Resources and Links

Workforce Development

• Employment and Training Services
• Support Services for Job Seekers
• Apprenticeship
• Employer Services
• Workforce Demographics
• Other Helpful Links

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Employment and training services:

• King County Apprenticeship Program
• King County Jobs Initiative
• The King County Work Training Program
  offers education and job training for low-income, academically at-risk youth, primarily high school dropouts and teen parents who live in King County outside the City of Seattle.
• King County Dislocated Workers Program
• Seattle King County Workforce Development Council
• S.T.E.P.: Searching for Training and Employment Programs. An on-line guide for job seekers and employers to hundreds of resources for career planning, job search assistance, job skills training, apprenticeships, and self-employment in King and Snohomish Counties.
• STEP links to other Employment and Training Resources
• Seattle Jobs Initiative
• Employment Security Department, Washington State
• Welfare to Work - U.S. Department of Labor
• Worker Center, AFL-CIO
• Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King Countyl
• WorkSource Washington

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Support services for job seekers:

• Department of Social and Health Services, Washington State
• Community Resources On-Line (Crisis Clinic)
• United Way of King County
• Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
• Help for Working Families
• Child Care Resources
• Metro Transit

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Apprenticeship:

• 2004 Apprenticeship Program Report
  (4202 KB .pdf)

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Services for Employers:

• The Welfare to Work Partnership
  A nonpartisan, nationwide effort designed to encourage and assist private sector businesses with hiring people on public assistance. It was formed in 1997 by the following companies: Burger King, Monsanto, Sprint USA, United Airlines and UPS.
• Hiring Welfare-to-Work Employees: A Step-by-Step Guide for Small Businesses From U.S. Department of Labor
• Workforce Development Council

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Workforce Demographics

• Washington Labor Market Information
• Unemployment Information Research and Statistics
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Workforce Explorer Washington

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Other Helpful Links

• State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
• Urban Enterprise Center
• Washington State Employment Security Department