A 12 Steps Toward EmploymentTM workshops
are being held in Chester Springs and Oxford to aid Chester County’s
unemployed and underemployed, including recent college students, in
seeking,
obtaining and retaining suitable employment.
Seminars will be held from from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday,
July 28, at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library, 215 Windgate Drive,
Chester Springs (Ludwigs Corner) and repeated at the same time on
Thursday, August 4, at the First Presbyterian Church, 6 Pine Street,
Oxford.
The workshops, first introduced last fall, are part of the Road to Employment initiative established by the Chester County Workforce
Investment Board (WIB) with grant funds received from the Pennsylvania Department
of Labor and Industry.
Casey
Jones of Parkesburg, workshop developer and presenter, said the sessions focus on development of an employment search plan and discusses the
wealth of resources available to Chester County job-seekers in obtaining
employment.
Each workshop participant also
will receive a Job-Seeker Toolkit
that includes a summary of the 12 Steps, a recently-developed Chester County Road to Employment Resource
Guide that lists available services from a wide range of sources, from
employment and education to housing, food and medical care, and a packet of additional
resource materials.
"Some newly unemployed
decide to take the summer off from job-seeking, expecting they will
obtain a job quickly in the fall," Jones noted, saying that "a large
number face major disappointments and lost time when this doesn't occur."
Required registration information for limited available seats at individual
workshops, along with additional job-seeking tools, may be obtained at www.chesco.org/
Additional
information on this initiative is available from Jones at bps461@msn.com
or (610) 707-1494.
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