Mission
- Provide
quality skills training programs and services;
- Manage
the OIC Program effectively and efficiently;
- Enhance
and diversify service capability.
Philosophy
Underlying
this mission is the OIC's philosophy that growth and development
will be enhanced through everyday practice of essential beliefs
and purposes:
- Every
person has dignity, and this should not be violated;
- OIC
screens people in, not out;
- Classes
are open entry / open exit;
- Instruction
is trainee-centered and individualized;
- Training
goals are career-oriented.
In
addition to improving the quality of life for the disadvantaged,
OIC has made a powerful economic impact in taxes paid, and unemployment
and welfare payments saved. In 1989, a study by the Sun Company,
Inc. estimated the one million individuals who received OIC services
produced more than $150 billion in earning for the U.S. economy.
Because these one million individuals had joined the workforce,
they generated $22 billion in taxes and saved taxpayers $35 billion
in welfare payment.
Thanks
to generous and active support of corporate partners, OIC has benefited
from financial and in-kind support, as well as effective leadership.
Organizations
Qualifications
The
new Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington, DC (OIC/DC)
was organized in 1999. With leadership from business, the faith-based
community, community organizations and the private sectors, OIC/DC
has been organized based on the principles and experience of the
National OIC movement founded by Rev. Leon H. Sullivan in Philadelphia,
PA in 1964. OIC/DC will educate, train, motivate and support at-risk
youth and disadvantaged adults to take control of their lives, build
education skills and work-related competencies and enter the mainstream
workforce on the road to self-sufficiency.
The
new Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington, DC is
lead by Board Chairman, Rev. Carlton Veazey and F. Alexis H. Roberson,
formerly the Director of the District of Columbia's Department of
Employment Services who has dedicated her life to preparing
youth and adults for employment and improving the opportunities
for residents of the District of Columbia.
The
new Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington, DC (OIC/DC)
has embraced the mission and philosophy of the OIC movement. It
will in time, deploy the comprehensive OIC model that motivates
people to learn to read and write, motivates them to learn a skill,
and get a job which enables them to become self-sufficient. The
Feeder (job readiness training) program is the heart and soul of
OIC of America and the new Opportunities Industrialization Center
of Washington, DC (OIC/DC) began it's model with Project Y.COM (Youth
Communications of the Mind.. Project Y.COM currently has 92 youth
enrolled in the program.
OIC
's, across the country, have an outstanding track record in training
and placing adults and youth on jobs in a variety of occupations,
including but not limited to: construction trades; office practices
for secretaries and general clerks with MOUS training; computer
repair with A+ certification; retail sales with cashiering and sales
training; automobile repair, printing/ publications; radio production;
safety and security. All occupational training is integrated with
job readiness skills, basic education or GED preparation. At OIC,
occupational training is tailored to meet the requirements of the
employer.
Lastly,
OIC is well known and respected in the Washington community, including
the business, religious, political, government, and education communities.
Many residents in the community trust and depend on OIC to help
them make their lives better.
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