SER Newsletter August 2018
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SER Rhode Island – Helping Rhode Islanders get back to work
OUR MISSION
SER Rhode Island provides literacy and job training services for economically disadvantaged Rhode Islanders so that they may improve their quality of life.
OUR PROGRAMS
Specialized Work Services
We help unemployed parents return to work through job search/coaching, transitional job placement, on-the-job training and a variety of other services and supports that help the parents gain new skills and work experience and ultimately, competitive employment. [Funded with a grant from the RI Department of Human Services]
Youth Work Experience
This summer program exposes youth to the world of work through classroom and hands-on work experience at local businesses. [Funded through the RI Department of Labor and Training, and the RI Department of Human Services]
Ex-Offender/Re-Entry Services
Working closely with probation and parole, this program assists those recently released from prison in finding and retaining employment. [Funded through SER Jobs for Progress, Inc.]
Florida’s Leading Providers of Workforce Development Services
SER-Jobs for Progress is one of Florida’s leading providers of workforce development services.
Founded in 1978 in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, the organization’s area of service has stretched from Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Everglades.
The organization primarily offers outsourcing services to state and local governments.
Mission Statement
ER-Jobs for Progress is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enabling individuals and families to become self-sufficient through education, workforce development and employment.
Our Programs
Our board and staff strive to provide the best programming responding to the needs of the communities that we serve.
The Center was the first of its kind in southeastern Florida. The center provides a variety of services to anyone in need including some targeted populations. On a typical year, the center helps over 10,000 job seekers look for employment.
North Miami Beach One-Stop Career Center
The Center was the first of its kind in southeastern Florida. The center provides a variety of services to anyone in need including some targeted populations. On a typical year, the center helps over 10,000 job seekers look for employment.
Advanced Technical Centers
ATC is the education division of SER. Located inside SER’s main facility in Miami Springs, the institution educates over 200 students annually.
Senior Community Service Employment Program
The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is a community service and work based training program serving 200 older workers per year.
Housing Programs
For over a quarter century, SER has been helping at-risk Youth to remain in school and graduate. Currently, the program serves Youth in Homestead Senior High.
https://www.serflorida.org/indexpage.htm
Centro CHA – Building Strong and Healthy Latino Communities
Centro CHA is a non-profit Hispanic/Latino human and social service agency formed in 1992 and incorporated in 1999. Since 1992, Centro CHA strives to create a record of service that advances and advocates extensively for the well-being of underrepresented, low-income Hispanic children, youth and families in the City of Long Beach. A recognized leader at the local, county and state levels, Centro CHA is a committed grassroots, community-based nonprofit organization that continuously provides quality, necessary and compassionate services to more than 5,000 families from underserved, impoverished Hispanic neighborhoods.
PARENT SERVICES
Case Managers with Centro CHS help program participants create a goal-oriented service plan to move toward a better life.
CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION
Are you looking to renew your residency status, apply for citizenship, or have any other legal procedure? Centro CHA provides free legal assistance!
VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Volunteer or learn about Centro CHA’s social initiatives motivating the youth and families of Long Beach to engage and improve their communities.
EMPLOYMENT
Accept your past and don’t turn back. Face forward with our workforce development programs and shape your own future.
Learn more about their work here: https://www.centrocha.org/
Centro Latino
Who we are
Welcome to Centro Latino! We are a community based non-profit that works with the Latino and Indigenous Native families. Learn more about our educational programs, Crisis intervention, family outreach services, Arts & Culture programming, or join our advocacy efforts that address the concerns and opportunities for our families.
Our Mission is to cultivate the advancement of the Latino and Indigenous communities by providing social services and educational programming while honoring heritage and culture through the Arts.
Services
Family Services
Advocacy – Provides information, support, and assists individuals and families in accessing community resources that best meet their needs. Advocates on behalf of clients to ensure adequate provisions of services.
- Domestic Violence and Victim of Crime Advocacy- Trained advocate will do crisis intervention and help navigate the legal system. Advocate will work with clients through out the entire process by providing safety planning, resources for housing or emergent needs, Therapy, support groups and continued case management till safety and security has been accomplished.
- Case Management – Provides comprehensive case planning, information, and linkages with other service providers: medical, housing, legal, DSHS…Case management services are designed to assist clients with meeting multiple needs over a longer period of time.
- Sexual Assault Support & Advocacy – Trained Sexual Assault advocates provide victims with immediate crisis intervention services, safety planning, assistance facilitating the paperwork for a protection order, linkages to emergency shelters, referrals to therapy, and a Spanish language victims’ support group. Call for more information.
- Orientation to the basic laws and systems in place within Pierce County and the state of Washington.
Assistance with Forms and Applications
- Applications for benefits (L&I, disability, insurance, DSHS)
- Section 8 and other housing/rental applications
- School Enrollment
Documents
Assistance with Document Translations
- Permission to travel letter with minor children
- Marriage Certficate
- Birth Certificates
- Guardianship Paperwork
- Additional translations as approved
* Notary Public (By appointment only. All clients must provide official proof of identification)
Parenting and Family Support
The Family Support Centers are part of a community effort to build strong neighborhoods and healthy families. The Partnership provides in-home support to parents and caregivers of children by highly trained Family Support Workers in order to create the best environment possible for a child to grow socially, emotionally, and behaviorally.
The Family Support Partnership focuses on strengthening child-parent relationships through the implementation of one of two international programs proven to be successful.
Employment Assistance
Along with an ample variety of job applications available from many companies in the King, Pierce and Thurston counties area, these are the main services offered by the Adult Employment & Training Department:
- Resume Preparation
- Cover letter preparation
- Job interview orientation
- Mock Interviews
- Job listings
- Computer use in job search and resume submission
- ESL Classes
- Computer Lab
Latino Educational Fund
The Latino Educational Fund (LEF) is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to helping Latino achieve their full potential through higher education, career development and financial independence. For over six years, LEF has sought to empower the communities in which it serves. Since our establishment in 2010, we firmly believe that providing tools in the form of jobs, affordable housing, loans, job training, financial literacy and scholarships is the most effective means of empowering people to obtain gainful employment and build a legacy for themselves and for their families.
Heberto M. Sanchez, founded LEF in 2010 to create a much-needed resource to the Latino students and young adults by providing information on college preparedness, career development, financial awareness, entrepreneurship, loans and affordable housing. LEF’s mission is to prepare people with the resources necessary for advance education and financial knowledge to strive for a better life. The overall goal of the organization is to improve the well-being of people through education and financial resources.
LEF services are design to improve access to education, provide job training and increase employability. LEF seeks to achieve this through scholarships, career development, job search assistance, job counseling and job placement, financial literacy courses, entrepreneur courses, loans, and affordable housing. In addition to its financial literacy and entrepreneur courses LEF also helps people build credit through unsecured micro loans. LEF is a SER Jobs for Progress National affiliate organization.
