Meet one of ACCESS’ Earn + Learn program participants.
Some people just need a kick start to get on their feet! That’s what we do at Earn + Learn.
Tag Archives: Workforce Development
Two Events Coming Up– March 21st
Earn and Learn’s two training partners (ACCESS and Focus: HOPE) will both be holding events March 21, 2012. ACCESS Spring Job Fair Recruiters from some 45 employers will attend the upcoming ACCESS Spring 2012 Job Fair, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, at the Michigan Works! Dearborn Service Center, 6451 Schaefer […]
Empowering individuals to lead better lives
This posting originally ran as a blog on Focus: HOPE’s web site. It was written by Hachem Ossieran, Program Coordinator. I’ve been working with Earn and Learn since it started in August. This new program connects people with jobs and job training. The participants take four weeks of work readiness training and then become eligible […]
Earn and Learn Officially Launches!
On January 26, 2012, the Earn and Learn program held a small launch event to acknowledge all of the partners that helped make this groundbreaking program a reality. Program graduate Tim Coates spoke to the crowd about how he had made mistakes in his past, but he “was ready for a change and looking for […]
It’s good for your business, and it’s certainly good for the community.
We – at Belle Tire – decided to participate in the Earn and Learn program because of the reimbursement of wages, but once we got involved in the program, we found that there were many other benefits. So far, we have three Earn and Learn employees working at our distribution center. The first person we […]
Earn and Learn program helps chronically jobless
Earn and Learn is an innovative and comprehensive model of workforce development that will help more than a thousand chronically jobless individuals in the Detroit area gain long-term employment Earn and Learn is a two-year statewide initiative, of which $13.2M (about 60% of the total funding) is devoted to the Detroit-area program, which […]
