African Heritage and employment Services strives to avert homelessness among low-income youth and families by offering application assistance, counseling, and various housing stabilization services. Our comprehensive approach aims to prevent evictions, home losses, and homelessness, supporting individuals in rebuilding their lives and maintaining housing stability. Recognizing the heightened vulnerability of immigrants and refugees, compounded by Washington’s high cost of living, we acknowledge the importance of securing stable housing and well-paying jobs to ensure economic stability for the communities in South King County and Seattle
AHES Support and provide job search assistance, including personal interviews, job club / networking events, study sessions, resume, interview preparations, mock interviews with apprenticeship and application assistances, client referral with network partners.
To understand other cultures, you have to understand your own culture. Learn how culture shapes your mindset and therefore influences your behavior. Cross-cultural training courses often start with an exercise that places participants on any number of cultural values. Coaching is not advice-giving or problem-solving; that’s consulting. It’s not diagnosing or treating a person’s mental state; that’s psychiatry. It’s not about digging into the past to explain current behaviors; that’s psychology. The coaching client is creative, resourceful, and that is African Heritage and Employment Services stands when it comes Cultural and Heritage Services.
African Heritage and Employment services assists those in need by offering access to computers and the internet, coupled with tech support and digital literacy training. Our mission is to empower individuals, enabling them to leverage these tools effectively in pursuit of their educational, employment, and broader life goals. We provide Digital literacy for teaching our clients how to use Computers, Fax, Emails, social media, etc.
African Heritage and Employment Services Assists immigrant and refugee youth. Our program facilitates the discovery of employment, skills training, and educational avenues through thorough mentorship and employment support. Participants gain, skills training, and educational services, ensure a pathway for school to life success. Our culturally responsive approach and mentorship actively intervene in the school-to-prison pipeline by linking youth to vital systems, community resources, and sustainable employment opportunities. This is achieved through individualized case management and mentoring conducted in their native language.
Provide limited English Proficiency, including crisis support or referrals, career counseling, review of eligibility for services, and routine/special personal appointments or group meetings.
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