Serve up to 300 participants each year; 83% placed in jobs or training in 2007-2008.
Maintain an 89% retention rate for students placed in training.
Show that over 90% of participants report increases in confidence and self-esteem resulting in reliable and productive employees.
Serve Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, and Upper Bucks counties.
Provide career development and job placement services to more than 4,000 single parents, displaced homemakers, and workers in transition in Pennsylvania each year.
Operate 23 centers, serving 65 counties, in 112 locations.
Place over 80 percent of program participants in training and/or employment.
Provide services at a cost of $1,000 per participant.
Save Pennsylvania taxpayers $2.9 million in state-awarded payments such as cash assistance, foodstamps, and housing assistance.
Offer programming to individuals from high school through retirement age.
"I was at a point in my life where I needed to sort out my life and make a change.
This program showed me how to proceed."
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