This month’s Workforce Convo will spotlight CJC’s work alongside CEJA grantees and the lessons emerging from our CEJA Table. Join us as we explore how community organizations are connecting residents to training and clean energy opportunities, and what this means for our broader workforce ecosystem.

This 4-hour, in-person session provides a focused and interactive experience. Participants will explore the foundations of coaching, build confidence in core skills, and engage in hands-on practice that deepens understanding and skill development in real time.

This intensive is ideal for professionals looking to integrate a coaching approach into their work with staff, clients, or colleagues.

Through this training, learn strategies to build a better relationship with your jobseekers to work towards their employment goals. 

CJC is hosting a feedback forum for IDHS providers called the "Training Advisory Group," designed to foster open discussion and collaboration. These sessions will provide an opportunity for providers to share insights, address challenges, and contribute to the ongoing improvement of training programs, ensuring they adapt to the evolving needs of the community and support professional growth.

This session offers a dedicated space for frontline SNAP/TANF E&T providers to pause, reflect, and celebrate their impact. Through stories, shared insights, and peer-to-peer engagement, participants will recognize their contributions to workforce development across Illinois. The session will spotlight successes, explore the experiences of those delivering critical services, and offer tools to sustain momentum and promote well-being in the months ahead. By the end, providers will leave reconnected to their purpose, their peers, and the power of their collective work.

This training will equip you with essential skills to empower job seekers by recognizing their strengths and fostering collaborative partnerships. You will learn practical tools for setting and achieving goals, incorporating motivational interviewing, active listening, and visioning into your sessions. Enhance your ability to support job seekers through accountable, strengths-based coaching.

Learn more about the CRC Curriculum as we train the trainer how to use the tool going through a lesson.

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.

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.

Find the right job for job seekers and increase retention rates.

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!

This training will provide a general overview of trauma and its impact on individuals, providers, and individual-provider relationships.

In this training, participants will establish a common language for expressing emotions and needs, and work on identifying the underlying causes of conflicts.

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.

Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.

Participants will leave with an understanding of vicarious trauma and the effect it has on employee wellness.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.