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Highbridge
Community Life Center provides
Back-To-Work Program services through a
partnership with the New York City Human
Resources Administration and SeedCo/
Non-Profit Assistance Program (NPAC).
What We Do:
Highbridge provides intake, orientation,
and assessment services, pre-employment
services, job development, case
management, and postemployment and
retention services. Highbridge provides
these services in a friendly culturally
sensitive way. The participants in
the program are required to complete 35
hours of job related activity each week.
This is done by working, attending job
training, or the Work Experience Program
(WEP).
Program Goals:
The goal of the contract is to provide
services that will ultimately lead to
participants in the program becoming
self sufficient.
Other goals include
a minimum of:
* 15
new job placements each month or
180 per year.
* 13
clients achieving 30 days of
employment each month or 156 per
year.
* 8
clients achieving 90 days of
employment each month or 96 per
year.
* 4
clients achieving 180 days of
employment each month or 48 per
year.
Who Are Our
Clients/ Participants? Highbridge
has an active client roster of 150
participants and must take any person
referred by HRA. The Highbridge
Back-To-Work program is made up of
individuals applying for public
assistance and individuals receiving
public assistance.
What Are
Participant Qualifications? Our
participants have wide ranging
educational back grounds from less that
high school to master’s degrees.
The participants
have Certifications in:
* Drivers
License/ CDL
* Certified
Nursing Assistant and Medical Assistant
and Medical Billing/Coding
* Security/
8Hr./16Hr./Fire Guard/ NY State License
* Computer
Software and Clerical
*
Maintenance/ Boiler Repair
How Do We Work
with Potential Employers? We
work with employers in a variety of ways
and our job placement services are
completely free to employers:
* We fill job
orders that employers send to us
* We
prescreen clients for jobs
* We contact
potential employers to find out about
their staffing needs
* We provide
replacement services if an employee
doesn’t work out
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