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Who We Are

The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. Our highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for a successful transition to a stable, productive life.

Social Outcomes

Social Outcomes

CEO not only strives to provide quality service to our clients, but we also carefully track our impact to constantly improve our performance. CEO believes that there are three critical types of evidence that need to be collected to inform our program and outcomes:

Community Benefits
CEO work crews help maintain some of our finest and most heavily used public institutions. From Court Houses in New York City, to treasured parkland in Western New York, every day more than 250 participants are helping preserve and beautify communities, neighborhoods and vital government infrastructure. Learn more here.
Employers

Services for Employers

As an employer, you need reliable and dependable workers. The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) can provide full-time employees at no cost to you. We offer a full human resources team to ensure that our pool of workers is trained, ready and matched to your specifications.

Participants

Services for Participants

“Even if you did something bad, you can always change your life. And that is what I did.”

-Michael Miller, Employed at Prime Burger

Events

Exhibit Opening

We had a great opening of Released with Conviction: The Exhibit at CultureFix in the Lower East Side.  Read More ››

Family Day Picnic

Every year, CEO celebrates the fathers in our program by throwing a picnic in the beautiful Pelham Bay Park. Read More ››

Retention Dinner

This year’s Retention Dinner was a great evening filled with great food, laughter and wonderful stories that were shared. Read More ››