Provides direct assistance through classes and/or one-on-one. Assistance includes, but is not limited to: resume preparation, mock interviews, job search assistance, completion of on-line applications, job readiness techniques, one-on-one mentoring to assist clients in obtaining gainful employment.

Focuses on providing guidance in the areas of vocational training, certification and/or license, in the field of Real Estate, Paralegal, Forklift, and OSHA Certifications to help enhance and build credentials for employment.

Provides services and programming for individuals involved in the justice system.
* Reentry employment assistance including employment preparedness, resume writing, financial literacy, education/skill assessments, computer lab access, and employment placement.
* Registered pre-apprenticeship program that provides career and technical education, hands-on learning, and an employment-focused curriculum with job readiness skills.
* Workforce development program for individuals with a criminal record and mental health diagnosis and currently receiving case management services at SAM, Inc.
*Assistance with transportation and IDs.

Assists people with a criminal background in starting their own business. Provides entrepreneurship education through in-person and online courses.

Provides one on one peer mentoring, job placement, ID/licensure, and birth certificate.

Provides one on one peer mentoring, job placement, ID/licensure, and birth certificate.

Provides a reentry organization support and meetings to advocate and coordinate services for ex-offenders (barriers to employment for returning citizens, resume and job application assistance).

Meetings are held at:
Careelink
100 North Cameron Street
, Harrisburg, PA 17104.

Works to reduce the rate of recidivism among people returning home from prison by providing immediate paid employment, skills, training, and ongoing career support.

Offers four-week training program in the culinary field. Upon successful completion of the training, students will be placed and hired within the UPMC Network as prep cooks.

Provides human and social services relating to an individuals’ basic needs and addressing the barriers to succeeding upon reentering the community following their release from jail.

Offers assessment, job coaching, job placement, and employment-related transpiration to individuals facing barriers to work force entry or re-entry. Also connects clients to wraparound services for basic needs, food, housing, healthcare, and more.

Offers a comprehensive entrepreneurship program where returning citizens learn "Business 101" and how to transfer their "street skills" into the business world in order to open small businesses. Provides step by step instruction concerning how to start a business in Pennsylvania, including how to write a business plan, file the appropriate paperwork, and obtain a business privilege license.

Offers programs that address barriers of youth and young adults who are or have been involved in the legal system or are participating in activities that put them at risk for entering the legal system.

Helps TANF recipients and ex-offenders find employment or advance in their current jobs. Offers work readiness, life skills training, literacy tutoring, community work experience, case management, counseling, and job placement.

Employment/Workforce Development program.
Services include:
* Career/employment planning assistance and guidance
* Employment placement service
* Wrap-around support services in support of workforce development
* Career tracking and indefinite access to support
* Job-finding assistance for all underserved populations (ex. Re-entry, Immigrant/Refugee, Disability, Seniors)
* Provides all job-required clothing and transportion
* Career and personality development support
* Child care referrals
* Skills training referrals

Provides intensive paid job training, paid transitional employment, and career development support for people who are often excluded from the workforce.

The training and experience are in the environmental sector - planting trees, building trails, caring for green infrastructure, and other related projects.

Southwestern Pennsylvania Re-entry Coalition was created by Mon Valley Initiative to coordinate resources for individuals whose criminal record creates barriers to self-sufficiency, through collaboration among agencies in Southwestern Pennsylvania.



SPARC brings representatives from these participating organizations together to find the best way to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with the services and resources they need to successfully re-enter society and the workforce.


SPARC currently works to:


• Identify potential career paths for people re-entering the workforce (excluding those from which individuals with criminal backgrounds are banned by law)

• Increase the number of employers willing to hire formerly incarcerated individuals through education about incentive programs

• Address policy issues through information and advocacy

• Increase connectivity across three levels of the justice system (county, state, federal)

Informs unemployed and under-employed individuals about job opportunities and how to become prepared for them.

Helps participants to identify realistic career goals and develop strategies to overcome obstacles.

Provides both group-oriented and one-on-one financial coaching.

Informs unemployed and under-employed individuals about job opportunities and how to become prepared for them.

Helps participants to identify realistic career goals and develop strategies to overcome obstacles.

Provides both group-oriented and one-on-one financial coaching.

Southwestern Pennsylvania Re-entry Coalition was created by Mon Valley Initiative to coordinate resources for individuals whose criminal record creates barriers to self-sufficiency, through collaboration among agencies in Southwestern Pennsylvania.



SPARC brings representatives from these participating organizations together to find the best way to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with the services and resources they need to successfully re-enter society and the workforce.


SPARC currently works to:


• Identify potential career paths for people re-entering the workforce (excluding those from which individuals with criminal backgrounds are banned by law)

• Increase the number of employers willing to hire formerly incarcerated individuals through education about incentive programs

• Address policy issues through information and advocacy

• Increase connectivity across three levels of the justice system (county, state, federal)

Offers paid apprenticeships that gives justice-impacted young people the opportunity to develop marketable job skills and reconnect with their community through mural making, carpentry, and other creative projects. Curriculum includes job readiness and life skills training, professional development, and mentorship. Participants develop skills in professional communications, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, digital etiquette, résumé-building, and interview preparation.

