ANEW also provides support services for welfare recipients who enter apprenticeship. Tradeswomen who have completed apprenticeships are among the union representatives who serve on the advisory committee for the area's WtW program. Orientation to Union Careers Union representatives and apprenticeship coordinators in Sacramento, California, cooperate with the area's workforce development agency in providing an initial orientation to unions and careers which begin in apprenticeship programs. Their presentation is part of a three-day training session on nontraditional employment for women which is offered to welfare recipients. Founded in 1990, the 21st Street Training Program guarantees a Cessna job to those who successfully complete training.
Related counseling addresses social skills, personal finances, parenting, and personal growth.
The subassembly facility is being expanded, and the jobs it provides are contributing to the city's broader revitalization efforts in the 21st Street area. The IAM members' mentor graduates move from the subassembly training center into the larger, unionized Cessna factories in the Wichita area. San Francisco Housing Authority San Francisco's Building and Construction Trades Council negotiated an unusual agreement with the city's Housing Authority. The building trades unions agreed to provide union work for public housing residents, who are mainly welfare recipients, in exchange for the Housing Authority's pledge that all of its contracted work would be union-built. Since 1996, about 200 low-income people have joined San Francisco building trades unions through this agreement and are earning union wages as apprentices or journeyworkers.