(a) How can I find a job, or a better-paying job?

Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612/721-4246
AECP has a program on leadership development and career enhancement for child care professionals as well as “tools to tackle turnover.”  Statewide.

Bosnian Women’s Network
Columbia Heights, MN 55421
763/788-0685
bosnianwn@hotmail.com
Helps Bosnian women adjust to life in the United States, and helps with research for jobs.  Mostly Twin Cities metro area.

Minnesota Federation of Business & Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. (BPW)
St. Paul, MN 55102
651/228-1840
www.bpwmn.org
Supports personal and professional development and career advancement opportunities through education and networking.  21 chapters throughout Minnesota.

East Metro Opportunities Industrialization Center (EMOIC)
St. Paul, MN 55107
651/291-5088
www.eastmetrooic.org
Provides recruitment, motivation, remediation, and vocational/behavioral training services with placement assistance, which results in employment and self-sufficiency for unemployed, underemployed, and underskilled individuals in Ramsey, Dakota and Washington counties.

Women in the Trades
St. Paul, MN 55103
651/228-9955
mnwomenintrades@yahoo.com
Orientation sessions to construction careers, job hotline, social and educational meetings.  Services in Twin Cities, serves as a resource for Greater Minnesota.

Women In Transition
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
612/752-8444
www.eac-mn.org/womenprog
Assists women in identifying job/career goals and obtaining employment through workshops, job search and resume writing, support groups, career counseling, vocational testing, etc.  Twin Cities metro area.

Women’s Programs of Employment Action Center
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
612/752-8444
www.eac-mn.org/womenprog
Assists women with services similar to Women In Transition (above), with special programs for various groups:  WINGS, Women Achieving New Directions, New Chance, and Pathways.  Twin Cities metro area.

Displaced homemaker programs:

Life-Work Planning Center
Mankato, MN 56001
1-800-369-5166
www.lwpc.org
Workshops and support groups, peer counseling, career testing and assessment for displaced homemakers and others.  Part of a network of 6 displaced homemaker programs throughout the state.  Nine counties in south central Minnesota.

META-5 Displaced Homemaker Program
Brainerd, MN 56001
800/933-0346
Counseling and pre-employment services to individuals who have become displaced homemakers and must seek employment/training for economic independence.  North Central Minnesota.

Career Solutions
St, Paul, MN 55108
Counseling and pre-employment services to individuals who have become displaced homemakers and must seek employment/training for economic independence.  Twin Cities area.

W.I.N.G.S.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
320/251-1612
Counseling and pre-employment services to individuals who have become displaced homemakers and must seek employment/training for economic independence.  St. Cloud area.

Lives-In-Transition, AEOA
Virginia, MN 55792
800/662-5711
Counseling and pre-employment services to individuals who have become displaced homemakers and must seek employment/training for economic independence.  Northeastern Minnesota.

Choices of Southeast Minnesota
Rochester, MN 55904
800/657-3716
Counseling and pre-employment services to individuals who have become displaced homemakers and must seek employment/training for economic independence.  Southeast Minnesota.