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Register for Pre-Apprenticeship for Sept-Oct 2021
Where opportunity meets potential
Removing employment barriers with strategic partnerships
- Our work through the years has shown a few core barriers that affect employment success and economic growth. The first one is the lack of employable skills and the right jobs for those with skills. Even with the large pool of employers and staffing agencies, most of the candidates who came through our doors had no idea or means on how to go about getting employed.
- Secondly, every employer understands the importance of retention, and where they lose millions of dollars every year when they lose newly hired or skilled candidates.
- The core barriers to employment 1. Lack of vetted candidates and with employable skills. 2. Health problems. 3. Transportation
- Countering the first two barriers. SWD, has built a core partnership with Miscellaneous Staffing Agency, a WMBE, and DBE certified staffing company to provide a professional and fully vetted candidate pool for the Kansas City employers. Together, we are able to service our clients fully, vet, and advice on documents and skills they need to have in order to be employed, as well as match them with the right employers.
- SWD's second core partnership is with Hope Family Care Center, and they provide SWD's economically challenged employed candidates with free medical primary care access for the first 90 days or they can continue to avail services per their challenges.
- SWD is also part of WORC ( Kansas City Chamber of Commerce) and offers Health Services to our mission people.
- SWD is currently operating and has had successful initiatives in the core areas referenced. Our ability to attract and maintain collaborative business and civic partners throughout the Kansas City community predicts and invites new growth opportunities that will combat the economic and social disaster of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure, healthy, long term growth of our city’s businesses and the wider community
Barriers to Success
Statement of Public Good
Transform and Rebuild an economically empowered individuals and society
SWD initiative aims to transform justice-involved individuals, discouraged and entry-level to mid-skilled workers through their program initiatives. SWD has strategically planned separate components to their program and all year-long employment service, to aid residents with invaluable hard- skills training, social survival softs skills, to create an understanding of the self, environment, and employment dynamics.
As we move through the economic crisis brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. SWD's workforce agenda is clear, with a trajectory pointed towards effective and lasting support for the unemployed, unskilled workers from Missouri's East of Troost and Kansas City's metropolitan areas.
Productivity
Our primary objective is to prepare each participant for a productive full-time employment and financial stability. This program will assist the participants as they build their lives as well as their communities. As high unemployment levels plague communities across Kansas City, Missouri, public investment in workforce development, training, and employment is one of the most effective ways to generate improvements in social and economic well-being.
Our Community Partners
120 Employers
Our Employers 120 + Allied Trade Unions
Support our Mission
$20.00
Help us by supporting our Social Survival Skill classes. These are soft-skill classes we provide to help returned citizens navigate the cesspool of corporate jobs, workforce trends, and social barriers. We provide week-long in-depth seminars, trying to help our mission people break their traditional and nontraditional barriers.
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