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Services overview
Audiences
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Transfer of learning
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Services overview

This section focuses on the knowledge and skills employment services staff need to work with clients and community partners.

Audiences

Courses can be used to train new workers or to update the knowledge and skills of experienced workers. Courses also can prepare staff to move from one function to another.

Content can be adapted for participants based in social service agencies, workforce development agencies and community-based organizations.

Customization

Courses that follow can be delivered as described or adjusted to meet the needs of training participants and sponsoring agencies. Customization takes into consideration:
  • experience levels and program backgrounds of trainees
  • training objectives
  • performance gaps training should address
  • whether or not training is mandated
  • agency circumstances and practices related to the topic
Course topics and activities are adjusted to tailor training to the agency and audience.

If your organization has a training need not addressed on this site, The Center can develop a new course or training program.

Transfer of learning

Center training incorporates content and delivery methods that facilitate transfer of learning from the training room to the job. Center staff also can work with agencies on training overviews for supervisors and managers as well as other pre- and post-training activities that promote transfer of learning.

List of courses by title

Orientations, Job Club and Job Search
    Designing and Conducting Effective Orientations
    Effective Job Club Presentations
    Leading Job Search Workshops
    Tapping the Power of Groups
    Learning from Real Life: Involving Former Clients
    Creating an "On-the-Job" Simulation
Welfare-to-Work
    Welfare-to-Work Overview
    Marketing Welfare-to-Work to Clients
    Developing and Monitoring Welfare-to-Work Plans
    Addressing the Needs of Learning-Disabled Clients
Welfare-to-Work Case Management
    Client Motivation
    Job Retention Strategies
    Focusing Interviews on Employability
    Assessment
    Problem-Solving and Conciliation Skills
    Case Management with Employed Clients
    Building Client Life Skills
    Client Support Groups
    Placement Issues for Hard-to-Employ and Special Needs Clients
    Working with Youth
    Working with Refugees
Welfare-to-Work Activities
    Self-Employment and Microenterprise
    On-the-Job Training and Subsidized Employment
    Work Experience
Supportive Services
    Child Care Services
    Creative Transportation Solutions
One-Stops
    Collaboration for Seamless Service
    Team Building and Problem Solving for One-Stops
Job Development
    Introduction to Job Development
    Creating and Marketing Employer Resource Centers
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Links to related training

The Certificate Program in Human Services Case Management offers an intensive training program for employment services staff. For information about training on service integration and casework skills, go to Case Management.

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