Western Indiana Employment & Training Services, Inc. (WIETS), a non-profit organization, has provided employment and training assistance to the citizens of Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion and Vigo Counties for more than 20 years. As part of WorkOne, WIETS offers job search and training resources at no cost to the job seeker.
About WIETS
Mission
WIETS plans, implements and administers programs to recruit, train and place economically disadvantaged and unemployed people in jobs that allow self sufficiency.
WIETS works with local employers, learning facilities, chambers of commerce and government to evaluate training needs to ensure a well qualified local workforce and assist in economic development
What We Do
Western Indiana Employment & Training Services, Inc. (WIETS), is a non-profit organization established in 1983. WIETS consists of five service centers providing employment and training services for workers, students and employers in Vigo, Clay, Parke, Putnam and Vermillion counties.
Workforce Investment activities authorized and funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) are delivered at the local level to those in need of services, including job seekers, dislocated workers, displaced homemakers, youth, veterans, disabled individuals and also employers. Services are provided throught a One-Stop delivery system which incorporates partnerships between various public and private sector employment training agencies. Core, intensive and training services mandated by the Workforce Investment Act are available in each county.
WIETS, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and Vocational Rehabilitation(DWD), operates a one-stop career center in Terre Haute, Indiana offering unemployment insurance, employment services and job training in one location.
WIETS is also a provider of IMPACT (Indiana Manpower Placement and Comprehensive Training) services in Clay, Parke and Putnam counties. WIETS works closely with the local offices of the Division of Family and Children within each of these counties to provide employment and training activities to recipients of TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) and food stamps.
WIETS partners with business and community leaders in support of welfare reform, labor force requirements and other community needs central to establishing a world class workforce.
WIETS also engages in fee for services contracts with area employers, such as administering employment testing.
Our History
In early October 1983, several Occupational Development Centers serving Western Indiana came together as one to become Western Indiana Private Industry Council. The new employment and training entitiy would now service Vigo, Vermillion, Clay, Parke and Putnam counties. It would operate under the newly implemented Job Training Partnership Act. In the 1990's, the name would be changed to Western Indiana Employment and Training Services, Inc. and would eventually operate under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) in partnership with the Western Indiana Workforce Investment Board (WIWIB).
In its 20 years of existence, WIETS has been able to help many thousands of persons get the training they need to gain substantial employment. Training has come in many forms including job readiness, short term and longer term training. Much of the longer term training has led to a needed degree.
The objective is always to get the participant into viable work. This has also been accomplished through direct job placement, as well as on the job training contracts.
WIETS not only has worked with unemployed and underemployed, but with dislocated workers as well. Major outplacement projects have taken place with J.I.Case, Alcan Aluminum, Chesty Foods, Pillsbury Corporation, Amax and Peabody Coal, Donnelley Corporation, International Paper, Hulman Company and Pitman Moore.
WIETS has also worked with disadvantaged youth. We have had large, successful summer youth programs for many years, working with as many as 450 youth from the five county area. In addition, we provide some year-round internship programs.
Our mission and history have also included IMPACT programs and Welfare-to-Work intitiatives. Within WIETS' past twenty years, we have proudly assisted hundreds of local citizens secure training and employment such as: computer programmers, registered and licensed practical nurses, office managers, factory foremen and auto mechanics - just to name a few!
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