The Learning Center instructors solicit business and industry recommendations to keep their training relevant. Industry representatives provide work experience sites, hire graduates, demonstrate new procedures, offer field trip opportunities and serve on the Advisory Committee.

Pre-Employment Work Maturity

The Pre-Employment Work Maturity course prepares participants to enter the world of work. Pre-Employment Work Maturity consists of two parts where the first section, Pre-Employment, addresses job search preparation and the second section, Work Maturity, addresses job retention.

Adult Basic Education

The Adult Basic Education Program at Arizona OIC is an amalgam of individual tutoring, group work and a Comprehensive Competencies Program (CCP) from US Basics. The CCP is a self-paced computer graded course. Workbooks complement the tests from which the students work. The three areas that are covered in Adult Basic Education are Reading, Mathematics, and Language.

Administrative Office Skills

Computerized Office Procedures is intended for students aiming to work in an office using a wide assortment of clerical skills. Participants are inducted in office procedures and how clerical staff support the business practices of a department/firm and its personnel. We prepare students for office positions in a large or small company and in government offices or in schools. Competency, attitudes which promote job retention, and appropriate communication skills are stressed throughout.

The use of the computers is a major part of this program. Students may enroll with or without any prior experience with a typewriter or computer keyboard. Those who can test at an intermediate level may begin with the more advanced activities and complete the program earlier.

Counseling Services

Help you cope with feelings of loneliness, anxiety and depression Enhance your self-esteem Balance demands of home/school/work Acquire new insights and self-confidence

Job Placement Services

Arizona OIC’s main objective is to assist you with identifying, obtaining, and maintaining employment. You will meet with a qualified employment specialist who can assist you with your specific job seeking needs. Our staff are available to provide you with any or all of the following, based on your needs and desires:

Reaching Out for Minority Personnel (ROMP)

Over twenty-eight years ago, the Arizona OIC initiated a unique program to attract members of minority groups to law enforcement careers. Today the project has been expanded to include Fire Department personnel. The Reaching Out for Minority Personnel (ROMP) program consists of three phases:

A campaign to make community members aware that there is a need for ethnic minority members and women to represent their interest in the public safety area;

A comprehensive community relations effort involving personal contact by the Az OIC staff with members of the minority community.

Structured classes designed to assist ethnic minorities and women to prepare for the academic and physical requirements of the Police or Fire Departments.

Project S.A.L.T.

This health coalition is a program of the Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center. The name of this project is S.A.L.T. - “Saving African-American Lives Today”. Our mission is to improve the health status of the African-American communities of Maricopa County, which are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Substance Abuse and TB: by establishing and providing access to culturally sensitive prevention, care and treatment of services, through community collaboration.

Summer Youth Work Experience Program

For more than twenty-three years, Arizona OIC has effectively organized and implemented the Summer Youth Work Experience Program, which serves eligible youth, ages 14-21, who reside in the City of Phoenix. Services have been provided to more than 9,250 disadvantaged youth. Through the SYWEP activity, we have provided youth exposure to career fields that offer opportunities for advancement.

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