Employment Training
Employability and Job Training
Eliminating barriers to success for young adults and families through community development, workforce preparation, and life skills training
What we believe:
For people encountering barriers to success in their communities, we believe...
- Transformations happen when individuals, families and communities possess the skills, support and opportunity to become their own agents of change.
- The greatest asset of any economically and socially distressed community lies in the untapped potential of its people.
- Tapping that potential requires higher rates of adult participation in the workforce.
- Hands-on learning and community revitalization projects that provide employability training and job skills development are the best means to prepare adults for the workforce, while also fostering community pride and stewardship among residents.
Living Classrooms’ job skills training and workforce development programs assist disadvantaged youth and young adults to overcome obstacles including lack of education, lack of skills, poor work history, history of substance abuse or criminal behavior, and childcare and transportation barriers. Our programs help youth address these issues and become successful by developing a network of support and resources, teaching youth marketable job skills such as professionalism, communication, and problem-solving, and providing opportunities for academic remediation and continuing education.
