Workforce Development

  • The Job Resource Center
  • Training & Work Readiness Programs 
  • Youth Services/Employment/Mentoring/Volunteering

The Job Resource Center (JRC), has been helping local residents find and keep quality employment since 2000.  Situated in the Family Preservation Center, the JRC serves adults and young people, as well as *disconnected youth by utilizing a network of relationships with local businesses, institutions, and non-profits.  The Center posts weekly job openings and information about up-coming job fairs.   Our staff provides one-on-one counseling and follow-up support, placement and career development for our job search clients.  We offer a variety of workshops for resume building, interview skills, and work-related technology.  Presently, the Center spearheads a variety of certified training programs including Work Readiness, Administrative Assistance, Food Protection and Safety, Hospitality and Culinary Arts, Maintenance and Locksmithing.

Since 1994, the main focus of Youth Services has been to enhance possibilities for young people through providing workforce development and work readiness skills training, along with college exploration. Students receive valuable life skills training and benefits by participating in this program. They are exposed to the nature of positive thinking from the onset. We explore self-esteem issues and come up with creative ways of building self-confidence. We work to increase academic achievement and remove negative stereotypes around obtaining a quality education.  We explore viable career options with our students.  Youth Services also sees the rewards of facilitating inter-generational understanding with the help and involvement of parents or guardians and the importance of examining cultural and ethnic belief systems, ultimately fostering an environment of tolerance. 

Over the past three years, we have been working with the New York State Department of Labor, the NYC Workforce Investment Board and the NYC Human Resources Administration to expand our training programs.  The goal of each training is to provide a certifiable skill set that increases the participant’s employability in a particular career track, preferable a recession proof career.  We include Work Readiness Training as an introduction to the diverse workplace. Our current training tracks are: Custodial Maintenance, Locksmithing, Food Protection and Safety, Hospitality, Security Academy, Health Care, Administrative Assistance and Computer Services.

* Disconnected Youth are young people, typically between the ages of 16 to 24 who are out of school and out of the labor market. In the Bronx, their unemployment rate is at 30%.

Mission

From human services to housing development, from economic revitalization to community empowerment, all the programs and initiatives of the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council (MBSCC) are designed to accomplish the following goals:

  • To enhance the quality of life for residents of the South Bronx
  • To ensure they are afforded the opportunity for economic and social well-being that will enable them to remain in the community and live with dignity for themselves and their surroundings
  • To encourage them to become vocal, active and positive contributors to, and forces in their community

Services

News

Freedman on the Concourse Lodging Facility

Situated just 20 minutes from New York's Times Square, yet nestled on a scenic avenue with quiet elegance, this charming. ten room, guest house is the perfect escape after exploring the city's shops, museums and local parks.

Our delightful, 1920s themed lodging facility is conveniently located on the historic Grand Concourse in the Bronx, just minutes from Yankee Stadium. Enjoy beverages and light fare in our vintage speakeasy lounge. Play croquet and badminton on our expansive lawn, then retire comfortably to one of our elegantly restored bedrooms that boast en-suite baths. Soak in a relaxing tub at the end of your day’s adventures.  Join us each morning for a delicious, continental breakfast before heading off once again. Our lodge is part of the Andrew Freedman Complex Residential Integrated Culinary & Hospitality (RICH) Initiative, specifically designed to increase employability in the neighborhood by professionally training and certifying participants in the hospitality and culinary trades. So come stay with us for a modest price and empower community residents at the same time!

Freedman on the Concourse Lodging Facility
1125 GRAND CONCOURSE
BRONX, NY 10452 

This Side of Paradise

Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council (MBSCC), one of the leading, not-for-profit, community development organizations in the Bronx recently hosted the exciting art exhibition, This Side of Paradise at the majestic Andrew Freedman on the Grand Concourse. The innovative show was curated by the art group, No Longer Empty and it showcased the works of 32 artists on the first and second floors of the palatial Andrew Freedman. Interactive, community-driven programming, panel discussions and electric dance performances rounded out this creative collaboration which ran through June 5th.

Stay tuned for our next artistic production coming this Fall!

900 Grand Concourse - Bronx, NY

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"When the founders of Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council first came together in the early 1970s, it seemed as if everyone believed it was possible to change the world, and necessary.  We certainly believed it!  We were a diverse group of activists - parents, social workers, business people, representatives from many different faith-based institutions and from many different ethnic groups.  We understood that there was a lot of work that needed to be done.  Our response was to roll up our sleeves and do it."

Jeanette Puryear, President & CEO
Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council

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