Urban Health Plan’s WorkForceBX (formerly Project HOPE) is the Greater Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation’s career and training center. It assists individuals with job readiness, training, and placement and serves as a point of contact for businesses, industries, and the public sector to identify solutions addressing workforce needs.
The program promotes strategies to encourage life-long learning while improving workplace skills. It assists in developing new training programs and equips community residents with the tools, strategies, and resources to create their own career action plans.
WorkForceBX’s approach to workforce development is market-driven and responsive to meeting the particular employment and training needs of South Bronx job seekers and employers.
WorkForceBX Enrichment Workshops and Support Services Include:
Orientation: Workforce BX’s in-depth orientation includes discussions of self-assessment career tools, the impact of job loss, resume creation, and career path development.
Job Search Skills– Tips on effective job search methods, using labor market information in your job search, and identifying your transferrable skills.
Basic and Advanced Resume Writing—Participants learn about the different types of resumes when to use them, and personal branding and marketing yourself to employers.
Interviewing: An interviewing skills workshop that prepares participants for all phases of interviewing and includes practicing the skills learned by conducting mock interviews.
Networking: A networking skills workshop provides current strategies for effective networking.
High School Completion Programs: Preparation to pass the High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) requirements or the General Education Development (GED) testing (if over 18 and out of school).
English as a Second Language: English instruction to read, write, communicate, and solve problems at a level necessary to function on the job, in school, or in society.
Health Care: Health Navigators provide health insurance information to low-income families, children, and pregnant women to help keep families healthy.
WorkForceBX also offers OSHA safety training, a key qualification for many industrial job opportunities. The OSHA program enhances a worker’s knowledge and proficiency in hazard identification in the work environment and the necessary controls to eliminate or minimize potential hazards.
The OSHA 30-hour, SST 10-hour, and DOB 40-hour training is offered in English and Spanish.
For More Information Contact:
Training An Placement
Miguel Calderon, Director
Cell: 917-655-0291 Email: [email protected]
Job Listings and Employment Services
Cielo Jaramillo, Job Developer
Office: 347-271-3756 E-mail: [email protected]
MWBE Certification and Small Business
Jerry Perez, MWBE Specialist
Cell: 347-940-3332 E-mail: [email protected]
Education and Academic Advice
Nelson Tuero, Adult Education specialist
Cell: 646-338-6210 E-mail: [email protected].
