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🎥 Digital literacy is more than learning technology — it’s building confidence, telling your story, and creating new opportunities.

Through the Cook County Digital Equity IMPACT Grants Program, participants strengthened essential digital skills while developing personal digital stories that reflect their goals, growth, and career journeys.

This learner spotlight from classes hosted at American Job Center at Truman College highlights how digital access and hands-on support can help adults build confidence in today’s digital world.

Watch the story here:https://youtu.be/Le1uUAKkcko

🚶‍♀️ Sometimes workforce development looks like showing up and walking alongside someone — literally.

Recently, a scaleLIT Employment Specialist accompanied a participant in our Employment & Income project to a job fair at Richard J. Daley College.

This moment reflects what our work is all about: person-centered, long-term support that meets people where they are. For job seekers navigating significant and often complex barriers, progress is built through trust, consistency, and step-by-step support.

Employment specialists work hand in hand with participants over time — helping them explore goals, prepare for opportunities, navigate setbacks, and stay connected throughout the employment journey.

Sometimes the work is a resume. Sometimes it’s a conversation. Sometimes it’s walking into a job fair together.

And all of it matters. 💙

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