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Current Job Training Programs- Career One-Stop Centers (Links to your state's One Stop Career Centers)
- Association for Career and Technical Education
The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.
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Chicago Women In Trades (CWIT) (Chicago area, Illinois, USA) CWIT provides support, advocacy, and education to tradeswomen; works to increase training for women and girls to enter nontraditional jobs; provides technical assistance to employers, unions, and other tradeswomen groups; documents trends in the nontraditional workplace; and advocates for improved policies and practices that support women's access to nontraditional training and jobs, as well as success and safety on the job.
Chicago Women In Trades (CWIT)
4425 S. Western
Rear
Chicago, IL 60609
ph: 773.376.1450
fax:773.376.1456
cwitinfo@cwit2.org - Department of Labor Job Training Page
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- Green Advantage
Green Advantage is recognized throughout the building industry as the green builder credential for construction personnel. - The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI)
The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), a offshoot of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), provides professional credentialing and project certification programs related to green building. GBCI develops and administers the LEED Professional Credential exams, which include the LEED Green Associate and LEED AP with specialty credentials, as well as the LEED for Homes Green Rater and LEED Project Reviewer professional certificates. -
Hard Hatted Women (Cleveland area, Ohio, USA) To empower women to achieve economic independence by creating workplace diversity in trade and technical careers. Provides Support, Education and Advocacy.
Hard Hatted Women
4220 Prospect Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44103
216.861.6500
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Collaborative (MARC) Job Training (DC/MD/VA, USA)
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Missouri Women in the Trades (St. Louis area, Missouri, USA)Missouri Women In Trades is a not for profit dedicated to supporting and promoting women in the construction trades.
Teresa Willis
Executive Director
8300 Manchester Rd.
Brentwood, MO 63144
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Moore Community House: Women in Construction (WinC)(Gulf coast, Mississippi, USA)WinC offers low-income women free training and job placement in the building industry on the Gulf Coast.
Julie Kuklinski
Moore Community House
Women In Construction Program Director
684 Walker St.
Biloxi, MS 39530
Cell: 228-297-0965
Fax: 228-436-6605
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NEW prepares women for nontraditional careers in the construction, utilities, maintenance, green, and transportation industries. NEW - Nontraditional Employment for Women (New York City area, New York, USA)NEW - Nontraditional Employment for Women
243 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 627-6252
(646) 486-2293 Fax
- Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. (Portland area, Oregon, USA)
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc., (OTI) is dedicated to promoting success for women in the trades through education, leadership and mentorship.
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
3934 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Suite 101
Portland, OR 97212
503.335.8200 phone
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Port Jobs (Seattle area, Washington State, USA)Port Jobs readies future logistics workers for the Port of Seattle and SeaTac Airport economy. Our mission is to make good jobs easier to get and good employees easier to find.
Port Jobs
Pier 69, P.O. Box 1209
Seattle, WA 98111
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Sisters in the Building Trades
The mission of Sister’s in the Building Trades is to expand a network of active women that will affirm building trades sisters as a positive and growing part of the construction workforce. To increase the number of trades women through cooperative recruitment efforts and mentoring support for enhanced retention. -
Tradeswomen Inc. (Oakland area, California, USA)California's first organization for women in the trades, was founded in 1979 as a grass- roots support organization. We build community among the growing numbers of women in blue collar, skilled craft jobs.
Tradeswomen,Inc.
1433 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
fax: (510) 891-8775
Executive Director, Meg Vasey
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Washington Women in Trades (WWIT) (Seattle area, Washington State, USA)Washington Women in Trades (WWIT) Educate, Promote and Celebrate Women in Trades. We Facilitate Access for Women in the Skilled Trades.
Washington Women in Trades
PO Box 24972
Seattle, WA 98124-0972
(206) 903-9508
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Women in Nontraditional Employment Roles (Winter) (Los Angeles area, California USA) WINTER is the only non-traditional employment organization for women and youth serving Southern California since 1996. Provides support, Education and Advocacy.
Women In Non Traditional Employment Roles
3655 South Grand Avenue, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Tel. 213-749-3970
Fax 213-749-3918
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Women Unlimited (Maine, USA)Women Unlimited improves the financial independence of Maine women, minorities, and disadvantaged workers by providing training and access to jobs with livable wages for careers in trades, construction, technical, and transportation industries.
Women Unlimited
103 Winthrop Street
Augusta, Maine 04330
(800) 281-5259 or (207) 623-7576
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Vermont Works for Women (Burlington area, Vermont, USA) VWW works to address the needs of women in Vermont to earn a livable wage and to succeed despite numerous personal, educational and economic barriers to employment. We also work to educate women and girls about the wide array of nontraditional career opportunities available to them, many of which may have never occurred to them to pursue. We aim to serve women and girls from all over the state, from a wide variety of races, ethnicities, economic backgrounds, sexual orientations and physical abilities.
Vermont Works for Women
32A Malletts Bay Ave.
Winooski, VT 05404
phone: 802.655.8900
toll free: 800.639.1472
fax: 802.655.8922
info@vtworksforwomen.org