FWCA is a non-profit workforce development agency that has multiservice resources to leverage and assist customers on the pathway to self-sustainability. FWCA’s primary mission is to implement programs that set youth, adults and families on a pathway to sustainable careers, secondary education, or training by emphasizing preemployment skills and reality-based learning. An organizing principle of FWCA is to deliver integrated services that lead to family economic stability over the long term for customers irrespective of race, creed or color in the St. Louis region. FWCA utilizes an integrated service delivery (ISD) approach with workforce development services as its core strategy, while integrating financial, mental health and wellness, entrepreneurship, transportation, childcare, and legal services as a means of removing barriers to employment, education, and skills upgrade. FWCA has implemented the ISD approach for innovative workforce solutions and is nationally recognized as a premier workforce center in the nation.

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