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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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