PROGRAMS: Economic Empowerment

The Urban League empowers African Americans and others to achieve economic self-sufficiency and wealth accrual by prioritizing “ladders out of poverty” programming.

Employment Services - The Urban League provides resume writing, interviewing, job prospecting classes and job placement to clients.

Business Training Center – The Urban League helps clients to develop or refresh existing computer skills and to become knowledgeable about new technologies needed to compete in today’s job market.

Bridging the Digital Divide – The Urban League helps to eliminate the lack of access to computers and technology skills for low-income clients by providing a state-of the art computer lab and instructional courses.

Workforce Investment Act - The Urban League provides career counseling and employment opportunities to St. Louis youth ages 14 to 21.

Jobs for Missouri Graduates – The Urban League’s nationally-recognized youth employment and development training program for high school students provides services to students in eight school districts and community sites across St. Louis.

Urban Youth Empowerment Program (UYEP) – The Urban League provides both education and work experience to out of school and/or adjudicated youth ages 18-21 in St. Clair County, Illinois, ensuring self-sufficiency through community service, continued education and unsubsidized employment.

Housing Counseling – The Urban League educates and empowers African Americans and others to achieve economic self-sufficiency by promoting homeownership and by providing housing counseling and homeownership assistance training to clients through its Housing Counseling Program.

Foreclosure Prevention - The Urban League assists clients in maintaining homeownership by helping them to find alternative options to the foreclosure of their homes.

Financial Literacy Training - Through money management education and increased banking/loan opportunities, the Urban League assists low-income clientele to more effectively manage their finances.

Weatherization - The Urban League provides weatherization services to reduce ongoing utility costs; paying licensed contractors to install wall and ceiling insulation, caulking, weather stripping, glazed and repaired windows and doors, minor duct repair and complete furnace repair or tune-ups.