We help families become financially stable and independent. Your donations enable Camden County residents to achieve work readiness, long-term employment, financial literacy, established credit, a bank account and adequate housing. Here are the programs which receive Income funds from United Way of Camden County:
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Abilities Center of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Workforce Development – Vocational Assessment
Program Summary: This program consists of a mobile assessment of career objectives and identification of employment strategies, with qualified Vocational Evaluators utilizing career exploration and formal testing for persons with disabilities.
AIDS Coalition of Southern New jersey
Program Name: Phoenix Employment Program
Program Summary: In concert with the Social Security Administration – the ticket to Work Program andprovides the opportunity for HIV+ and physically and mentally disabled individuals to receive employment counseling, resume assistance, and job skills training.
The Arc of Camden County
Program Name: Occupational Training Workshop Support
Program Summary: The Occupational Training Center’s goal is to provide vocational training, support service and job placement and follow up services, in the least restrictive environment possible, for adults with disabilities.
Boys & Girls Club of Camden County
Program Name: JobReady!
Program Summary: This program builds essential skills in teen participants to help them in the working world, while providing a road map to career interest. Through engaging experimental activities, demonstrations, role-playing, and practice sessions members develop competencies that are observable and measurable.
Camden County College Foundation
Program Name: Community Gateway Program
Program Summary: This program provides Camden City participants with a neighborhood-based learning environment and a pro bono 15-week course of basic instruction per semester that prepares them foremployment specific skill development.
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Camden
Program Name: Bridge to Your Future
Program Summary: This program provides financial coaching and case management with a goal of financial sufficiency for people who are currently or were dependant on public and/or private assistance.
Center for Family Services, Inc
Program Name: Services to Assist Families & Elderly
Program Summary: Services to Assist Families & Elderly is designed to help older and disabled adults maintain their autonomy and remain living in their own homes and communities for as long and as safely as possible.
Hispanic Family Center of Southern New Jersey
Program Name: Recursos Para El Trabajo Program
Program Summary: This program focuses on teaching participants English as a Second Language, computer skills, and civics. The program’s goal is to provide a holistic, customized approach to helping participants secure employment and assisting potential employers meet their hiring goals.
Mental Health Association in Southwestern New Jersey
Program Name: CAMWERCS
Program Summary: CAMWERCS works with youth ages 16 to 21 from Center for Family Services residential program to equip them with the skills they need to seek, obtain and sustain employment. Youth will learn about different vocations, how to complete a job application and create a resume, interview skills, and work appropriate behavior. Staff will work together with youth to develop a personal plan and an employment plan to track progress.
Parkside Business & Community in Partnership, Inc.
Program Name: HOPE Institute
Program Summary: Help participants acquire the skills and knowledge needed to manage their credit and work through budget issues. Topics such as household budgeting, credit clean-up, understanding the mortgage process and the responsibilities of home ownership will be covered.
Steininger Behavioral Care Services, Inc.
Program Name: Working for Self Reliance (WSR)
Program Summary: This program will provide case management services to mentally ill young adults between the ages of 18-25. The case management services will include individual assessment (clinical, work readiness, financial), service planning, linkage with services, monitoring, consumer education and support, consumer advocacy, and system advocacy.
South Jersey Legal Services
Program Name: Community Legal Education & Outreach
Program Summary: The Community Legal Education & Outreach program provides legal education seminars and materials to Camden County residents. The sessions enables clients to be able to support the family, preserve the home, maintain economic stability, experience safety, stability and health; populations with special vulnerabilities are free of legal problems; and clients experience access to justice.
Respond, Inc.
Program Name: Cooking With Teens
Program Summary: The NWJD Center will focus on training, job retention and employment that provide career ladder mobility. Specific training is planned in auto technology, culinary arts, home-based heath care, online entry-level banking service training, and entrepreneurial workshops for both students and adults. Programs that are open to community residents will include access to computers, workshops, financial literacy education, a clothing wardrobe, etc.
Work Group, Inc.
Program Name: Youth Corps. Program
Program Summary: This program provides full-time education and work readiness training designed for school dropouts from Camden County. It provides services to students transitioning into employment, post-secondary education, or technical skill training offering home check-ins, on-site job retention support, supervision, “lifetime” resume updates and replacement services, job matching, career coaching, access to an after-hours hotline, etc.
