Trauma Informed Care In-Person Training
Traumatic events can have an intense physical, psychological and spiritual impact on the way we live our lives. Oftentimes, clients who are seeking basic needs (such as employment and housing) have a history of trauma under the surface. Case managers like yourselves are increasingly asked to respond to these multifaceted needs, but may feel underprepared to provide appropriate mental health support.
IDHS - SNAP 101: SNAP Basics for New Providers Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, for anyone who works with SNAP Employment and Training programs. If you are new to working with SNAP E&T, this training will help you better understand important policies for SNAP and SNAP E&T programs.
IDHS - Advanced Cultural Competency: Understanding Dominant Culture Virtual Training
Through a combination of reflective exercises, practical strategies, and interactive discussions, attendees will learn to differentiate between bias, discrimination, and oppression while gaining insight into their own experiences in delivering equitable care. The course will also focus on emotion regulation techniques for managing common activating events and encourage participants to make a personal commitment to continued learning and behavior change, fostering a more inclusive and equitable service environment.
IDHS - Fostering Growth Mindsets: Feedback Practices for Work-Based Programs Virtual Training
Participants will learn how to confidently deliver constructive feedback using the Situation, Behavior, Impact (SBI) model, ensuring that feedback is both effective and actionable. Additionally, this course will equip participants with strategies to support job seekers in developing a growth mindset, allowing them to view feedback as an opportunity for learning and improvement. By the end of the training, attendees will have the tools and confidence to guide job seekers toward greater success and personal development.
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Virtual Training
Participants will leave with an understanding of vicarious trauma and the effect it has on employee wellness.
IDHS - Strengths Based Goal Setting Virtual Training
This training will help you apply a coaching approach to set collaborative, meaningful goals with job seekers, prepare for potential setbacks, and utilize new tools throughout the goal-setting process for better outcomes.
Workforce Convo: Post-Election Policy Review
Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.
IDHS - Equip Job Seekers for Success with Workplace Navigation Skills Virtual Training
Upon completing this training, you will be equipped to define and enhance workplace navigation skills, providing tools to help job seekers connect their strengths to career pathways. Guide job seekers in identifying and building essential skills for workplace success.
IDHS - ISETS Interactive Demo: Part 3 Webinar
In this session, you'll learn to navigate ISETS for job retention, including how to enter job placement information, retention services, and monthly reports. You'll also discover where to find further assistance and resources when needed.
Conflict Resolution For Creating And Sustaining Inclusive Workplaces In-Person Training
In this training, participants will establish a common language for expressing emotions and needs, and work on identifying the underlying causes of conflicts.
Recruitment & Enrollment of Job Seekers Virtual Training
Are you struggling with low job seeker enrollment numbers? Are you challenged to find individuals who are the right fit for your program? Through this training, develop a plan to improve your organization’s recruitment process and generate new outreach ideas!
Making The Right Employment Match Virtual Training
Find the right job for job seekers and increase retention rates.
Strengths Based Coaching In-Person Training
Through this interactive training, you will build your coaching values, skills and tools, and explore how to apply them in your work with job seekers.
Retention In Your Program Virtual Training
Find the right job for job seekers and increase retention rates.
Youth Careers Pathways Webinar
This webinar will offer a high-level overview of progressive post-secondary pathways for youth in high demand fields.
Collaborative Strategies for Equitable Outcomes: Implementing CJC’s Anti-Racist Framework Webinar
Join us for a deep dive into CJC’s Anti-Racist Framework, designed to help workforce development professionals integrate racial equity into their programs, policies, and partnerships. This webinar will provide practical tools for fostering a stronger commitment to racial equity, enhancing communication on race, and implementing equitable practices in service delivery.
Motivational Interviewing Virtual Training
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based practice that helps clients explore their goals, identify blocks, and ultimately take action. Through this training, learn the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing and practice this approach with your peers.
Brews & Ballads: Fall Fundraiser 2024
Join CJC for our annual fundraising event. It is a great opportunity to network with other workforce development professionals and raise money for the advocacy work CJC contributes to.
IDHS - Introduction to Workforce Development Systems Webinar
Are you new to the workforce development field? Do you know how to navigate the system, program models, funding streams? Through this training, demystify what the workforce development system actually is: who’s involved, how it operates, the program models used, how it’s funded and what its relationship with other social services looks like.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
Workforce Convos: Building an Equitable Chicago
Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match Virtual Training
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
Promoting Policy Alignment to Combat Systemic Racism
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) is hosting a Community of Practice on May 22, 2024, featuring conversations on how we can combat system racism from a through policy. If you want to be in a community with like-minded workforce and policy professionals, this community of practice is for you!
We will engage in a series of discussions and workshops aimed at developing strategies and methods to advocate for anti-racist policies that promote equity and inclusion. Participants will have the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges and difficulties they face in this critical work. Sharing best practices will empower us all to navigate these challenges more effectively.
This space will encourage accountability and facilitate the exchange of valuable lessons and experiences as we collectively commit to working together in new and transformative ways. Collaboration is the cornerstone of lasting change.
We aim to inform workforce actors about innovative and inclusive approaches to policy design and implementation. This conversation will encourage workforce professionals to reimagine their approaches to workforce policy. We seek to create a future where policies are equitable and just.
Our discussions will shed light on the ways in which practitioners may inadvertently advance harmful, racist policies. Through deconstruction, we can dismantle these barriers to progress.
