IDHS - Career Coaching | Virtual Training
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.
IDHS - Community of Practice Meeting #4
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.
IDHS - ISETS Interactive Demo: Part 3 Webinar
In this session, you'll learn to navigate ISETS for job retention, including how to enter job placement information, retention services, and monthly reports. You'll also discover where to find further assistance and resources when needed. This is a training webinar 3 of 3. Register for the following to complete an ISETS webinar training series.
IDHS - Training Advisory Meeting 2
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.
CRC Train-The-Trainer: Resume Fundamentals | Virtual Training
In Topic 3, Lesson 1 of our Career Readiness Curriculum, Resume Fundamentals, we’ll explore the critical role of resumes in the job search process. Learn how to help clients craft resumes that showcase their skills, experience, and potential while opening doors to meaningful opportunities.
This session also highlights practical coaching strategies to guide clients in reflecting on their experiences, identifying transferable skills, and confidently preparing or revising their resumes.
What You’ll Gain:
A Clear Understanding of Resume Purpose
Understand how resumes support job seekers’ goals and open pathways to employment.Coaching Techniques for Stronger Resumes
Help clients align their experiences with job goals and emphasize transferable skills.Foundational Coaching Strategies
Use active listening, powerful questions, and feedback to support resume development.
Date: July 16, 2025
Time: 1pm-2:30pm CST
Facilitator: Ciera Smith/CJC
Price: Member - $50 // Non-member - $60
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
Everyday Leadership In Workforce Development | Virtual Training
In this interactive session, workforce development professionals will explore how leadership shows up in everyday actions—whether working with clients, collaborating with colleagues, or navigating change. Participants will learn key traits of effective everyday leaders, reflect on their own strengths, and gain practical tools to lead with purpose, influence, and integrity from any role.
IDHS - Making Metrics Matter: Using Data to Improve Your Programming | Virtual Training
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.
Unlock Career Success: Train-the-Trainer Session on the Career Planning Process
Learn more about the CRC Curriculum as we train the trainer how to use the tool going through a lesson.
Strengths Based Coaching In-Person Training
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.
Workforce Convo: Accelerating Skills-Based Hiring- Unlocking Employment Pathways Through Work-Based Learning
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.
Making The Right Employment Match Virtual Training
Find the right job for job seekers and increase retention rates.
IDHS - Advanced Cultural Competency: Understanding Dominant Culture Virtual Training
Through a combination of reflective exercises, practical strategies, and interactive discussions, attendees will learn to differentiate between bias, discrimination, and oppression, while gaining insight into their own experiences in delivering equitable care. The course will also focus on emotion regulation techniques for managing common activating events and encourage participants to make a personal commitment to continued learning and behavior change, fostering a more inclusive and equitable service environment.
After this training, you will be able to:
Differentiate between bias, discrimination, and oppression
Reflect on their experience and skill in providing effective, anti-oppressive service to BIPOC clients
Identify at least 3 strategies for emotion regulation during common activating events.
Articulate a specific commitment to ongoing learning and/or behavior change for greater equity.
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 10 am-1 pm CST
Facilitator: Kate Harrington-Rosen
Price: Free
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 24 hours prior - please be sure to spell your information correctly when registering)
Recruitment & Enrollment of Job Seekers Virtual Training
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!
IDHS - Trauma and Resilience Virtual Training
This training will provide a general overview of trauma and its impact on individuals, providers, and individual-provider relationships.
Conflict Resolution For Creating And Sustaining Inclusive Workplaces In-Person Training
In this training, participants will establish a common language for expressing emotions and needs, and work on identifying the underlying causes of conflicts.
IDHS - Equip Job Seekers for Success with Workplace Navigation Skills Virtual Training
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.
Workforce Convo: Post-Election Policy Review
Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Virtual Training
Participants will leave with an understanding of vicarious trauma and the effect it has on employee wellness.
Trauma Informed Care In-Person Training
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.
Collaborative Strategies for Equitable Outcomes: Implementing CJC’s Anti-Racist Framework Webinar
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 Virtual Training
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.
Brews & Ballads: Fall Fundraiser 2024
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.
IDHS - Introduction to Workforce Development Systems Webinar
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.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
Workforce Convos: Building an Equitable Chicago
Join the Chicago Jobs Council for an insightful event where we will explore innovative policy ideas to create a more equitable economy in Chicago.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match Virtual Training
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility In Person Training
Cultural competency and cultural humility are approaches that cultivate self-awareness and self-reflection, bringing a respectful willingness to examine interpersonal interactions.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
CCWP’s Conducting Quality Intake Assessments Virtual Training
Our first session with a client lays the foundation for a successful relationship. We’re challenged to fill out forms and ask sensitive questions while also trying to build rapport. We will explore how to find the balance between completing required paperwork and creating space to build strong relationships with clients. Learn how to make the most of your limited time with clients to achieve their employment goals.
Promoting Policy Alignment to Combat Systemic Racism
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) is hosting a Community of Practice on May 22, 2024, featuring conversations on how we can combat system racism from a through policy. If you want to be in a community with like-minded workforce and policy professionals, this community of practice is for you!
We will engage in a series of discussions and workshops aimed at developing strategies and methods to advocate for anti-racist policies that promote equity and inclusion. Participants will have the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges and difficulties they face in this critical work. Sharing best practices will empower us all to navigate these challenges more effectively.
This space will encourage accountability and facilitate the exchange of valuable lessons and experiences as we collectively commit to working together in new and transformative ways. Collaboration is the cornerstone of lasting change.
We aim to inform workforce actors about innovative and inclusive approaches to policy design and implementation. This conversation will encourage workforce professionals to reimagine their approaches to workforce policy. We seek to create a future where policies are equitable and just.
Our discussions will shed light on the ways in which practitioners may inadvertently advance harmful, racist policies. Through deconstruction, we can dismantle these barriers to progress.
Cost: Free
Date: May 22, 2024
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Join us for an optional networking hour from 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Chicago Jobs Council Office
29 E. Madison, Suite 1700-C
Chicago, IL 60602
IDHS - Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Informed Agency Strategies Virtual Training
Agencies that have implemented a trauma-informed approach have realized improvements in productivity and organizational outcomes. Trauma-informed care recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role trauma may play in an individual's life-including service staff. Becoming a trauma-informed agency means making a commitment to changing the practices, policies, and culture of an entire organization. On an organizational level, trauma-informed care changes organizational culture to emphasize respecting and appropriately responding to the effects of trauma at all levels.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.
CCWP’s Making The Right Employment Match
You’ve learned the hard way that connecting job seekers to the first job opening you find doesn’t usually last. While it can take more time, finding the best employment match for each of your job seekers leads to better retention outcomes and fulfillment of their long-term career aspirations.