Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) is a Center for Working Families that focuses on job training and workforce development. JARC’s job training programs target strategic skills gaps in the manufacturing and IT sectors, such as Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machinist, welder and computer specialist. As a Center for Working Families (CWF), JARC provides bundled financial support services, such as income supports, financial coaching and employment services.
As a Center for Working Families (CWF), JARC provides bundled financial support services, such as income supports, financial coaching and employment services. The interplay between the sectoral job training and CWF models creates a more holistic strategy for helping individuals and families to transition out of poverty.
JARC’s work helps to strengthen the local economy through the growth of neighborhood businesses.
JARC was founded in 1985 as an economic development agency concentrated in the Ravenswood Industrial Corridor. Its initial efforts focused on industrial retention and included development and operation of commercial buildings for industrial use.
In the 1990s JARC’s manufacturing training programs made the agency a pioneering leader in the Sectoral approach to workforce development. It has continued to evolve as a best practice model.
Over the last decade, the agency has been at the leading edge of new approaches that stress credit building, asset development and mainstream financial behaviors.
The agency’s programs and services have grown and evolved considerably over the last 25 years, but its purpose has always been very simple: people who work should not live in poverty.
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