Programs and Initiatives
Below find a list of CWE programs and initiatives. You can find contact information on how to get connected to us and our partners. To the right, you can find a map of our where our partner programming is based, along with contact information and organization descriptions. Use the button in the top left corner of the map to toggle for different partners and initiatives.
Jobs to Build On
The New York City Council funded Jobs to Build On (JtBO) program is a citywide and neighborhood-based job training and placement partnership committed to performance and accountability. JtBO services include skills training in areas such as construction trades, transportation, green jobs, office skills, healthcare, communications and media, restaurant services and culinary arts as well as direct job placement.
Worker Service Centers
Through a city-wide network of community-based organizations, the CWE provides resources for workforce preparation classes, career training and job placement services with a focus on the residents of low-income communities, New Americans, the under-employed and those entering the workforce for the first time. The CWE Worker Service Centers provide instructional services to community-based organizations that conduct workforce training for New York City residents.
The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project is a pilot program that was developed to assist working parents to increase access to child care subsidies and quality care in New York City for children up to 13 years of age with qualifying incomes.
The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project
Astoria Project
The Astoria Worker Project is a new initiative from CWE to create a worker center to offer a range of social services to the residents of Astoria and Western Queens. It will meld CWE’s proven workforce development programming with forward-thinking services that are responsive to New York City’s evolving economy. The center will offer workforce development resources, enhance workers’ rights, address mental health needs, support the creation of worker co-operatives, and provide programming to benefit immigrant communities.
NY ATLAS
Founded in 2017 with a grant from JP Morgan Chase Foundation, the NY Alliance for Transport/Logistics Advancement Services develops pathways to unionized employment in the public and private transportation sector. Partnering with labor/management coalitions, NYATLAS identifies in-demand occupation, charts industry credentials and designs and deploys custom training courses for maximum outcomes.
Immigrant Protection Group
CWE’s Immigrant Protection Group provides comprehensive workshops to union members, Worker Service Centers’ (WSC) staff and constituency, and to community based organizations in need of accurate and reliable information concerning the current state of our country’s immigration policies.
Union Initiatives
The CWE is the workforce development arm of the New York City Central Labor Council AFL-CIO, which represents 1.2 million union members in the Metropolitan region. As such, the CWE provides incumbent union worker training for 31 affiliated unions and labor / management cooperatives in varied sectors including healthcare, skilled construction, transportation, hospitality, and civil service.
Gun Violence Prevention Youth Training Program
Under the direction and guidance of the Department of Labor, CWE provides job training, credentialing and placement in good-paying jobs to young workers in New York City who reside in zip codes impacted by high rates of gun violence.
The Facilitated Enrollment Scholarship Program
The Facilitated Enrollment Scholarship Program is part of a statewide investment to extend child care support to new families developed by the New York Union Child Care Coalition (NYUCCC) and administered by the Consortium for Worker Education (CWE).
Health Care Training Initiative
CWE contracts with organizations who are interested in providing Allied Health Care training in all classification titles to their workforce. Some of the skilled training porvided by CWE include CPR/First Aid, Central Sterile Processing and Distribution, Clinical Medical Assistant, Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor, and Electrocardiogram Technician.
