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At National Able Network, we have a great team of Career Coaches that make it their main objective to help job seekers achieve their career goals! Coral Duarte, who has been helping clients achieve their goals for the last five years, has…

Glen Richardson, Jr. was an underemployed Customer Service Representative when he decided it was time for a change. He came to National Able Network to pursue his career goal of working in the Information Technology field. Through the help of National…

Finding employment can be difficult. Finding an empathetic person to talk to about your job search can be even more difficult. One way to alleviate the stress of your job search is to connect with other job seekers. Discussing your career journey with fellow job seekers can be a…

Last week, Able was proud to host Orville Pierson, an employment services professional and the author of several books on searching for a new job and navigating unemployment. Mr. Pierson joined us as part of the agency’s work to incorporate…

Senator Tom Harkin (chair of the Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions committee) must be beaming right now. After some ten plus years of pushing for agreement on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act, both chambers of Congress have finally…

Clifford “Cliff” Whitehouse came to the Chicago Workforce Center in August 2011 and was enrolled in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program through National Able Network. With Able’s help, Cliff was able to access WIA funding to pay tuition for the Physician’s…

Great news: last week, Congress was able to pass a bill extending the provision of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC). A number of government agencies, including one of our major funders the Department of Labor, released statements celebrating this event, as…

At National Able Network, we are always amazed by the resilience of our clients. In the case of our past client, Beverly MacPherson, her resilience kicked in immediately after being laid off, and she was only unemployed for a month…

Just as soon as I returned from the Hill after attending the 2014 National Skills Coalition Skills Summit and was beginning to settle back on to Central time, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin — fresh off a red-eye from the Hill —…

The chances are increasing that we will see the Workforce Investment Act reauthorized, in some form, in our lifetimes. Betting on when the Workforce Investment Act will be reauthorized is like predicting the next ice age. Nevertheless, in the ten years since…