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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:
· Preparing a resume
· Learning and/or practicing interviewing
skills
· Problem solving strategies/options for
handling your specific issues.
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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