Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance, Inc

Centre For Women, located in Tampa, Fla., is a nonprofit community. It offers a wide range of services for people of all ages. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors and is supported by other nonprofit agencies and grants from private and corporate foundations. Its staff includes licensed clinicians, degreed professionals, technicians and specialists. The community provides outpatients substance abuse treatment. It also offers various employment services, such as career planning, counseling, life management classes, job coaching, resume preparation, development workshops, interviewing techniques, and divorce and widow support groups. Additionally, the Centre For Women helps senior citizens by providing assistance with living conditions, nutrition and relational needs. It provides emergency home repairs for low-income elderly homeowners. Its services include carpentry, weatherization, plumbing repairs, wheelchair ramps and handicap retrofits and roof repairs and replacement.

MacDonald Training Center was founded in 1955 by J. Clifford MacDonald and a group of parents of individuals with developmental disabilities. It was one of the first organizations to develop supported employment and living services as alternatives to sheltered workshops and traditional group homes for the people with disabilities. Its members participate in a variety of career service tracks and activities, including work experience, on-site service teams, and life enrichment, enhanced and senior services. The center provides training and oversight to direct support staff responsible for its member s medication administration, acute and emergency evaluation, and nursing care to individuals within the center, and liaison services between the individual, families and health care providers. MacDonald Training Center also offers employment services, including skills training, resume preparation, job development, mock interview sessions, job fairs and placements, and employer consultation. The center is headquartered in Tampa, Fla.