CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
This two-day seminar will give employers and investigators an understanding of the tools needed to plan and conduct interviews, gather, organize and review different types of evidence, draw appropriate conclusions, document an investigation and make the right recommendations for actions.
In this seminar, participants will learn crucial interview techniques to gather appropriate and relevant information and how to recognize truthful and deceptive behavior. This seminar is interactive and involves group breakout sessions.
Where: Mid York Library System, 1600 Lincoln Ave., Utica, NY 13502
When: Sept. 11th at 8:30am and Sept 12th at 9:00am
TO REGISTER: E-mail
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, September 3, 2019
$145 per person - Advance Payment Required
Check and Credit Card payments accepted
Please make checks payable to “JSEC” or to arrange for a credit card payment email
Send payment to: CDO Workforce, Attention: JSEC, 12 Dietz St.,
Oneonta, NY 13820.
CANCELLATIONS are required by 4 p.m. on the Friday prior to the seminar. Reservations made and not kept may not be refunded. Substitutions are allowed.
Light Breakfast & Lunch Provided
National Disability Voter Registration Week (officially July 15th-July 19th) promotes community involvement and civic participation across the country with a focus on registering individuals with disabilities to vote.
The Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. (RCIL), in collaboration with Disability Rights New York (DRNY), is offering free community voter education and registration events in honor of National Disability Voter Registration Week. These events mark the anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which occurred on July 26, 1990. To learn more about these events, and dates and times, click here.
Five Things to Remember About Voting
13 Things Voters with a Disability Need to Know
Transportation to the Polls - Tips
Hiring Workers with Disabilities
This two-day seminar addresses different types of investigations and will give employers and investigators an understanding of the tools needed to plan and conduct interviews, gather, organize and review different types of evidence, draw appropriate conclusions, document an investigation and make the right recommendations for actions.
When: June 25th & June 26th
Where: MidYork Library System, 1600 Lincoln Ave., Utica, NY
To Register e-mail
Registration Deadline: Thursday, June 20, 2019
$145 per person | Advance Payment Required
Light Breakfast & Lunch Included
Check and Credit Card payments accepted.
Please make checks payable to “JSEC” or to arrange for a credit card payment email .
Send payment to: CDO Workforce, Attention: JSEC, 12 Dietz St., Oneonta, NY 13820.
Are you starting a business? Are you already in business and need an entrepreneurial “tune-up?” The Small Business Training Program is for you.
Learn from the experts how to build your idea into a profitable venture.
Classes take place on two (2) consecutive Wednesdays. Each session is a full day of classroom training beginning at 9:00 am and ending at 4:30 pm.
Both sessions are included in the price of $75.00. An SBDC Certificate of Completion will be awarded at the end of the 2nd session. This Certificate is a requirement of the Otsego County and City of Oneonta Microenterprise Grant Program. More importantly, you will walk away with valuable knowledge, ideas, motivation and resources.
When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Where: Otsego Now Offices
189 Main Street
5th Floor, Suite 500
Oneonta, NY 13820
When: June 17th—June 27th - Monday—Thursday each week-9am—5pm
Where: ATEC Lab on SUNY Delhi Campus
Combination of lecture and lab classes, approximately 50% theory and 50% hands on learning activities.
Topics:
Safety
Tools of the trade and their use
Finding and interpreting information in the National Electrical Code
Trade specific mathematics Drawing and interpreting schematic, wiring, and one-line diagrams
Ohm’s Law calculations involving current, voltage, power, and resistance in electrical circuits
Recognize appropriate wiring methods used in residential installations
Installation of single pole, three-way, and four-way switches
Installation of duplex receptacles
Installation of ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) receptacles
Installation of dryer and range receptacles
Call Maggie Gilbert at 607—832—5776 for more information.
All students who complete program will receive basic electrical tools, a professionalresume and job placement assistance.Tuition Assistance may be available. Must be 18 and older.
Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education.
