Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) launched its’ Buffalo site in 2009. CEO Buffalo has offered immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services exclusively to individuals who have recently returned home from incarceration. CEO’s program supports participants in gaining the workplace skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
Leon was recently working on a construction job in Buffalo, New York: A water main had burst in a residential neighborhood, and he and his fellow workers needed to replace it. “We had to dig five feet down into the dirt to find the water main and roughly a thousand ...
Advocates in New York for the formerly incarcerated are pushing for the passage of the Reentry Assistance Bill, which aims to provide more monetary support to people reentering society after being in prison.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tiffany Elder [email protected] Center for Employment Opportunities and NYS Building & Construction Trades Council Announce Collaboration on Grant from Governor Hochul's Office of Strategic Workforce Development Buffalo, NY — The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a leading nonprofit dedicated to supporting justice-impacted individuals, in partnership ...
Governor Kathy Hochul announced the New York State Office of Strategic Workforce Development has awarded more than $15.5 million in additional grants to support five projects across Upstate New York. Funding will help CEO to expand its successful construction pre-apprenticeship training for justice-impacted New Yorkers, increasing capacity in Buffalo, and ...
New York could give former inmates up to $2,550 after they leave prison under a pending bill meant to help them pay for food and rent while they seek jobs and stability. Advocacy groups backing the bill plan to rally at the Capitol in Albany on Monday to push for ...
On December 13, 2023, Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) celebrated two pre-apprenticeship graduations in both Buffalo and New York City. The classes are pathways to high-paying union careers in construction free of cost to justice-impacted individuals. Buffalo Graduation: "The Fabulous Five" In collaboration with the Buffalo & Niagara County Building ...
McClam was part of a recent Buffalo Niagara Partnership discussion about cultivating “hidden talent.” The speakers agreed that employers can find good people to hire, if they know where to look for them.
It wasn’t the eight months of military-style, intense shock incarceration that finally broke me; it was my parole officer. After my incarceration at Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility for non-violent offenders in Brocton, New York, I quickly realized I was living in constant fear of reincarceration. My parole officer had ...
