ACCESS NYC
ACCESS NYC is a web-based initiative that promotes self sufficiency among low-income New Yorkers by providing greater access to work supports offered by the City, State, and Federal government agencies.

Advance at Work (Career Advancement Program)
Based from MDRC's Work Support and Advancement Center model, the Career Advancement Program reduces poverty and increases income for low-wage workers through job upgrades, access to work support and asset building activities.

City Hiring Initiatives (PDF)
This initiative helps cash assistance recipients obtain eligible, entry-level City agency and contracted positions.  This project has had limited benefits because of diminished City hiring and agency staff have efforts on the Employer Outreach project.

Community Partners (CBO Outreach)
The Community Based Organization Outreach Initiative creates "Community Outreach Teams" who works with local community-based organizations to refer clients to the City's Workforce1 Career Centers

Employer Outreach Initiative
The Employer Outreach Initiative works with employers to place cash assistance recipients.

Employment Works
The Employment Works initiative coordinates programming among public workforce system, the NYC Department of Probation, and workforce development providers to increase the number of probationers connected to jobs that lead to economic self-sufficiency.

Enhance 311 Health and Human Services Language Access Outreach
In order to increase awareness about the health and human services that are accessible through 311, this initiative uses multilingual marketing and outreach marketing to reach low-income limited English proficient New Yorkers.

Food Handlers Training
This initiative certifies Rikers Island inmates as food handlers, providing them with a tangible employment asset for re-entry.

Nurse Career Ladder Program: LPN
This initiative is an eleven-month Licensed Practical Nurse program for low-income students and Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) employees. Program graduates are placed in HHC positions earning over $40,000 per year.

Nurse Career Ladder Program: RN
This initiative is a subsidized four year program leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing.  Program graduates will be offered RN positions at Health and Hospital Corporation, with starting salaries of over $60,000 per year.

NYC Business Solutions Training Funds
Expands the Business Solutions Training Fund program to help businesses train, retain, and promote their employees.  The newly expanded program gives businesses the opportunity to apply for grants to provide a range of training to their employees, including contextualized literacy, English as a Second Language (ESL), job readiness, and occupational training.

NYC Training Guide
The NYC Training Guide is a web-based service that will match job seekers with appropriate training programs to promote skills building and career advancement. This directory, which is the first comprehensive listing of NYC training programs, will also include participant ratings and completion rates so that consumers can assess program quality. 

Office of Financial Empowerment
Housed in the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs, the Office of Financial Empowerment if the first municipal office designed to educate, empower, and protect low-income New Yorkers and help them to make the best of their financial resources.

Sector-Focused Career Centers
The Sector-Focused Career Center creates a new type of job placement and training center that focuses its services on a single economic sector.  The center will meet the needs specific to businesses within the sector as well as provide low-income workers with access to good jobs with career advancement opportunities.