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.
After this training, you will be able to:
Define and understand workplace navigation skills
Learn new tools to support job seekers in identifying and strengthening their workplace navigation skills
Help job seekers connect their skill set to career pathways
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time: 12pm-3pm CST
Facilitator: Cleophus Lee
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
Workforce Convo: Best Practices for Workforce Development, Apprenticeships & Employer Engagement
Join the Chicago Jobs Council for a vital Workforce Convo on apprenticeship best practices in workforce development. Learn from Gina Rosen of Opportunity At Work and discover how to effectively engage employers in creating inclusive, skills-based apprenticeship programs that drive equity. This event will explore successful models and provide practical strategies for enhancing workforce development through apprenticeships. Coffee and breakfast provided. Members-only event.
IDHS- 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.
After attending this training, you will be able to:
• Use empathetic counseling techniques
• Strengthen your job seekers’ own motivation to change
• Assess your job seekers’ readiness for change
• Help job seekers take ownership over achieving their goals
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 10am-1pm CST
Facilitator: Julia Evans
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
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.
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.
After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
Apply a coaching approach to set meaningful, collaborative goals with job seekers
Proactively prepare for goal setbacks with customers
Learn new tools you can use throughout the goal setting and attainment process
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 12pm-3pm CST
Facilitator: Wally Smith
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
Unlock Career Success: Train-the-Trainer Session on the Career Planning Process
Learn more about the CRC Curriculum as we train the trainer how to use the tool going through a lesson.
IDHS - ISETS Interactive Demo: Part 1 Webina
Join us for an interactive webinar 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 at the end of day Tuesday, April 22, 2025 to allow time to set participants up in the ISETS Test System.
After this training, you will be able to:
Support customers by learning to navigate ISETS during the intake process
Practice eligibility screening, completing the Initial Assessment, making and receiving referrals in ISETS
Know where to go if you have questions and need more assistance with ISETS
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 12pm-2pm CST
Facilitator: Kate Gannon
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
This is a training webinar 1 of 3. Register for the following to complete an ISETS webinar training series.
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.
Making The Right Employment Match Virtual Training
Find the right job for job seekers and increase retention rates.
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.
After this training, you will be able to:
Differentiate between bias, discrimination, and oppression
Reflect on their experience and skill in providing effective, anti-oppressive service to BIPOC clients
Identify at least 3 strategies for emotion regulation during common activating events.
Articulate a specific commitment to ongoing learning and/or behavior change for greater equity.
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 10 am-1 pm CST
Facilitator: Kate Harrington-Rosen
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
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!
IDHS - Trauma and Resilience Virtual Training
This training will provide a general overview of trauma and its impact on individuals, providers, and individual-provider relationships.
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.
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.
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.
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Virtual Training
Participants will leave with an understanding of vicarious trauma and the effect it has on employee wellness.
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.
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.