About
Us
increasing
your effectieness and your joy as you serve!
WorkNet
Solutions: Your Success Partner
WorkNet
Solutions is the sole provider of WorkNet Model-based training
and tools in the U.S. We exist to increase the effectiveness
and joy of organizations that provide employment and career
services. We have a special passion and proven talent for
helping better serve people with significant employment barriers.
We offer:
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: Consultation
for program design & improvement
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Training & Tools for your professional
development
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Tools for use with job seekers,
and for group faciliation
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Keynote addresses
Our customers include government, non-government and faith-based
organizations that help adults and youth transition into the
workforce from difficulties such as recent lay-off, long-term
unemployment, injury or disability, government dependence,
addiction, homelessness, mental illness, prison, and poverty,
as well as those transitioning from the military, education,
training, or parenting. For specifics, see Where Is WorkNet
Working?
Elisabeth H. Sanders-Park
Author
| Speaker | President | Tough Career Transition Expert
Elisabeth
is the President of WorkNet Solutions. She has
a passion and proven talent for help you taking career development
to people at all levels, especially those with significant
barriers. For more than a decade, she has influenced the field
of career development as a career professional, the President
of WorkNet Solutions, a highly-sought trainer, and author
of more than 50 tools used by programs across the U.S.In the
last decade, she has trained more than 20,000 employment/career
professionals, impacting nearly a million lives across the
globe.
Elisabeth
has been recognized for her contribution to the field by the
Association for Job Search Training, was a regular PDI speaker
at the International
Career Development Conference, is the 'Working with Difficult
Clients' columnist for the NETWORK Newsletter, and is the
resident 'Tough Career Transitions' expert for the Career
Thought Leaders Consortium.
She is co-author of the proven WorkNet Model of Career
Development & Job Placement for People with Barriers,
and No One Is Unemployable, hailed a "Top 10
Career Book of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times.She
is a Certified Workforce Development Professional, and Certified
Job & Career Transition Coach, and holds degrees in International
Studies, English and Spanish from Azusa Pacific University
in California.
Elisabeth
is a fully-devoted follower of Jesus Christ, and this is her
personal ministry. She is happily married to a wonderful man.
They have three delightful children and live on the east coast.
The
WorkNet Model:
Career
Development & Job Placement for People with Barriers
More
than 20 years of front-line research has gone into developing
the WorkNet Model. The
goal of the WorkNet Model is to help people to begin and succeed
in careers that lead to career success and satisfaction, with
a special focus on helping people with significant barriers
to sustain positive life change, maintain economic self-sufficiency,
and become career resilient. The
model covers the entire career development process, from
candidate engagement and motivation, through career planning,
overcoming barriers and preparing for suscces in the business
culture, to placement and career success mentoring for retnetionand
advancemen
As
a model of Career Development, the focus is not merely job
placement and retention, but on long-term, sustainable economic
self-sufficiency, as well as career success and satisfaction.
As a model of Job Placement, extensive focus and support is
also given to candidates as they market themselves to employers
who offer their career path. The result is an employee with
a better attitude who learns quicker and works harder, and
a community member whose career clarity and know-how allows
them to be career resilient throughout their working life,
making them more valuable to employers and able to maintain
self-sufficiency and career success.
For
details on the model distinctions, objectives andproven success,
see The WorkNet Model Overview.
The
WorkNet Story
In
1984, in Pasadena , CA World Vision established the first
program of their National Employment Initiative (NEI). The
goal of Foothill Jobs was job placement for unemployed
people who face barriers. It became World Vision's NEI training
mechanism and helped establish programs across the U.S. until
the early 1990s. Beginning in 1987, under the innovative leadership
of Debra Angel, Foothill Jobs became its own non-profit organization.
Its name changed to WorkNet Services and its focus
changed from mere job placement to helping people begin and
succeed in careers using the idea of career development. WorkNet
Services is the frontline program where the WorkNet Model
was initially developed, tested and proven. It served as the
employment entity for more than a dozen local stabilizing
agencies, including the largest provider of homeless services
and mental health care in the San Gabriel Valley , domestic
violence shelters, two rescue missions, and programs moving
people from welfare and poverty into the workforce. In this
challenging environment, prior to federal welfare-to-work
legislation and the Workforce Investment Act, in a job market
and economy struggling from the loss of the aerospace industry
in southern CA, serving people with significant barriers,
WorkNet Services produced impressive results in placement,
but especially in retention and advancement. It began getting
requests to establish WorkNet programs in rescue missions
and stabilizing agencies across the U.S.
In
1995, WorkNet Training & Publications, Inc. was
created to respond to this demand full-time, and the frontline
work of WorkNet Services was undertaken by The Union Station
Foundation where it continues via the Sources Program
in Pasadena. Until 2003, WorkNet Training & Publications,
Inc. provided program design and consultation services, staffing
training, and job seeker curriculum to employment programs
across the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and England. During
this time, Debra and Elisabeth authored their highly-acclaimed
“No One Is Unemployable,” which has been named a “Top 10 Career
Book of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times and Joyce Lain
Kennedy, the nation's foremost careers columnist. In 2003,
Debra established WorkNet International and WorkNet Publications
to lead the work of WorkNet across the globe, and Elisabeth
established WorkNet Solutions to lead our work in
the U.S.
Today,
WorkNet Model programs exist at the Atlanta Union Mission,
Twin Cities Rescue Ministries, Houston Star of Hope, Salvation
Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers across the western U.S.,
more than 100 SAEP locations in Australia and New Zealand,
throughout the Careers Scotland system, and in other organizations
across the globe.
WorkNet
Charities
WorkNet
Charities (WNC) is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization which
exists to support non-profit Christian agencies in establishing
or improving WorkNet Model-based career development services
as part of their ministry. WNC understands that people are
created with talent and passions by a God who loves them and
has a plan for their lives, and that God uses work to develop
those talents and passions, and to allow people to glorify
Him, and minister to the world. The WorkNet Model of Career
Development for people with Barriers is developed by Christians,
and based on Biblical and Christian principles. WNC relies
on this model to support Christian ministries in establishing
and improving their employment services.
To
donate funds, services or resources, or to request support,
contact us at worknetcharity@aol.com or 714-318-3698.
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