Comprehensive Integrated Employment Services (CIES)
CIES Online Program
Valley Opportunity Council’s Comprehensive Integrated Employment Services (CIES) Program, funded by the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), provides adults who are receiving DTA cash benefits themselves or for a child with the supports needed to improve their workforce readiness, access training and ultimately get a job that pays a family-sustaining wage. The Employment Advisor conducts a comprehensive assessment to determine each individual's needs.
Participants then take workshops and receive coaching, led by the Employment Advisor, to help them to acquire the skills and confidence they need to be successful in training and employment. Participants can access all of VOC services that they are eligible for including but not limited to childcare, Adult Education, WIC, and Fuel Assistance.
Through a partnership with the United Tractor Trailer Training School (UTTTS) participants can earn a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) at no charge to the participant. UTTTS provides courses in English and Spanish and also provides job coaching with a 100% placement rate upon graduation.
Other trainings available: Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA).
VOC-Adult Education
VOC offers over 30 community programs in a wide variety of areas throughout Hampden County in Western Massachusetts.
VOC and our correspondences are funded with a variety of sources that includes Federal Funds from various departments of the US Health and Human Services, including the Office of Community Services, which are not responsible for or endorse any of the content here.
