The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides activities that increase employment, retention, earnings, and skills in the American workforce. C.E.F.S. is part of the fourteen-county Illinois Local Workforce Area #23 which receives its funding from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity through the Crossroads Workforce Investment Board.
Customers through our adult and dislocated worker programs are able to easily receive a preliminary assessment of their skill levels, aptitudes, abilities, and support service needs. They also obtain information on a full array of employment-related services, including information about local education and training service providers. At each of our centers the public can receive help filing claims for unemployment insurance and evaluating eligibility for job training and education programs or student financial aid. We also offer job search and placement assistance, career counseling, and up-to-date labor market information which identifies job vacancies, skills necessary for in-demand jobs, and provides information about local, regional and national employment trends.
Through the Crossroads Workforce Centers, employers have a single point of contact in their community to provide information about current and future skills needed by their workers and to list job openings. They benefit from a single system for finding job-ready skilled workers who meet their needs.
Program services include job search and placement assistance (including career counseling), labor market information (which identifies job vacancies, skills needed for in-demand jobs, and local, regional and national employment trends), initial assessment of skills and needs, information about available services, and some follow-up services to help customers keep their jobs once they are placed. People who need more intensive help to become employed can receive more comprehensive assessments, development of individual employment plans, group and individual counseling, case management, and short-term pre-vocational services. In cases where qualified customers receive intensive services, and are still not able to find jobs, they may receive training services which are directly linked to job opportunities in their local area. These services may include occupational skills training, on-the-job training, entrepreneurial training, skill upgrading, job readiness training, and adult education and literacy activities in conjunction with other training.
Under our special WIA Youth Program we offer young people job experiences and training.
at the Centralia CWC:
325 South Poplar, Centralia, IL 62801
(618) 545-3250
at the Effingham CWC:
2311 Hoffman Drive, Effingham, IL 62401
(217) 342-4382 Ext. 231
at the Mattoon CWC:
305 Richmond Avenue East, Mattoon, IL 61938
(217) 235-2222 Ext. 8235
at the Olney CWC:
214 East Main Street, Olney, IL 62450
(618) 392-7777
in Clay County at
122 North Main, Flora, IL 62839
(618) 662-7134
in Crawford County at
301 S. Cross Street, Room 283, Robinson, IL 62454
(618) 544-3858
in Douglas County at
107 W. South Central, Tuscola, IL 61953
(217) 253-4151
in Fayette County at
517 W. Gallatin, Vandalia, IL 62471
(618) 283-2780
in Lawrence County at
1113 S. 15th Street, Lawrenceville, IL 62439
(618) 943-4442
In Moultrie County at
114 East Harrison, Sullivan, IL 61951
(217) 728-7721