In the Chester County OIC news this week, you will find information on job fair registration, citizenship classes, SOAR program information, C.N.A training classes!, Work Enclave!, CareerLink Services & events, job openings, news and information for ESL & GED students, virtual conversation groups (evening and daytime), clothing for employment needs, mental health resources, and a human services hotline (2-1-1).
WORKSHOPS & LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Hire One Student Job Fair at Penn State Great Valley (Engineering & Manufacturing Students) – 9AM-1PM, FREE The Deadline to register is today at 6pm!
As Black History Month comes to a close, we continue to celebrate the rich historical contributions that are the underpinnings of America. One valiant contributor was the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
An afternoon with a King — Recently in a symposium featuring his daughter, Dr. Bernice King, she echoed her father’s passion for peace, for equity and most of all for love. Her recent children’s book – It Starts with Me – is based on a character who shows people how to open their hearts and minds by allowing love to drive their words, actions, and thoughts, believing through love, we can create a world where everyone feels like they belong.
Are you ready for a new exciting career in the healthcare industry.
Sign up for the CCOIC Pre LPN / C.N.A. Program.
Cohort 1
Start date: 2/14/2022
Deadline to apply: 1/27/2022
Cohort 2
Start date: 5/23/2022
Deadline to apply: 5/5/2022
Cohort 3
Start date: 9/19/2022 Deadline to apply: 9/2/2022
For details, registration or information regarding eligibility and funding, contact Izabella at 484-798-0122 or via e-mail: izabellad@cc-oic.org or Tara at 484-798-0730.
Aardvark Pest Control (Aston, PA) Aardvark provides pest control services for Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties! To learn more about the variety of treatments they provide or their excellent customer reviews, visit: https://getaardvark.com/
Trellis for Tomorrow is a near two decade-old organization that provides experiential programs in organic gardening, environmental stewardship, and food security that teach practical and behavioral life skills for youth and adults. Trellis for Tomorrow aspires to create compassion and resilience in people while teaching them how to build sustainable communities. By 2024, Trellis aims to be the regional leader for empowering youth while addressing food insecurity.
Sponsored by 2nd Century Alliance, Chester County OIC is offering a Work Enclave Program: A Beautification Initiative for 19320. The Enclave is a 5-week paid ambassador program for residents in the 19320 to participate in community clean up while learning work readiness skills. Participants will go through a competitive interviewing process.
Those selected will work earn $15.00 per hour for 5 weeks. At the end of the 5-weeks, those who are work ready will move forward as candidates for local jobs with great pay and benefits. To learn more about the Work Enclave, text “19320” to 484-378-9033.
The Alliance for Health Equity (AHE) will award a two-year grant in the amount of $225,000 to the Chester County OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center) for the Homelessness and Unemployment in Coatesville Collective.
The collective aims to help people live healthy and well by increasing employment, living wages, and housing stability for 18- to 24-year-old adults of color living in Coatesville.
The AHE began a three-phase process to implement a Collective Impact model for the Homelessness and Unemployment in Coatesville Collective. Collective Impact is a disciplined, cross-sector approach to solving complex social and environmental issues on a large scale.
Dear Friends, The past year has been challenging for everyone, but thanks to you, CCOIC was able to help our community members in need. You enabled us to keep offering adult education classes like English as a Second Language (ESL) and GED classes to help adults obtain their high school equivalency diplomas. Your support funded nursing programs that helped hard working women and men become health care providers–enabling them to have a career and earn a living wage–while also helping to fill essential health care positions that make our community safer and stronger. Through virtual, in-person, and sometimes a hybrid of both, during the past year, you made a difference to thousands of children, men, women, and families in our community. You came through when it mattered and you made a difference!
We are grateful for your support and wish you the happiest of holidays and many blessings for the New Year. With gratitude, Joyce Chester, CEO/President
Help us fill our tree and an angel will get its wings! For every donation made, we will add an angel ornament to the CCOIC tree with your name on a tag. Donations may be made online at www.ccoic.org/donate or checks may be mailed to CCOIC at 22 N. 5th Avenue, Coatesville, PA 19320.
Chester County Opportunities Industrialization Center is a non-profit community- based organization that has been meeting the needs of the economically disadvantaged individuals throughout the community.
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