Towards Employment partners with various organizations and businesses both locally, and nationally to provide training, skill-building, education, and supportive services to Northeast Ohio.
We Bring TE to You
Towards Employment has extensive provider partnerships across the community, often aligning services with organizations doing similar work. We also bring our services to other partner locations. In each partnerships, we leverage each other’s expertise to ensure participants and graduates benefit from as many resources as possible.
Interested in learning more about Towards Employment, or want your team to know more about our services? Contact us today to set up a TE presentation at your location.
TE Partner Offices
In addition to our main office, TE staff have offices in the following places.
Strategic Industry Partners
Partnering to offer sector-based training & certifications.
Towards Employment partners with key actors in the Workforce ecosystem - this strengthens our ability to understand labor market opportunities; it informs our programming and makes connections with employers; all the while providing more comprehensive services for people and businesses which in turn promotes a more aligned and equitable system for everyone. Examples include:
Manufacturing
ACCESS to Manufacturing
Towards Employment partners with MAGNET to offer manufacturing training and certifications.
Healthcare
Towards Employment and University Hospitals partner to offer training sessions to help individuals start their career path in healthcare.
Over a decade of partnering
Training Partners
TE partners with other organizations to offer training, certifications, supportive services, and coaching.
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Financial Opportunity Center®
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Financial Opportunity Centers (FOCs) in the Cleveland area help families stabilize their finances and build assets through financial education, access to benefits and job skills. Evidence has shown that by accessing these services together, participants are more likely to find and retain jobs, grow their net incomes and improve their credit scores.
Besides using Towards Employment for career readiness, credential training, employment opportunities, and legal services, TE is now a Financial Opportunity Center (FOC). FOC is a career and financial coaching service that helps families build smart money habits.
Social Determinants of Work
Towards Employment works with partners to provide individualized access to supportive services and other resources to Cuyahoga residents. Together, we work to address barriers of the social determinants of work.
Social Determinants of Work
Community Referral Partners
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Partners in Systems Change
Employer Resource Network® (ERN®)
An Employer Resource Network® (ERN®) is an employer collaborative that pools resources to provide an on-the-job success coach who helps with work/life issues to all employees.
For member businesses, the success coach works on site to address many of the social determinants of work that can cause stress and derail a worker's performance, as well as provide financial literacy, other essential training, and connect workers.
Generation Work
Towards Employment is a Generation Work partner helping connect and train young adults for great careers.
Generation Work is a partnership launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to help young Americans succeed in the job market. This partnership is designed for ages 18-24 who are enrolled in federal workforce programs and eligible for public benefits.
Northeast Ohio Workforce Coalition
Northeast Ohio Workforce Coalition (NEOWC) is an affiliate of the Ohio Workforce Coalition and shares the vision of a future where Ohioan’s have equitable access to opportunity and the supports they need to take advantage of it; Ohio’s businesses have a skilled workforce advancing in quality jobs; and Ohio’s workforce systems are aligned, transparent, and accountable.
Aspen Institute Northeast Ohio Workforce Coalition
The Ohio Workforce Coalition, with NEOWC as local partner, was selected in a nationally competitive process to facilitate the Aspen Institute Workforce Leadership Academy (WLA) in Cleveland. The Workforce Leadership Academy, with curriculum designed by the Economic Opportunities Program of the Aspen Institute, brings together leaders from across a local workforce ecosystem for a year-long series of retreats, workshops, and action learning projects. The Academy provides a forum for local leaders to work collaboratively to identify local and regional systems-based challenges and create shared solutions for economic opportunity for all. Fellows work with leading practitioners throughout the country as they deepen networks; strengthen systems leadership skills; apply race, equity, and systems change frameworks to their work; and increase understanding of effective strategies and programs.
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