Outreach-Center For Community Resources

Outreach's lead center, the workforce development program, provides support and service to job seekers in multiple categories. Outreach provided workforce development services to 290 individuals in fye 24-25. Outreach partnered with 260 employers through our weekly job postings. 65% of the eligible participants gained stable employment. One pathway to employment is increased education. Outreach's ged program provided subject-specific tutoring to over 100 community participants. Seventy-five percent of participants passed at least one section of the ged exams. Participants take an average of 240 hours of tutoring to achieve completion.

Court-related and re-entry programs encompass a range of services, starting with assessment. 65% of residents completed the required work to earn certificates demonstrating their participation and learning through various courses provided by outreach at lackawanna county prison (lcp). Outreach served 271 men, 91 women, 29 juveniles, and 20 veterans through our prison reentry services. Classes include life skills, parenting, financial literacy, employment readiness, and other relevant topics. Outreach provides mentoring services to individuals in treatment court, and outreach leads the pardon project hub of lackawanna county.

Outreach's growing youth & young adult program provided services to 106 youth in the 2024-2025 year. These services focused on three primary target audiences: older youth in foster care, justice-involved youth, and a summer program targeting children from a low-income housing complex in the city of scranton. Outreach helped these youth overcome barriers to successful transitions into adulthood, reducing their recidivism rates and providing much-needed support and education in areas such as life skills, education, job training, and community reintegration. Our summer skyview program focused on steam (science, technology, english, art, and math) served 22 children in the summer and after-school program. This program helps mitigate summer slide and introduces students to steam-related learning, inspiring them to dream of brighter futures and envision themselves in positive, stable roles as adults.