Announcements/News
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01/3/08- Buffalo Employment
and Training Center - Youth
Services Report for 2007 Summer
Youth Program is
released.
Read Full Report.
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10/12/07 - Business First
Article titled " Helping Fill
the Jobs" -
articles about
the services provided to
employers by the WIB and Buffalo
Employment and Training Center. Read
Full Article
• 12/6/06--
A quality of life program
designed to clean up Buffalo's
neighborhoods has removed enough
garbage this year to fill about
five city dump trucks.
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2/22/05 -- Newly elected
Congressman from New York
State's 27th Congressional
District, Brian M. Higgins
visited the Buffalo Employment
and Training Center (BETC)...
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1/30/05 --
A small bell hangs on the wall
inside the Buffalo Employment
and Training Center, and each
time it rings it’s good news. Someone got a job. And last year, that bell rang
quite a few times.
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12/8/04 --
During the
last several years, our Centers
(BETC and YO) here in Buffalo
have been a must see for
visitors from Russia and Poland,
as part of a visitor’s program
sponsored by the United States
Department of State.
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10/18/04 --
As a journalism student at St. Bonaventure in the
1970s, Joe Sullivan learned all about interview and
research techniques. Though he never went into the field, he's made
good use of those techniques in the workforce
training field, including the last five as placement
services manager at the Buffalo Employment &
Training Center, one of two one-stop centers
operated by the Buffalo & Erie County Workforce
Investment Board.
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10/15/04 --
As a result of New Era Cap Company closing its
Buffalo factory, up to 230 workers are now looking
for new employment. In an effort to help link these
laid off workers with new job opportunities, BETC
and WDC’s Business Services Unit worked together to
coordinate a targeted Job Fair...
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9/28/04 --
Since opening our Center doors
in July of 2001, we have had
100,000 swipes at our front
door. The BETC was one of the
first One-Stop Centers in the
country to begin using the swipe
card technology...
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10/4/03 --
The largest
number of local job openings
heading into 2004 will be in the
retail and health care
industries, according to the
results of a recent survey by
the Buffalo Niagara
Partnership's Workforce
Development Council.
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8/20/03 --
...Once you hit the teen years, your parents are
more likely to be thinking about renting out your
room than opening their wallets to you. And despite
people telling you that you don't have to go out
to have fun, everyone knows that having a little
cash in your pocket doesn't hurt - especially with
college steadily approaching.
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8/13/03 --
Two-time Heavyweight Champion of the
World, ordained minister and author
George Foremen never finished a book
until he found Job Corps. Neither
did he aspire to the sport that made
him a legend.
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7/3/03 --
Bridget O'Brien
Wood presents Jeff Nixon with a
check for $58,500 from the
Buffalo Board of Education-Food
Service Department. These funds
have allowed the Buffalo Summer
Youth Employment Program to hire
an additional 50 Buffalo youth
who are assisting with the Free
Lunch Program at MLK Park,
Delaware Park, Riverside Park,
Cazenovia Park and Hennepin
Park. Participants are helping
with the distribution of lunches
and the provision of
recreational, educational and
cultural activities at each of
the parks. This is one of
several efforts by Buffalo
Employment and Training - Youth
Services to find additional
opportunities for Buffalo youth
to offset decreases in Federal
funds for summer youth
employment.
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5/5/03 -- BETC makes
One-Stop news. The Employment
and Training Reporter, a
national workforce publication,
discusses BETC's pioneering
efforts in swipe card systems
for workforce development.
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11/24/02 --
Rep. Jack
Quinn vowed Saturday to throw a
financial lifeline to as many as
17,000 Buffalo Niagara residents
whose unemployment benefits are
scheduled to end Dec. 28.
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11/21/02 --
James
Finamore, Executive Director of
the Buffalo and Eire County
Workforce Investment Board and
Salvatore LaGreca, Director of
the Buffalo and Erie County
Workforce Development
Consortium, jointly announced
today that the Buffalo & Eire
County Workforce Development
Consortium (WDC) has been
certified as a Workforce New
York agency by the New York
State Department of Labor
because of the comprehensive,
high-quality workforce
preparation resources and
services it provides to local
job seekers and businesses.