Cost: Free
Date: May 22, 2024
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Join us for an optional networking hour from 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Chicago Jobs Council Office
29 E. Madison, Suite 1700-C
Chicago, IL 60602
IDHS - Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Informed Agency Strategies Virtual Training
Agencies that have implemented a trauma-informed approach have realized improvements in productivity and organizational outcomes. Trauma-informed care recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role trauma may play in an individual's life-including service staff. Becoming a trauma-informed agency means making a commitment to changing the practices, policies, and culture of an entire organization. On an organizational level, trauma-informed care changes organizational culture to emphasize respecting and appropriately responding to the effects of trauma at all levels.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
IDHS - Navigating Labor Market Information for SNAP E&T Programs Webinar
Learn how to identify useful labor market information online, filter data to better understand labor market trends, and teach job seekers how they can use labor market information themselves in this webinar.
CCWP’s Strengths Based Coaching Virtual Training
Coaching is a collaborative way of working with job seekers which builds on their strengths and helps them develop actionable goals. Through this training, you will build your coaching values, skills and tools, and learn how to apply them in your work with job seekers.
Centering Lived Experiences in Equity Policy Development
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) is hosting a Community of Practice on March 20, 2024, featuring conversations on how to center the lived experiences of job seekers in equitable workforce policies. If you want to be in a community with like-minded workforce and policy professionals, this community of practice is for you!
We will engage in a series of discussions and workshops aimed at developing strategies and methods to advocate for anti-racist policies that promote equity and inclusion. Participants will have the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges and difficulties they face in this critical work. Sharing best practices will empower us all to navigate these challenges more effectively.
This space will encourage accountability and facilitate the exchange of valuable lessons and experiences as we collectively commit to working together in new and transformative ways. Collaboration is the cornerstone of lasting change.
We aim to inform workforce actors about innovative and inclusive approaches to policy design and implementation. This conversation will encourage workforce professionals to reimagine their approaches to workforce policy. We seek to create a future where policies are equitable and just.
Our discussions will shed light on the ways in which practitioners may inadvertently advance harmful, racist policies. Through deconstruction, we can dismantle these barriers to progress.
Cost: Free
Date: March 20, 2024
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Join us for an optional networking hour from 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Chicago Jobs Council Office
29 E. Madison, Suite 1700-C
Chicago, IL 60602
CCWP’s Strengths Based Coaching Virtual Training
Coaching is a collaborative way of working with job seekers which builds on their strengths and helps them develop actionable goals. Through this training, you will build your coaching values, skills and tools, and learn how to apply them in your work with job seekers.
IDHS - Preparing & Assessing For Career Readiness Virtual Training
Employment assessments work to help jobseekers identify employment and career goals. Through this training, learn how to better support job seekers experiencing challenges identifying, matching, and developing employment and/or career goals. Staff will be introduced to a variety of assessments that can help their job seekers set and achieve their own career readiness goals.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
IDHS- ISETS (Illinois SNAP Employment Training System) Webinar - Part 2 of 2
This is part two of a two part series. This training is exclusively for SNAP Employment & Training providers in Illinois.
Join us for an interactive training in the ISETS system. All participants will receive a log-in to the ISETS Test System and will have the opportunity to practice data entry and maintenance during the training. Registration will close end of day Monday, January 22, 2024 to allow time to set participants up in the ISETS Test System.
Addressing Historical & Intergenerational Disparities for People of Color
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) is hosting a Community of Practice on January 24th, 2024, featuring conversations on how to develop and advocate for anti-racist policy design and implementation. If you want to be in a community with like-minded workforce and policy professionals, this community of practice is for you!
We will engage in a series of discussions and workshops aimed at developing strategies and methods to advocate for anti-racist policies that promote equity and inclusion. Participants will have the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges and difficulties they face in this critical work. Sharing best practices will empower us all to navigate these challenges more effectively.
This space will encourage accountability and facilitate the exchange of valuable lessons and experiences as we collectively commit to working together in new and transformative ways. Collaboration is the cornerstone of lasting change.
We aim to inform workforce actors about innovative and inclusive approaches to policy design and implementation. This conversation will encourage workforce professionals to reimagine their approaches to workforce policy. We seek to create a future where policies are equitable and just.
Our discussions will shed light on the ways in which practitioners may inadvertently advance harmful, racist policies. Through deconstruction, we can dismantle these barriers to progress.
Cost: Free
Date: January 24, 2024
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Join us for an optional networking hour from 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Chicago Jobs Council Office
29 E. Madison, Suite 1700-C
Chicago, IL 60602
CCWP’s Introduction To Workforce Development Systems Webinar
Are you new to the workforce development field? Do you know how to navigate the system, program models, funding streams? Through this training, demystify what the workforce development system actually is: who’s involved, how it operates, the program models used, how it’s funded and what its relationship with other social services looks like.
IDHS- ISETS (Illinois SNAP Employment Training System) Webinar - Part 1 of 2
This is part one of a two part series. Register for part two on either January 24, 2024 or January 25, 2024 to complete the series.
Join us for an interactive training in the ISETS system. All participants will receive a log-in to the ISETS Test System and will have the opportunity to practice data entry and maintenance during the training. Registration will close end of day Tuesday, January 9, 2024 to allow time to set participants up in the ISETS Test System.
Youth Careers Pathways Webinar
This 1.5 hour webinar will introduce you to Apprenticeships, Job Training programs, Service Year programs, Military pathways and affordable college options.
Making The Right Employment Match In-Person Training
While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.