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What is OIC?
Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) is a network of
comprehensive employment training programs across the nation. The first OIC
was founded in Philadelphia in 1964. From its beginnings in an abandoned
jailhouse, OIC has grown into an organization which serves disadvantaged
and under-skilled Americans of all races.
OIC Affiliates are involved in a variety of programs
which impact upon disadvantaged Americans, encompassing employment training,
alternative education systems and economic development. With more than 37 years
of operation, OIC's have served over 2 million persons with a placement rate
better than 75% in full-time positions.
What is its Mission?
Through its programs and outreach facilities, OIC has
provided recruitment, training, job placement and employee services to the
unemployed, underemployed and unskilled for more than 37 years.
How is OIC Organized & Operated?
TThe national headquarters is known as Opportunities
Industrialization Centers of America (OICA) and serves local OICs in most
states and Washington, D.C. Through the central administration headquarters
in Philadelphia, OICA provides Affiliates with technical assistance in the
areas of program planning and operations.
OIC operates on a national as well as local level. On the
local level, OICA has chartered Affiliates. Each OIC Affiliate is incorporated
in the state where it is located and has its own Board of Directors whose
membership reflects the diversity of the community.
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