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11/19/02 -- Grover STEP
Program Participants received a
National Award from the American
Red Cross for their work with
disabled senior citizens living
on Buffalo's West Side. The
Program was funded by the Buffalo
Employment and Training Center.
11/7/02 -- Thank You
and Hope to See Everyone Again
Next Year.
The annual fall NYATEP
Conference held in Buffalo on
October 22nd. & 23 rd., was a
great success. We wish to thank
the New York Association of
Training and Employment
Professionals, New York State
Department of Labor, the State
University of New York and the
U.S. Department of Labor for
hosting the conference here. The
Buffalo Employment and Training
Center was pleased to be able to
provide daily tours of our
Center during the conference.
The many positive comments
regarding our facility and the
services we offer customers were
extremely gratifying. On behalf
of the staff at BETC and the
City of Buffalo, thank you and
hope to see everyone again next
year.
10/21/02 - 10/23/02 -- The Annual Fall Workforce New York Conference:
Workforce Investment: Reflect, Renew, Reauthorize
The Buffalo Employment and Training Center welcomes the New York Association of
Training and Employment Professionals, the New York State Department of Labor,
the State University of New York and the U.S. Department of Labor and all of the
attendees of the 2002 Fall Workforce New York Conference to Buffalo. While
you are here, we hope that you will take a tour of our one-stop Center. NYATEP will be accepting tour
reservations for October 22nd as
a part of the registration
process.
To check out what was presented, click here.
Summer 2002 -- Download the Buffalo
Employment and Training Services
2002 Youth Services Summer
Report
Click
here for report in .PDF format |
file size: 407 KB
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8/2/02 -- A summer jobs
program for youth has added a
new emphasis on academics, as
city officials team up with
Buffalo school officials to help
struggling students meet the
state's Regents exam
requirements.
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article...
7/3/02 -- Community agencies joined forces
with Buffalo leaders Tuesday to
pledge help for the city’s 281
high school seniors who were
barred from graduating after
failing the Math A Regents exam.
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article...
6/14/02 -- Five job
fairs being hosted by the New
York State Department of Labor
beginning next week will focus
attention on Buffalo's Empire
Zones and the people living
nearby.
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article...
3/23/02 -- The county met or
exceeded 11 of its 15
state-approved performance
goals under the first year of
the Buffalo and Erie County
Workforce Investment Program,
said James Finamore, executive
director of the Workforce
Investment Board.
Read full article...
The Buffalo Employment and Training Center is the premiere One-Stop Employment and Training agency in WNY. Our move in July of 2001 into a state of the art facility is located near the heart of downtown Buffalo in the former M-Wile natural light Factory.
The BETC Grand Opening on October 23rd, 2001 was a success on many levels, it showed the business community that the BETC is committed and capable of working with businesses to help them expand, grow, and facilitate new operations, it showed the job seeker that there is a hassle free environment to perform all of their job searching needs.
Our wide open spaces, 29 computer terminals, internet, fax machine, copy machine, phones, bond paper, and 19 workshops help the job seeking customer find the work that they are truly looking for.
Our 3 computer labs, job matching, and referral process help the business customer find the workers they are looking for.
Having trouble finding a babysitter or childcare, use our "Kids Place" newly opened Child Care facility. It is for customers who are using our facility and have a child 3 months to 7 years. It is available in 2 1/2 hour increments, and in case of emergency, the parent must be in the building.
The BETC has seen 4760 people come through our doors since July of 2001; each one has had a mission to find work, upgrade from a current position, upgrade their skills, and use the BETC to help themselves become successful.
Check out our calendar of workshops and breakfast clubs to see what is going on every month!
The 2002 Buffalo Summer Youth Employment Program has begun taking applications for this year's program. The deadline for submitting an application is May 29, 2002. The Program begins on July 1, 2002 and ends on August 22, 2002.
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