YWCA of Queens

Women to Work (WTW) focuses on job readiness training to help participants learn skills necessary to succeed in today’s job market. The program offers students basic computer lessons, workplace English, and job readiness training. The organization also provides information on financial literacy and worker’s rights to make sure students are aware of essential rules and regulations, as well as how to protect themselves against unfair practices. The program promotes economic empowerment of immigrant/low-income women and families.

WTW also offers an additional track that trains adults to become home health aides and places participants into jobs.  For more information, please see the Y Evergreen Care page.

Current offerings of WTW :

• Basic computer
• Job readiness (resume, cover letter, job interviews, etc.)
• Workplace English

Testimonial:

“I would like to thank the entire YWCA team for everything you’ve done for me this year.  For as long as I was with you, I found you extremely friendly, cooperative, helpful, and systematized.  I stumbled upon this place accidentally last spring.  Prior to that, I did not know that such a wonderful community existed in Flushing.  I am positive that if I had found this amazing establishment earlier, I would have had some college degree today.  My ESL teacher taught us everything we needed to know, from the rules of English grammar to our children’s PTA meetings.  Two years ago, I could have never imagined that I would be up here, delivering a speech that wasn’t my mother tongue but in the language that I was terrified to speak a word in.  Now, I am here delivering my speech as live proof of our teacher’s dynamically successful effort, for the courage she instilled in our hearts as well as in our mouths, and taught us to speak up.”

-Rukhsana Suhail