Our Mission:
To assist individuals to become economically self-sufficient by providing resources, training and job placement opportunities.
We offer Job Seekers:Tools to Overcome Employment Barriers
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We offer Employers:Qualified Applicants
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Facts About Partners in Careers
- Specialty Populations Served: Refugees, persons with limited English proficiency, persons transitioning from welfare, ex-offenders, persons with disabilities, seniors ages 55+
- Key Activities: Employability assessment, career counseling, classroom and work site training, job search preparation, job development, job matching. job placement and follow-up
- Foreign Language Capacity: Russian, Ukrainian, Bosnian, Spanish
- Number of Staff: 17
- Originally a division of Clark County government; incorporated as a private nonprofit [501(c)(3)] in 1991
- Board of Directors: 9 - 15 members reflecting a wide spectrum of occupations and skills
- Annual operating Budget: $3 million
- Current Revenue Streams
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Washington State Department of Commerce
- Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Section and Aging and Disability Services Administration
- Oregon State Department of Human Services, State Refugee Program
- Clark County Department of Community Services
- Charitable Donations
Community Partners
PIC works with numerous community partners to get the job done. Partners include the State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Department of Commerce, Clark County, Clark College, Washington State University-Vancouver Extension, Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, WorkSource, Paws-N-Claws, Friends of the Carpenter and Clark County Quilters.
We also coordinate closely with other non-profit organizations such as SHARE, Human Services Council, Innovative Services Northwest and the Southwest Washington Humane Society.
Business Outreach
Through our Community Jobs Program we work closely with local non-profit organizations to place clients who are on public assistance. Clients get on-the-job training and help local organizations function economically by receiving staffing at no cost for up to six months.
PIC is also developing partnerships with the private sector through the State of Washington Career Jump Program and through our new Veteran Women Program. Through Career Jump, local business can receive a staff member with subsidized minimum wages for three months. The business must commit to hiring the staff member at the end of the three months. Local businesses can also participate in PIC’s new Veteran Women Program by committing to providing internships, work study opportunities and employment for women veterans in the program.
If you are a non-profit or private sector business interested in working with PIC, please call PIC Executive Director Pam Brokaw at 360-696-8417 or contact her at pam@swwpic.org.
How You Can Help
There are many ways you can help PIC serve our community.
Opportunities include joining our Board of Directors or helping out on one of our Advisory Committees.
If you represent a local business, we’d love to talk with you about placing one of our clients in a subsidized employment situation. We have options for both non-profit and private sector businesses.
Your contributions to our Veteran Women Program also are welcome. Donations, which can be made on-line on this website, go directly to help women veterans with training and other costs related to becoming self-sufficient. Please consider become a supporter of the VWP today.
