Center for Employment Training

SOME opened the Center for Employment Training (CET) in July of 1998, understanding that many of the disadvantaged in the District of Columbia lack the marketable skills to obtain employment that pays a living wage. Most of the jobs that homeless and poor individuals have access to are those that pay a minimum wage and do not include benefits. Those jobs keep working poor persons well below the poverty line and just one small step ahead of homelessness. In fact, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (Annual Regional Housing Report), 31.6 percent of homeless adults are employed.

SOME CET’s mission is to empower people out of poverty and into living wage careers through marketable skills training, human development, basic education and job development. Since opening, SOME CET has graduated hundreds of trainees with over 80% finding living wage jobs.

Learn more about SOME's CET:

• Principles for Success
• Business & Customer Relations Associate
• Medical Administrative Assistant
• Building Maintenance Service Tech
• For Employers

While helping our clients develop the skills they need to break out of the cycle of poverty, we are also advocating for public policies and programs that will improve employment opportunities for other low-income people in the District. We are also seeking increases in wages and income supports.

Interested Applicants

Those interested in applying for admission to the program can call SOME CET directly to schedule an appointment or can come to a walk-in Information session every Monday at 9 AM.

Interested in joining our Industrial Advisory Board? Learn more here.

Application to Volunteer at SOME Center for Employment Training

SOME Center for Employment Training (CET)
2815 "O" Street, SE
Washington, DC 20020
202.583.4655
cet@some.org