About
Who We Are
Path to Jobs is a workforce development, career readiness, and job placement organization that prepares low-income New Yorkers from historically underserved communities to become frontline workers in positions such as Health Coach, Peer Navigator, Community Health Worker, and Harm Reduction Specialist.
Path to Jobs was incubated by Alliance for Positive Change, a leading multiservice organization that provides low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions with access to quality health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and peer training. In 2022, Alliance launched Path to Jobs to scale its 30 years of career-readiness and job-placement leadership by expanding the model into a statewide workforce development innovator for the health and human service sectors.
What We Do
For Job Seekers, Path to Jobs offers intensive career readiness programs that prepare skilled and motivated individuals to achieve entry-level jobs in New York’s vibrant health and human service fields, where lived experience is one of our valued qualifications for employment.
For our Employment Partners, Path to Jobs provides customized job-placement services that streamline their job recruitment processes and strengthen their frontline teams. Employer partners are carefully matched with competent, dedicated employees whose lived experiences enable them to communicate effectively with community members around behavioral health, harm reduction, health care navigation, and more.
But we don’t stop there. After each successful match, Path to Jobs provides ongoing supports to our employer partners and our training graduates to ensure enduring job placements that change lives, strengthen organizations, and support community thriving.
This workforce product was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s Employment and Training Administration. The product was created by the recipient and does not necessarily reflect the official position of DOL/ETA. DOL/ETA makes no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information on linked sites and including, but not limited to, accuracy of the information or its completeness, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability, or ownership. This product is copyrighted by the institution that created it.
“Path to Jobs changed my life. I became more confident and learned how to be myself and express ideas.”
—Eugene, Path to Jobs Participant
Eugene is employed as a full-time Project Manager of Reentry Services at Alliance for Positive Change, a community-based health organization in NYC.