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The City of Austin invites all individuals 50 years old and up to join their community job fair Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The 50+ Community Job Fair hosted by the City of Austin will provide community members with opportunities to meet multiple City of Austin departments and employers.
The job fair will take place Wednesday Sept. 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Workforce Solutions Capital Area North building.
Workforce Solutions, which is part of the Texas Workforce Commission, provides workers with professional development and child care assistance. According to the agency, it served more than 4,900 children in 2023, including at licensed centers and homes.
Still, it had over 5,000 children on its waitlist as of July, Lawson said. Roughly 40% of the waitlist was comprised of children under the age of three, indicating a higher demand for child care for infants and toddlers. In a survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 55% of parents who voluntarily left their jobs did so when their kids were two years old or younger.
For Tamara, workforce development is personal. When she moved back to Austin in 1999 (after attending undergrad at The University of Texas), she had only $800 in her bank account, temporary housing and a baby with life-threatening health problems. Tamara needed a job to help her survive. The first company that gave her a chance was Workforce Solutions Capital Area (formerly WorkSource). The opportunity at Workforce Solutions Capital Area, the nonprofit responsible for the data-driven planning, oversight, and evaluation of workforce development activities in Austin-Travis County, changed the trajectory of her life.
Around two dozen people experiencing homelessness will soon have the opportunity to become certified in heating and air conditioning maintenance through free training offered by Austin Community College (ACC).
The training is the result of a partnership between ACC and Urban Alchemy, the nonprofit that manages the ARCH and 8th Street shelters. Twenty-five people living at those shelters will be able to participate in the HVAC training program.
According to Urban Alchemy, two representatives for ACC approached the ARCH eight months ago to start the program. After much collaboration between the shelter, Workforce Solutions and ACC, the free program is expected to launch this month.
There are thousands of jobs in fields like construction, transportation and utilities that need to be filled in Central Texas.
Pflugerville Public Library hopes to chip away at that number through its new online platform called Blue Career.
According to Workforce Solutions Capital Area, this area will need about 10,000 more workers annually to deliver on various projects in the works.
As the demand for anesthesia services grows across Texas, there’s a new program in Central Texas aiming to get more nurses specialized in that area.
Fairfield University expanded its nurse anesthesia program to Austin.
The university is based in Fairfield, Connecticut. However, it expanded to Austin to address the growing need for more certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) within the state.
Not far from the trucks rumbling down U.S. 183, in front of the tidy rows of colorful cabins that provide shelter for the present, a tall blue building at the gateway to the Esperanza Community stands for something else.
The future.
Next month, the first 30 students will file into this building, all Esperanza residents eager to learn well-paying trade skills that will be their path out of homelessness. Half will pursue certification as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC, technicians. The other half will pursue certification as auto mechanics.
Food insecurity is rising sharply in Travis County, with the number of Austin area residents who struggle to afford food expected to continue rising in the coming years absent interventions from both local and federal governments.
At a conference at the Austin Area Research Organization in December, Workforce Solutions CEO Tamara Atkinson told Vatske that her organization was moving out of its building and was looking for a new home. Within just a few months, the two organizations were moving towards a deal to bring their services under the same roof at the food bank headquarters on Montopolis Drive in Southeast Austin. For the food bank, which has long sought to provide or facilitate the provision of wraparound services like culinary and warehouse training programs to its clients, connecting with an organization like Workforce Solutions made sense as a means of addressing food insecurity.
Two organizations are coming together to better serve the Austin community. Wednesday, the Central Texas Food Bank and Workforce Solutions Capital Area announced their partnership, which aims to create a one-stop-shop for members to get their food and job needs.
Being unemployed and needing help putting food on the table often go hand-in-hand. Now, people can get help with both at the Central Texas Food Bank headquarters.
“We’re bringing staff resources right here co-located with the Central Texas Food Bank to bring workforce, job training services to customers that also receive services from the food bank,” Workforce Solutions Capital Area CEO Tamara Atkinson said.
The Central Texas Food Bank is partnering with Workforce Solutions Capital Area to create a one-stop shop for community members to receive food and job assistance services.
Both services will now be provided under one roof at the Central Texas Food Bank headquarters on Metropolis Drive. This comes as Travis County sees an increase in demand for these types of services.
Sari Vatske, the CEO and President of the Central Texas Food Bank, said last year the food bank nearly saw 178,000 food insecure individuals and is anticipating about 208,000 people to go through their doors this year. That demand can be attributed to population growth and the high cost of living.