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Center For Employment Opportunities Snapshot
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. Our highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives.
CEO serves 4,500 participants a year, giving them the opportunity to support themselves and their families, remain crime-free and to contribute positively to their communities. What began as a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice in the 1970s to address employment barriers facing the formerly incarcerated following release in NYC has grown into the leading reentry employment organization in the country, where 17,000 formerly incarcerated individuals have secured full-time employment since 1996. Over the past 6 years, CEO has gained support to expand its programs through government, nonprofit, and private organizations. In this time CEO has expanded to 9 cities outside of NY, and anticipates further growth in the next 3 years. CEO has completed a 5-year strategic plan that sees the organization growing to serve 9,000 participants and expanding into 14-22 new locations while improving programming such that growth and scale is done with a commitment to excellence.
