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Services for Dislocated Workers

For more than 28 years, St. Louis Community College Employment and Training Center (STLCC-ETC), a department in the Workforce & Community Development division, has provided successful, dynamic workforce development services in the St. Louis metropolitan area to dislocated workers.

Currently the ETC operates Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs through contracts with the St. Louis City and St. Louis County Workforce Investment Boards. STLCC is the only college in the State of Missouri that operates WIA programs and is the largest WIA provider in the St. Louis region and one of the largest in the state, with 75 employees located at eight Missouri Career Center/One Stop locations including one on a STLCC campus. Our Dislocated Worker contracts total nearly $3,000,000 and includes WIA Title IB dislocated worker formula fund programs, and four Dislocated Worker National Emergency Grants to serve individuals affected by mass lay-offs in the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

The State of Missouri Division of Workforce Development has asked the college to operate a Chrysler Regional Transition One-Stop Center focused on the needs of the laid off Chrysler employees scheduled to open in July 2009.

The services provided through each of these programs include:

  • Recruitment: Presentations to employees at company locations at the time of layoff to explain the Dislocated Worker program and services provided through the Missouri Career Centers and workshops on site for businesses that request the service at the time of layoffs.
  • Career Counseling: Assessment of individuals’ work history, marketable skills, transferable skills, barriers to the job search, occupational training and desired career goals.
  • Career Development Seminars: Five-day seminar covering the following job search related topics: job search strategies, resume writing, cover letters, interviewing, career advancement and soft skill training.
  • Job Development/Placement: Work one-on-one with individuals to review their resumes and develop marketing strategies to area employers; make on-site company visits, identify personnel needs, and make presentations to business and industry organizations, networking clubs that are industry specific, recruitment events.
  • 12 month Retention Follow-up: Support individuals’ success through their career transition process.