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Chicago’s Performance Metrics: Family & Support Services – Workforce Services Monthly Utilization 2011 – 2016
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Chicago’s Performance Metrics: Family & Support Services – Workforce Services Monthly Utilization 2011 – 2016

September 14, 2021

This metric tracks workforce employment services including basic services, skills training and job placement per month.

​DFSS provides workforce development services to low income adults, dislocated workers and ex-offenders. These services include job readiness training, vocational training, job placement, supportive services and post-placement retention services.

​The Chicago-Cook Workforce Partnership, a newly created agency designed to reform and revitalize workforce development in the greater Chicagoland area, took over operation of DFSS’s Workforce Investment Act funding and delegate agency contracts on July 1, 2012. http://www.workforceboard.org

​Source: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/uava-8jbh
Last updated at https://data.cityofchicago.org/ : 2016-09-30


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