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"Just give your chance a chance"
JARC grad tells how a math refresher class known as "Bridge" helped prepare her for manufacturing training and a career as a welder.
Replicating success at JARC by scaling training and employment services
Community-based nonprofit organizations like JARC provide a viable and increasingly necessary alternative for training, placing, and supporting low-income and disadvantaged populations in growing industries, according to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Solution to labor shortage: Hire ex-offenders
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, hiring people with criminal records has moved from kindness to necessity, according to Crain's Chicago Business.
Challenges in finding and developing skilled workers
An industry publication cites JARC's ability to access to a pool of qualified workers as well as offer on-site job training.
Women fight for their right to work in the trades
The Chicago Reader reports that JARC is supporting women in their fight for greater representation in male-dominated manufacturing jobs.
JARC serves two types of people
In less than two minutes, JARC President Guy Loudon shares the mission and heart of our training program. This video was produced with thanks to WGN Radio and Country Financial.
JARC grad tells her story on WGN Radio
On WGN 720 AM radio, a JARC grad shares her success story. Listen to the end to hear Country Financial's Victoria Nygren surprise JARC's Regan Brewer with a BIG gift.
WGN 720 AM talks job training with JARC head Guy Loudon
"Why haven't I ever heard of you?" asks WGN Radio host John Williams as Guy Loudon tells him of JARC's free training for low-income job seekers.
Companies looking for skilled workers don't have to go it alone
What must companies consider when partnering with a workforce development agency? Crain's talked to Guy Loudon, executive director of Jane Addams Resource, to find out.
LISC Chicago: Financial Opportunity Centers — Connecting People to the Local Economy
For the last decade, LISC’s network of Financial Opportunity Centers (FOCs) have helped residents of underserved neighborhoods establish good credit, find jobs, increase their incomes and learn digital skills.