We'll take the first steps with you.
We'll take the first steps with you.
We’re committed to providing career and financial coaching and helping people find jobs that help them reach their goals.
Career Coaching
Each Cincinnati Works Member receives professional coaching designed to help make employment easier to find, keep, and succeed at. Our coaches are experienced, compassionate professionals who have helped thousands of your neighbors identify their strengths and goals while honing the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. Our coaches want to help you:
- Assess your strengths, weaknesses, ambitions, challenges
- Address challenges, connect with additional services, assess progress, plan next steps
- Determine your goals and develop a plan with practical steps to reach them
Financial Coaching
In order to accomplish the most with the money they have coming in, Members take part in financial coaching that can give them techniques and strategies for creating and maintaining a budget, as well as other financial matters.
Cincinnati Works has full-time financial coaches who provide a range of FREE financial services to our Members, including:
- Budgeting
- Savings and checking accounts
- Understanding and building credit
- Resolving debt
- Preparing taxes
- Accessing loans
Employment Connection
In addition to preparing our Members to be excellent additions to any team, Cincinnati Works partners with more than 75 regional employers who believe in our mission and know the value of helping people improve their lives.
Members can apply in our offices, online, or at job fairs. Our partners and dedicated staffing specialists will work to find positions that will help them reach their goals.
We partner with companies who support their people and believe in our mission, including those in the Beacon of Hope Business Alliance who employ people with criminal records, felony convictions, or who are returning citizens.
Support & Counseling
Cincinnati Works provides or directs Members to the support that they need to thrive in their new job. No one succeeds alone, and by providing a robust network of resources, Cincinnati Works helps Members make the most of their opportunities.
In addition to one-on-one career coaching, we provide:
- Transportation assistance
- Behavioral health counseling
- Budgeting, tax prep and debt management
- Legal coordination
See how our Members succeed.
Member Success Story: Simone Epperson
Several years ago, Simone Epperson came to Cincinnati Works in dire need of a job and dreaming of a better life. As is so often the case, a job was just the beginning. Simone is
Member Success Story: Deamonta Williams
Through the encouragement of his Cincinnati Works coach and a happy accident, Deamonta Williams found himself in a car with a man looking to fill a full-time position with good benefits. Through months of diligence
Member Success Story: Raey Hill
Raey Hill has never minded getting up early to work. Even when he was in a Pennsylvania prison and his pay was 42 cents per hour, he was awake and ready to go every day.