Empowering Women. Changing Lives.
The Linda and Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women (CFW) provides holistic career and support services to women who must enter or re-enter the workforce to provide for themselves and their families.
At the Center for Women, clients access career counseling, resume writing and job interview skills, computer classes, grants for job certification training programs, hard and soft skills workshops, access to recruitment opportunities, health and wellness workshops, family law consultations and more. All services are offered virtually. The CFW also provides referrals to partner organizations to meet a client’s outstanding needs.
Our focus is to ensure every client has the resources necessary and is empowered to reach her employment goals.
Center for Women Programs and Services
Our compassionate and dedicated professionals can help you get a fresh perspective on the things that matter most to you — life skills, independence, self-esteem and career opportunities — in a warm and caring atmosphere.
Career
Services
Work one-on-one with our skilled staff who offer career guidance to all women who would like to become “job-ready.”
Computer Classes
Take advantage of computer classes to learn new skills or enhance your abilities for a current job or a new career.
RISE Workshops
Life in transition? What now? RISE – Reaching Into Self Empowerment – Workshops will help you figure out your next steps.
Education 2 Empowerment
Education 2 Empowerment (E2E) is a grant-funded program pays for all or part of the cost of a career training certificate.
Legal Assistance
The Legal Assistance for Women program provides women facing legal issues a consultation with an attorney for a nominal fee.
How You Can Help the Center for Women
Pack the Pantry
In New Jersey, 1 in 10 people and 1 in 7 children live in households where there is no regular access to enough food to live healthy and active lives. The NCJW/Essex Pack the Pantry program is doing our part to help by providing ShopRite gift cards to our Center for Women clients so they can shop and provide for their families with dignity.
Legal Assistance for Women
(LAW) Program
LAW Assistants are volunteer representatives of the NCJW/Essex Center for Women who contact clients and connect them with attorneys for a consultation. The LAW program is currently operating entirely remotely, and training for volunteer attorneys is available.