Career Development
WorkNet
WorkNet provides career development training for hard to place job candidates. These candidates include day laborers, those recently released from prison or jails, those coming out of drug rehabilitation centers or single parents on welfare. Here‘s Life Inner City trains WorkNet trainers from among its various partner ministries. They help the candidate identify the appropriate career field as well as identify and overcome barriers to that career.
They also teach them the U.S. business culture and how to market themselves through developing their resumes, phoning to set up job interviews, and practicing actual job interviews. Mentors assist the job candidate under the supervision of the WorkNet trainer during the 25-60 hour training and after they obtain gainful employment.
- 80% of the job candidates who begin the training complete it.
- 85% find jobs in their career field.
- 66% of the job candidates are promoted within a year.
Hope and a second chance have become a reality for many including Ramon and Julia.
Ramon (pictured on the left) came to H.O.M.E., Inc. (a local inner city ministry) as part of a dysfunctional family. He had a learning disability, poor self image, and poor social skills. WorkNet training wasn’t easy for Ramon and he did not have much hope of completing it. However, during the training, Ramon learned that he did have something to offer! He learned the type of job he was best suited for, how to market himself and job interview skills. Within the next few months, he had received a position as a greeter and intake person within an agency. Ramon gained confidence and progressed in the agency. He is a reliable employee giving back to the community.
Julia came to a half way house for ex-offenders where she received the WorkNet training after being released from prison. Julia spoke at a Here’s Life Inner City banquet about how the program changed her life. She said that she learned how to fill out a job application and created her first resume. While she was speaking, she kept looking over at her mentor who had been with her since the start of her journey. I will never forget the smile on her face when she told us how she was now helping others and that she had been promoted to supervisor! Since completing the training three years ago, Julia has been promoted twice.
Hope changes everything!
To see a video about Julia and WorkNet click here.
Currently we have equipped WorkNet trainers in a three day training who are using WorkNet at:
Lawtey Correctional Institute
St. Johns County Jail
Clay County Jail
Sisters Inc. and Men of Promise transition housing for ex-offenders
St. Augustine Christian Service Center
City Rescue Mission
Ready4Work
Several more WorkNet training locations are starting as a result of the recent WorkNet Trainers Training. Our goal is to have every prison, jail, halfway house, and groups of other hard-to-place job candidates adopted by a church or ministry trained in WorkNet.
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Holistic Hardware
Helps move people in crisis into productive, self-sufficient lives through 10 video sessions and ongoing mentoring from volunteers. At the heart of this program is the acquisition of life skills.
TOOLS THAT BUILD LIVES
Each of the 10 video lessons includes:
- Biblical and real-life role models
- Dramatic sketches
- Effective strategies
- Inspirational testimonies
- A time-tested principle including
- Building self-esteem
- Healthy love for ones self and others
- Faith and inspirational lifestyles
- Discipline
- Responsibility
- Vision
- Planning
- Regulating associations and relationships
- Work habits
- Managing income
Holistic hardware compliments WorkNet in that it develops the character traits needed to hold the job in the desired career field. Holistic hardware is administered through partner ministries who act as facilitators for the video series for groups of 5-25 people.
