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  • Aligned Partner Network Member Organizations
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    Worksystems partners with community organizations to leverage each agency’s expertise to move people with multiple challenges into career-track employment through the Aligned Partner Network (APN). THANK YOU to our Aligned Partner Network (APN) of providers who work with us to address poverty across a wide array of vulnerable and underserved populations through access to jobs and careers. APN members align their own resources and services with workforce training and job placement services through WorkSource to help job seekers achieve economic independence. APN Member Organizations: Bridges...// Read more
  • Youth Investments
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    Worksystems coordinates a network of community-based organizations, known as NextGen , that provides career development services to many of our community’s most underserved and vulnerable youth populations. These include youth residents of public housing, youth experiencing housing instability and/or homelessness, youth of color, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQIA, youth in foster care, youth with juvenile just system involvement, and youth in poverty. Partners across our network work together toward the shared goal of helping the populations we serve to enter continued education or career-...// Read more
  • NW Promise
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    NW Promise is a $6 million four-year grant that seeks to train and place historically under-represented populations into Healthcare (HC) and Tech (IT) occupations with a solid career pathway into sustainable, living wage employment. Training resources are focused on the long-term unemployed, under-employed, incumbent workers, people of color, English language learners, people with disabilities, low-income residents, and other populations facing barriers to employment. Increasing workforce diversity in the healthcare field is seen as an important contributor to these goals and has been a key...// Read more
  • Youth Job Seeker Profile, Oregon
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