Support Services
UMOS provides customers with a variety of career development resources and supportive services.
Assessements
We work with customers to identify strengths, academic skill levels, career interests, aptitudes, goals, and support service needs.
Job Readiness Workshop
UMOS workshops provide our customers with structured curricula that emphasize personal development, conflict resolution, motivation, building self-esteem, goal setting, time-management, resumé development, interviewing skills, and career exploration. This training helps prepare our customers to meet workplace expectations.
Job Club
UMOS Job Clubs offer employment counseling and screening, intensive job search assistance, and employment placement. This is achieved through the effective use of networking, providing personal email accounts, internet job searches, and resume enhancements.
Additional Specialized Program Within W-2 Include:
• La Familia Saludable Program
La Familia Saludable program is a cooperative partnership with La Causa, Inc., Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services and the Department of Workforce Development. The program is a demonstration project that serves to assist families that are involved with the Milwaukee Bureau of Child Welfare and to prevent child abuse and neglect from taking place by assisting to stabilize fragile families. In addition, UMOS has implemented this model in the UMOS-Job Center (Central Region).
• Children First (CF)
The non-custodial parent who has no current means of meeting a child support obligation and does not work full-time may be court ordered into the Children First program. Children First is a program that promotes the emotional and financial responsibility that a non-custodial parent has toward his/her child(ren). The program provides job search assistance, work experience, education and training opportunities, and case management services designed to enable eligible non-custodial parents to obtain and retain employment.
• Learnfare (LF)
Learnfare is a program designed to assist at-risk students ages six to 17 to maintain and/or improve school attendance. It is for children in families whose parents are in W-2 employment positions that need case management to enable the student to maintain/improve school attendance, gain a high school diploma, and break the cycle of welfare dependency.
For more information on welfare reform/workforce development programs and services call 414-486-5200 or 414-389-6600 .
• SSI/SSDI Advocacy Agency
This innovative W-2 program served 529 clients who suffer from physical and/or mental health disabilities in the Milwaukee County area. Nearly 100 clients had successfully attained SSI benefits and were able to leave welfare services.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development “Green Flag Reports”, the UMOS SSI/SSDI Advocacy Agency has consistently been rated highest among all Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) W-2 agencies in both performance and customer satisfaction.
Because of growth in field operations, additional agency personnel will be required to enhance internal capacity for client advocacy services and legal research.
• National Farmworker Jobs Program
UMOS has been providing services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers for 42 years. UMOS has developed a comprehensive array of services around the National Farmworkers Jobs Program. In addition to supportive services, settled-out migrants received training through the WIA-167 program and were placed in full time jobs. Supportive services include Migrant Head Start, Migrant Day Care, health promotions and domestic violence supportive services.
•Crops harvested by migrants in Wisconsin include apples, cabbage, carrots, cherries, Christmas trees, corn, cucumbers, onions, peppers, potatoes, and tobacco.
•Migrants in Wisconsin also work in dairy farming, mink farming, pig farming, and cattle farming.
For more information on UMOS farmworker employment and training programs call 414-389-6600.
• WIA-167 Missouri
28 year old, Nereyda Luna from Elsa/Edcouch, Texas area, was born to migrant farmworkers. Her long term desire was to be a beautician.
In 2006, Nereyda enrolled in the WIA-167 Program with UMOS in Kennett, Missouri. She successfully completed Job Club training activities. UMOS staff negotiated a vocational training contract between Nereyda, UMOS, and the Professional Hair Academy in Caruthersville, Missouri.
Nereyda started classes in June 2006 and is currently attending school. Her completion date for graduation is June 2007.
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