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Community Jobs promotes work in the community, skill building and livable wage employment. It is the only program of its kind in the nation, providing welfare recipients with paychecks for their work in the public and nonprofit sectors, along with training, intensive case management, and work towards permanent economic self-sufficiency.
Community Jobs (CJ) is administered by the Washington State Office of Trade & Economic Development (OTED). CJ contracts with private non-profit agencies to offer nine months’ work with local governments or nonprofit organizations, and intensive supportive case management. CJ participants work at least 20 hours per week at the state minimum wage and are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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From Welfare Check to Paycheck
10.01.2002
| Transitional jobs programs are wage-based work and skill development
programs designed to promote employment among those who have little
or no work experience. In this model, participants work at short-term,
publicly subsidized jobs that combine real work, skill development,
and support services to help them overcome substantial barriers to
employment. Full
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Real Work, a Paycheck, and Education Lead to Success for Welfare Parents
04.16.2002 | Washington's Community Jobs program to be showcased in Washington D.C., as Congress takes up welfare reform legislation. Read »
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Community Jobs gave Maria a new start.
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EOI helped design and implement the Community Jobs program, an innovative public-private partnership serving "hard-to-employ" individuals on TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families), in the late 1990's.
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