Adult Job Training:
Putting Adults Back To Work
My Branch
Select a location...
BURBANK YMCA (READING)
36 Arthur B. Lord Drive
Reading, MA 01867
CHARLES RIVER YMCA (FITNESS CENTER, GROUP EXERCISE AND BABYSITTING)
380 Chestnut Street
Needham, MA 02492
CHARLES RIVER YMCA (POOL SITE AND SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE)
863 Great Plain Ave
Needham, MA 02492
CHARLESTOWN YMCA
150 3rd Avenue
Charlestown, MA 02129
DORCHESTER YMCA
776 Washington Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
EAST BOSTON YMCA
215 Bremen Street
East Boston, MA 02128
EAST BOSTON YMCA (ASHLEY STREET)
54 Ashley Street
East Boston, MA 02128
HUNTINGTON AVENUE YMCA
316 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
NORTH SUBURBAN YMCA (WOBURN)
137 Lexington Street
Woburn, MA 01801
OAK SQUARE YMCA (BRIGHTON)
615 Washington Street
Brighton, MA 02135
PARKWAY COMMUNITY YMCA (WEST ROXBURY)
1972 Centre Street
West Roxbury, MA 02132
ROXBURY YMCA
285 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Roxbury, MA 02119
THOMAS M. MENINO YMCA (HYDE PARK)
1137 River Street
Hyde Park, MA 02136
WALTHAM YMCA
725 Lexington Street
Waltham, MA 02452
WANG YMCA OF CHINATOWN
8 Oak Street West
Boston, MA 02116
The YMCA Training, Inc. program is an intensive 20-week, full-time (600 hours) computerized office skills training and employment program. Designed to replicate the expectations of a professional office environment, the training prepares participants with both the technical and job readiness skills to succeed.
We provide intensive, hands-on, innovative technical training in a simulated business environment and engage lasting, deep commitment of major employers in Greater Boston. Our program is constantly reviewed and informed by industry partners, ensuring that participants are receiving the most relevant, hands-on training to gain career-building employment in the Greater Boston area.
OUR IMPACT
$103.5 million earned by graduates last year
$25.8 million in taxes paid by graduates last year
$1.2 million was saved in just the past two years in public assistance and unemployment payments as recipients gained new employment
YMCA Training, Inc. graduates’ monthly income nearly triples with their first job after training
OUR RESULTS
4,750 graduates
Over 120 companies hired a YMCA Training, Inc. graduate in the past 2 years
80% job placement rate
86% of graduates retain their job for more than 1 year
OUR HISTORY
For more than 30 years, YMCA Training, Inc. has been among Greater Boston’s most successful workforce development programs, enabling people in poverty to move into thriving self-sufficiency through professional skills training and employment. In 1984, Elsa Bengel brought the YMCA Training, Inc. model from Chicago and Indianapolis to Boston, where the program has been part of the YMCA of Greater Boston ever since.
More than 4,750 women and men have successfully completed YMCA Training, Inc. and moved onto skilled jobs with benefits and opportunities for career advancement. In the past year alone, YMCA Training, Inc. graduates earned about $103.5 million and paid about $25.8 million in taxes.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please call (617) 542-1800 or complete the form below.
