Employ Milwaukee expands its reach, opens new resource center on city’s south side

MILWAUKEE — Make use of Milwaukee is increasing its attain. On Monday, there was a ribbon slicing for Make use of Milwaukee’s new satellite tv for pc location on town’s south facet.

“Properly, Make use of Milwaukee does present a number of assets and I really feel it’s going to assist us as shoppers study extra,” mentioned Elizabeth Deja, a neighborhood mom.

For folks like Deja, the brand new heart may very well be a game-changer for all mothers searching for alternatives within the workforce.

“It helped me with housing assets, psychological well being assets and the whole lot down these traces,” she mentioned.

The brand new location on 57th and Oklahoma places Make use of Milwaukee, a workforce growth board, in partnership with Bellies and Babees, a neighborhood being pregnant care heart.

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“The folks we actually must get into our applications, the individuals who want us probably the most weren’t the folks coming into our doorways,” mentioned Chytania Brown, CEO of Make use of Milwaukee.

“By having Make use of Milwaukee right here now will give us the additional enhance, will give us extra resume constructing abilities, entry to jobs and on the spot interviews,” added Melinda Wilcox, Co-Director of Bellies and Babees.

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The brand new partnership comes because the nation sees an unemployment fee of about 3.6 %. Wisconsin sits decrease than that with 2.8 %. Milwaukee County has the next unemployment fee than each at 4.3 %.

Make use of Milwaukee says this can be a purpose to maintain working throughout the group.

“There’s all the time a narrative behind the numbers and whenever you go a bit deeper, we nonetheless have these pockets of excessive unemployment for sure zip codes,” Brown mentioned.

This web site marks Make use of Milwaukee’s third group primarily based extension of it’s workforce companies and so they plan to create extra.

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