4. On-the-Job Training

Who does it:
Not specified

What they do:
Congregants use their skills to assist with area business development or to teach others skills needed for employment.

Time commitment:
Variable.

Who they do it for and why:
They provide on-the-job training at congregant-owned businesses, hold job application and interviewing skills seminars at the temple or a central community location, and raise scholarship money to send worthy candidates to occupational school or college.

We would need:
¨ Someone to determine if such opportunities are presently provided in the Tulsa area. If so, do the sponsoring organizations need volunteers?
¨ Where no such opportunities presently exist, someone would need to determine how many unemployed or underemployed persons - both in the Jewish community and in the community at large - would benefit from such services. That information is probably available from social service agencies.
¨ One or more persons willing to assume leadership of the project and manage it.
¨ A pool of volunteers willing to undergo appropriate training, then to commit to participating in the program as their interests and the program's needs coincide.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in such a program, contact:
Jeanne Jacobs (phone: 747-1309, email timvp@templeisraeltulsa