Connect with The Partnership
Claudia Cattouse, Director of Community Innovations and Impact
The Partnership works with employers to recruit and place individuals in construction sector employment, administering construction trades initiatives that meet industry demand for training and apprenticeship programs with public agencies and private contractors. The Partnership works to ensure that women and people of color, who have traditionally been excluded from these unionized career opportunities with family-sustaining wages, have access to a career in this sector.
About Our Initiatives
The ConstructionWorks is an innovative program that assists men and women in entering careers in the heavy highway and related construction industry. The program creates a pool of diversified candidates ready to work, linking them to hiring construction contractors.
The ConstructionWorks program is funded by the Tollway and administered by The Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership. Learn More
Jackson Park Transportation Improvements: The City of Chicago, through the Department of Planning and Development ) and CDOT, is working on several roadway changes and transportation improvement projects in Chicago’s Jackson Park that will support the Obama Presidential Center and the Chicago Park District’s South Lakefront Framework Plan. CDOT has partnered with The Partnership to connect local residents with construction jobs for the project. If you would like to apply for these hiring opportunities, please complete the form here.
These Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in The Partnership’s network support construction initiatives:
| Awaken Chicago | Midwest Business Consulting | St Paul Church |
| BCS | OAI, Inc. | XD Tech |
| Central States SER | Revolution Workshop | YWCA |
| Equus Workforce Solutions | SERCO | |
| KRA | St Augustine College – IWE |