The New Community Adult Learning Center provides support for adults in need of resources, training and services.  The center also offers a variety of bi-lingual courses.

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2010 GRAD HOWARD THORNTON
As far back as he can remember, Howard Thornton has been surrounded by automobiles.

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New Community Workforce Development Center
201 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07103
973-824-6484 or 973-639-5600

As featured in NewarkPulse.com

The Center is a state-of-the-art, $4.5 million continuing education facility and New Jersey’s premier on-stop center for career training in a variety of fields, including (click to download brochure):

• School of Licensed Practical Nursing
• Automotive Technician Program
• Culinary Arts Specialist Program
• Gateway-to-Work

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From NCC To His Own Auto Body Business 
To find someone whose life has been changed by New Community’s Youth and Adult Automotive Training Center (YAATC), look no further than Tarik Mack. Now the owner of an auto body shop in East Orange, Mr. Mack enrolled and graduated from the YAATC program. Mr. Mack started as an automotive trainee and attended NCC night and day programs.

(973) 824-6484
201 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07103

New Community’s Gateway to Work is the largest welfare-to-work program in New Jersey, serving more than 2,000 people annually. Gateway uses a rapid transition to work model, stressing job readiness and employability skills. The program has forged a series of innovative partnerships and productive relationships with potential employers.

• Holistic
  
• Comprehensive Approach
  
• Customer Focused Approach
  
• Operations Structured around Intensive Case Management
  
• Job Placement Innovations
  
• Specialized Initiatives

In an effort to reinforce the culture change brought about by welfare reform, the Gateway to Work program refers to all WFNJ participants as Associates. This change in nomenclature immediately signals to everyone that Gateway to Work is about moving people into the workforce towards self-sufficiency, and discouraging previous attitudes of dependency.

The goal of Gateway to Work is to provide a total continuum of services including comprehensive job readiness and employability skills training activities focused on rapid attachment to the workforce, job placement and retention, and assistance to overcome the multiple barriers that Associates often encounter. The program has forged a series of innovative partnerships and productive relationships with potential employers.

Customized Job Training with ShopRite Supermarkets - Wakefern Food Corporation “Partners-In-Training” with New Community Corporation
Gateway to Work's Rapid Transition-To-Work Program features specialized and highly successful collaboration of the three entities to provide cashiering and custom services training that leads to employment with one of 12 local ShopRite stores. This course provides the Associates with hands-on training with the ShopRite computer-based program and working with the cash registers in our mini supermarket lab.  Associates who successfully complete this program are eligible for employment at one of the ShopRite locations.

Job Placement Services
The Gateway to Work approach to employment services includes: meeting with all potential employers that have job openings, and identifying and linking the Associates to appropriate, available and accessible employment. 

• The goal is matching the right Associate with the right job.
• Employers are encouraged to visit the classes in which the Associates participate. This assures employers the program is focused on training Associates in these areas they have deemed important. Gateway staff links directly with employers to establish on-the-job training opportunities for Associates.
• The placement unit engages in a variety of activities to develop jobs, including targeting various sectors and working with groups, such as: The Regional Business Partnerships, Chambers of Commerce and the One-Stop Centers.
• Having access of a database with 500 employers listed.
• The Gateway efforts in this area have shown tremendous results, with a 65 percent placement and retention rate for the Associates.

Counseling and Post-Program Services
Intensive case management services are provided to everyone enrolled in the program. This includes assigning participants to a Job-Plus Coordinator, who works directly with each Gateway to Work’s Associate to assist them in providing support services to help alleviate barriers that would prohibit them from employment while they are in the program. Follows up and post-employment support services are also provided by the Job Plus Coordinator to our employed Associates after training.

Supportive Assistance to Individuals and Families (SAIF) Program
The Supportive Assistance to Individuals and Families (SAIF) program for TANF recipients is funded by the NJDHS Division of Family Development. The SAIF program has provided intensive case management to individuals who have reached their 60-month limit on welfare since October 1, 2003.  The goal is to move them completely to self-sufficiency or to an exemption category that will lead to them to the appropriate support services program.

SAIF was developed to create a safety net for those families and individuals who exhausted their five-year time limit on welfare (Work First New Jersey) and do not meet the criteria for an exemption to the time limit. (Exemptions are given to people who are permanently disabled, sole caretakers of a disabled dependent, chronically unemployable, over age 60, or victims of family violence.)  

The SAIF Program continues today to provide intensive care management to families to determine the reasons for them still needing to receive welfare benefits and acquaint them with support services that will assist them with every opportunity to successfully transition from welfare to work.  The SAIF intensive case managers (ICMs) two primary goals are: (1) to determine whether the SAIF participant is eligible for exemption from the WFNJ time limits and assist them in obtaining the exemption and any additional social services that are needed, and (2) work with the SAIF participants not eligible for exemption to leave public assistance and improve their quality of life.     

Our Success
The Gateway to Work offers linkages to jobs and support services that will provide a means to overcome barriers to successful employment and toward self-sufficiency. Gateway has completed a comprehensive study to determine the Return on Investment to the community when an individual is moved from welfare to work. For every dollar spent on delivering services, there is a 400 percent return on investment to the community, in terms of public spending avoided and taxes and income generated by participants in the program. Specifically, for every $1 spent on Gateway To Work, the program's Associates returned an average of $4.24 to the community in the form of wages earned, state and federal income taxes, social security taxes and sales taxes in addition to public spending avoided because participants no longer require welfare cash assistance, food stamps, general assistance and Medicaid.

For more information, please contact Jackie Andrews (973) 824-6484 or send an email to jandrews@newcommunity.org

New Community Mission
To help residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement.