employment and Training Services offered at Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Provides vocational ESL classes, job finding and readiness skills, and job counseling for immigrants and refugees. Services meet language and workforce needs of local employers and cultural needs of job seekers.
Offers comprehensive job placement and retention services, including:
- Vocational English As a Second Language (ESL) classes
- 20 hours of job readiness instruction
- Job search assistance
- Short-term skills training opportunities and career counseling
- Case management
- Retention services
Services meet language and workforce needs of local employers and cultural needs of job seekers.
Supported Employment offered at Cares of Washington
Provides free individualized job placement assistance to adults with disabilities. Additional services, such as longer term job coaching, community-based employment assessments and job shadowing may be available.
Provides individualized job placement assistance to adults.
Additional services, such as longer term job coaching, community-based employment assessments and job sampling may be contracted under the fee for service program.
Career Bridge offered at Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
Provides assistance with job readiness, job search, work training and labor market information through workshops, computer resources and case management.
Offers a 5-week program providing assistance with job readiness, job search, work training and labor market information through workshops, computer resources and case management. Program participants may also get assistance with obtaining work-appropriate clothing.
Workshops and case management offer the following services to all students enrolled:
- Mentorship Life Skills & Training
- Earn Certifications (Industrial First Aid/CPR, Flaggers, Food Handler Permit)
- Financial Empowerment
- Resume & Cover Letter Assistance
- Job Connections
- Wrap-Around Services
Job announcements provided are current postings from private industry, city, county and state employers.
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.
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.
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