Provides reentrants with traffic control training, state and federal certifications, wages, and benefits. Offers additional services through partnerships for housing, substance use disorder counseling, and community involvement.

Takes clients who have self-identified with having a criminal background through a 4 step career readiness and job search process with hopes of getting that client skills training and landing a job where they can make a living wage and progress in their career. The process consists of the following employment services:
- Landing a Job with a Criminal Background Seminar/Workshop

- Resume Preparation Workshop

- Application and Interviewing Workshop

- Foundation Skills/TABE assessment/Career Interest Profile

- Individual Employment and Training Planning

- National Career Readiness preparation and certification in work
based Math, Reading, and Locating information

- Soft Skills training

- Occupational Skills Training specifically addressing Lancaster
County's in demand occupations (if needed). Training is offered through Stevens College, LCCTC, etc. and include but are not limited to: Intro to Welding/Blueprint, MetalCasting, Forklift/Certified Logistics Associate, Intro to Manufacturing, Construction 101, Intro to Office Procedures, Metrix Online
Learning in over 10,000 courses (self-paced)

- HSE preparation and course work (if needed)

- Introductory Computer Skills (if needed)

- Individual Career Coaching/Job Development

- Employer Outreach and client advocacy

The PA CareerLink of Fayette County offers various services including:

• Resume Workshops
• Credit Workshops
• Interviewing Workshops
• Funds for Trainings
• On The Job Trainings
• OVR Services
• Veteran Services
• Adult Education Classes
• Youth Program
• Job search
• Courtesy UC direct phone line

Provides transitional employment with an electronics waste recycling company to people returning from prison. Offers a supportive environment for learning marketable job skills and a network of individuals who work together toward self- and community improvement. After 6 to 9 months, assists participants with preparing applications for jobs in industries for which they are eligible. Works with employers willing to hire job-ready, returning citizens for full-time, gainful employment.

Providing career services, placement, and reentry services. After enrollment program details, including participant responsibilities, are reviewed as well as any barriers the participant has that need to be addressed such as securing identification (photo ID, driver's license, birth certificate, social security card., etc.). While the participant is still incarcerated (pre-release), job readiness services are provided along with career exploration and discussions of education and occupational skills training opportunities. Post-release we continue to coordinate education, training, and employment activities while also encouraging participants in their continuation with any, court ordered or voluntary, mental health services and/or drug and alcohol treatment. We also continue to provide supportive services such as bus passes, work clothing, etc. From the date of initial enrollment, we are in contact with participants for about two or more years.

Provides services that include:

• Job Readiness (resume writing,
  Interviewing skills, etc.)


• GED Prep and Testing


• Job Training in High Priority
  Occupations(EX: HVAC, Electrical, CNA, Plumbing,
  Machine Operator, etc.)


• Supportive Services such as: Books,
  tools, boots, and uniforms provided for
  work and school, ID/Licenses, etc.

Provides job readiness services (resume writing, interviewing skills, etc.), job training in the labor market, and high priority occupations area of: manufacturing, construction, health care, and transportation. Assists with job placement and retention services.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Provides employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, employment-related transportation and job retraining assistance. Assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human, filing an initial Unemployment Claims, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Supports re-entering citizens upon release from Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Offers paid training in horticulture, landscape maintenance, greenhouse operations, carpentry, and masonry. Training includes job readiness, conflict resolution, health education, and occupational therapy. Also offers social support services. Program graduates receive continued case management support and job placement with partnering employers.

Provides a range of employment and educational services. Offers training programs for certifications, support for dislocated workers, and job retraining assistance. Also assists with applying for benefits through the Department of Human Services, filing an initial Unemployment Claim, and Workers' Compensation Benefits.

Offers access to a resource library that includes: computers with internet access and resume writing software; PA CareerLink registration; resume packets; information on interviewing skills and writing cover and follow-up letters; labor market and training provider information; job listings; information on local agencies, services, and resources; and phone, fax, and copier access for job searching.

Offers job training and placement, workshops, job fairs, training and certifications, resume assistance, and other employment services.

Provides career-connected education and paid work experiences. Engages disconnected young adults and returning citizens in advancing their lives through service.

Offers work release and alternative housing for both male and female offenders in the criminal justice system; provides cognitive behavioral-based program that emphasizes accountability and responsibility of the individual.

Provides re-entry services. Assists with housing, mentoring, education, and employment.

Provides family reunification, housing assistance, mentoring, and workforce development services for individuals returning home from incarceration

Services include:
1)Promote jobs
2)Clean and maintain a safe part of the city
3)Give opportunities to low-income residence
4)Provide Work experience
5)West Philadelphia Skills initiative a.Provide proper skills for the working world
6)Neighborhood Job pipelines a.UCD connects neighborhood jobs to neighborhood residents
7)Business Assistance

Offers a 4-week program to fully reintegrate individuals with criminal records into the economic and social mainstream through job training and employment opportunities, intensive case management, and peer-to-peer supportive services. Provides social-emotional coaching; cognitive behavioral therapy; financial supports for critical job readiness assets like credentialing; work uniforms; or down payments for affordable apartments; and job opportunities with partner employers.

Offers financial assistance for bus passes and photo ID's, job search opportunities, and continued spiritual support to individuals after they have served their time in prison.