Job connection SERVICES
Goodwill Houston is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals, families and communities by providing training, education and job-related services to people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. Goodwill's Job Connection Centers serve individuals who are unemployed or underemployed and are ready, willing and able to be productive citizens in meaningful, self-fulfilling jobs.
Job Connection Centers
River Oaks
2030 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098Midtown Terrace
4640 Main St.
Houston, TX 77002Meyerland
9606 Hillcroft
Houston, TX 77096Richmond
3000 Richmond
Houston, TX 77098
Goodwill Houston’s
Academy of Career Development
(DARS, Worksource Solution approved)
713-699-6311
River Oaks
2030 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
Licensed by the Texas Workforce Commission, Career Schools and Colleges, Goodwill Houston’s Academy of Career Development lets you learn at your own pace in a personalized environment as our instructors help you prepare for work in the clerical, financial services and customer service fields. Sign up for courses in general office skills, Microsoft Office, customer service, and accounting and bookkeeping. Scholarships available.
Project Good Hope
713-699-6731
River Oaks
2030 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
Project Good Hope finds jobs for people who are HIV positive (or live in a household with someone who is) and have a household income less than 80 percent of the area median. Our goal is to provide clients with a one-stop approach to case management, counseling, legal services, referrals, vocational training, life skills training, work readiness training, job search assistance, on-the-job assistance and supportive services, such as transportation and clothing.
Aging Workers Initiative
713-636-9684
3000 Richmond,
Suite 355
Houston, Texas 77098
Aging Worker Initiative (AWI) provides employment and career development services to displaced workers age 55 and over. Support continuing education and vocational training in high-growth, high-demand industries and to increase the public workforce system’s capacity to effectively serve an aging worker population..
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
713-699-6351
Midtown Terrace
4640 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
Partnering with the United States Veterans Initiative-Houston, we provide veterans with job readiness vocational training and placement. By finding veterans stable employment, we help to break the cycle of homelessness for many veterans and successfully reintegrate them back into mainstream society.
Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP)
713-699-6351
Midtown Terrace
4640 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
Partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans' Workforce Investment Program (VWIP), this program is specifically targeted at "recently separated" veterans who have left the service in the last 48 months - including those returning from tours of duty and Iraq and Afghanistan to a difficult job market. Emphasis is placed on training veterans who are interested in "green jobs" now in the marketplace or expected soon.
Incarcerated Veterans Training Program
713-699-6352
Midtown Terrace
4640 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
Incarcerated Veterans Training Program (IVTP) provides employment services to veterans who are currently incarcerated and within 18 months of releases, or have been released from incarceration in the last 6 months.
Veterans Outreach and Employment Services
713-636-9684
3000 Richmond,
Suite 355
Houston, Texas 77098
Veterans Outreach and Employment Services (VOES) provides services to veterans of the First and Second Gulf Wars (including Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom)and their spouses and dependent children.
Female Veteran and Veterans with Families Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
713-636-9684
3000 Richmond,
Suite 355
Houston, Texas 77098
Female Veteran and Veterans with Families Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (FHVRP) provides employment services to homeless veterans who are female and / or custodial parents of minor children.
Community Rehabilitation Services
(DARS, Ticket to Work approved)
713-721-8000
Meyerland
9606 Hillcroft, Houston, TX 77096
Ticket to Work
Goodwill Houston is an approved Employment Network (EN) provider that participates in the Ticket to Work Program. Eligible Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries with disabilities who receive a Ticket to Work can obtain employment and vocational rehabilitation services, or other employment support services from Goodwill Houston's Job Connection Centers.
Employment Support Services
Goodwill Houston offers services leading to supported employment for individuals who have most significant disabilities and for whom competitive employment has occurred, or has been interrupted or intermittant as a result of a significant disability. These services require a referral from the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS):
- Client and family orientation
- Transportation training
- Job placement
- Job skills training
- Job stabilization services that may include
- On-the-job training
- Job coaching
Youth Summer Jobs (YSJ)
713-721-8000
Meyerland
9606 Hillcroft, Houston, TX 77096
The Youth Summer Jobs program provides subsidized summer employment for disadvantaged youth ages 14 to 24 at participating non-profits agencies and companies.