Serving Refugee / Immigrant Communities

Program Description:
Through a consortium of seven multi-ethnic and cross-faith service providers in different areas of the city, the NY Work Alliance serves both to refugees seeking initial employment assistance and those working to upgrade their skills and move ahead in their careers. NY Work Alliance provides culturally and linguistically competent services to refugees in a high quality manner, focusing both on the needs of the refugee and of the employer customer. Last year, several thousand refugees from many different countries and ethnic groups received services through the refugee services Consortium. The Program served hundreds of business by meeting their recruitment needs in a diverse range of occupations from hospitality to high-tech to manufacturing and healthcare.

Helping to Achieve Self-Sufficiency

The Alliance also operates programs funded to help individuals who are on public assistance and at risk to reach economic self-sufficiency. Our Employment and Placement Services for Special Populations program targets immigrants and refugees who are currently receiving benefits to provide intervention services to help prepare individuals for employment and career advancement opportunities in private sector businesses.

Pathways to Success

Program Description:
The Pathways to Success program brings together social service agencies that have programmatic expertise in working with special populations and the New York Work Alliance that has a proven successful record of providing pre-employment, job-placement and work retention services to a wide range of populations.

This “double construct” capitalizes on the experience and expertise of each partner to work collaboratively in helping program participants achieve long-term success in the workplace and economic self-sufficiency goals.

The goals of the Pathways to Success Program are:

1) To address the economic self-sufficiency needs of female heads of households who have multiple barriers to employment and are receiving or are eligible to receive TANF assistance.

2) To create a collaborative program model that can be replicated and expanded to effectively bridge psychological and social services and targeted workforce development assistance leading to employment and career advancement opportunities for special need populations.

With start-up funding from Verizon and JP Morgan Chase Foundations, the Alliance has partnered with several social service organizations in implementing the program.

Additional support for the program comes from funding or in-kind contributions from:

Unity Way of Greater New York
Citigroup Foundation
American Express Foundation
IBM
Greenpoint Savings
Ridgewood Saving Bank

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For more information on Alliance programs, and registration and eligibility requirements, contact Shelton Jones.