ForgeWork Production Launch September 1, 2026 Building Stronger Workers, Employers, and Texas Communities

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Verified employment and workforce support in Texas

Your Experience Has Value.
Your Future Has Direction.

ForgeWork connects job seekers with verified employment opportunities, personalized career support, workplace training, and employers prepared to hire talent based on skills, potential, and readiness.

Powered by TXFPF United LLC • Supporting Texas Workforce Commission Vocational Rehabilitation participants, people with disabilities, justice-impacted job seekers, veterans, and Texans facing employment barriers.

Diverse Houston workers and job seekers, including a wheelchair user and a person using a cane, gathering beside a METRORail train.
Skills first. People supported.Verified opportunities, accessible guidance, and human decisions.

Built for Texas talent

Who ForgeWork serves

Clear pathways for people seeking work and the professionals helping them succeed.

Job Seekers

Personalized job matching, resume support, interview preparation, workplace training, and employment follow-up.

People With Disabilities

Accessible employment services designed around individual strengths, accommodations, career interests, and service goals.

Justice-Impacted Applicants

Fair-chance employment support focused on current qualifications instead of permanent punishment for a past record.

Employers

Prepared candidates, hiring incentives, workforce support, employee retention services, and 90-day coaching.

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors

A structured referral process, documented services, participant progress, employment benchmarks, and outcome reporting.

Community Partners

A coordinated pathway for workforce boards, colleges, reentry organizations, veterans’ programs, courts, and community agencies.

A clear path forward

How ForgeWork works

  1. 1Register or submit a referral
  2. 2Complete a career and employment assessment
  3. 3Build an employer-ready profile and resume
  4. 4Receive verified job matches and interview support
  5. 5Start employment with up to 90 days of retention coaching

ForgeWork removes expired listings, checks employer information, and matches opportunities using skills, experience, wage goals, work preferences, accessibility needs, and career direction.

Support from preparation through retention

ForgeWork services

The ForgeWork standard

We Do More Than Post Jobs. We Build Employment Pathways.

For Texas employers

Hire Prepared Talent. Strengthen Your Workforce.

ForgeWork helps employers reach qualified candidates who are often overlooked by traditional hiring systems. Employer partners receive candidate matching, hiring incentive information, interview coordination, onboarding support, and 90-day retention assistance.

For counselors and community partners

Refer With Confidence.

ForgeWork gives vocational rehabilitation counselors, workforce professionals, community organizations, and reentry partners a clear referral pathway. Every participant receives organized employment support based on their service needs and career goals.

Protected referral center

Workforce Counselor Intake

Complete one step at a time. ForgeWork saves each referral before accepting its documents.

Human review required
  1. 1Sign in
  2. 2Access
  3. 3Referral
  4. 4Documents
  5. 5Track

Counselor sign-in

Use your verified Workforce email. New accounts require Tangi's approval before referrals or documents open.

Ms. Forgee, a Black digital workforce guide wearing glasses and a black suit, seated in a wheelchair.

Your digital workforce guide

Meet Ms. Forgee

Ms. Forgee helps users understand ForgeWork services, complete important steps, find training resources, and navigate the employment process. She provides guidance without replacing decisions made by qualified employment professionals.

Production impact

Real numbers. Verified results.

Production data coming September 1Participants Served
Production data coming September 1Verified Employers
Production data coming September 1Active Job Opportunities
Production data coming September 1Successful Employment Placements

Participant and employer stories

Success stories will come from the people we serve.

Approved testimonials will appear here after participants and employers give permission to share their experiences.

Approved stories only

Take the next step

Your Next Opportunity Starts With One Step.

Whether you need employment, qualified workers, or a trusted referral partner, ForgeWork is ready to help you move forward.

Your continuum

Build what comes next, on your terms.

How ForgeWork works

Four clear steps. You stay in control.

Step 1 of 4
ExploreSee current opportunities and support options.

Stabilize

Find steady ground

Prepare

Build skills and confidence

You are here

Advance

Move toward opportunity

Restore

Return without penalty

Continuum Restoration keeps every pathway open, including a supported return.

Human navigation

ForgeGuide

Personalized guidance and accessible next steps designed around you.

Restorative continuity

Bridge Forward

A path back to support and opportunity without blame, penalty, or permanent exclusion.

Explainable insight

Opportunity Intelligence

Verified opportunity information with correction rights and human judgment. No private match score is displayed.

Opportunity intelligence

Current opportunities. Clear information.

Only published, unexpired opportunities are requested. These listings are not rankings or automated recommendations, and you decide what moves forward.

Read only
Initial service areaGreater Houston

Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, Liberty, Chambers, and Waller counties appear first. Remote and other Texas opportunities remain available.

Public listing boundaryNo participant profile, private match score, narrative description, reviewer note, source payload, or location coordinate is requested.
What kind of work do you want to review?Choose a location group. This does not rank or recommend jobs.
Checking current published opportunities…

Human judgment remains controlling. A listing does not determine eligibility, readiness, suitability, or application outcome.

Human support from the ForgeWork operator

How can we help?

Call ForgeWork when you need help using the system, reaching the right workspace, or understanding your next step. Pilot support is monitored by one authorized person, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. Expect a response within two business days.

Call 713-538-0466

Privacy help

Protect your information

Do not enter passwords, Social Security numbers, identification numbers, medical details, diagnoses, private messages, or information about another person in Ms. Forgee.

Use the protected privacy-request form for concerns about your ForgeWork information. A human reviewer handles every request.

Call Human Support now

Real people remain in the loop

Support should be easy to reach.

Signed-in participants can submit an accommodation, privacy request, or grievance and review progress through a protected self-only boundary. Every consequential outcome still requires human review.

Participant-controlled connections

Career and disability employment resources

Explore trusted external information when you choose. ForgeWork does not send your profile, support history, disability information, or activity to these resources automatically.

SPEDTex resource connection

Texas disability employment services

Find information about Texas Workforce Solutions Vocational Rehabilitation services, including employment counseling, training, assistive technology, and specialized support.

External resource notice: These links open independent websites. Inclusion is informational and does not imply enrollment, eligibility, endorsement, referral completion, or a formal partnership.

Public accountability

See how FWOS is governed.

The certified public summary is being verified.

What this means for you

People decide. Your information stays protected.

The technical record below confirms the system baseline. These four promises explain the protections in plain language.

  1. 1You control your choicesNo application or information sharing happens without the required permission.
  2. 2A person reviews important decisionsFWOS and its guides do not decide eligibility, employment, services, or certificates.
  3. 3You may correct or appealHuman Support provides correction, privacy, accommodation, and grievance pathways.
  4. 4The system keeps a review historyAuthorized actions require identity, permission, and a written reason.
Connecting securely
Certification
Not available
Migration integrity
Not available
Domains passed
Not available of 12
Governance baseline
Not available
Governance status
Not available
Only an approved public summary is retrieved. Internal evidence and participant records remain protected.

Human launch validation

ForgeWork Launch Test Center

Use these checks on real devices and authorized accounts. Completion is saved only on this device. It does not change FWOS records and does not certify ADA or WCAG compliance.

0 of 11human test areas marked complete
Protect people while testingDo not enter passwords, diagnoses, identification numbers, private messages, or another person’s information. Do not create, approve, revoke, bill, publish, or change a real record only to test a button.
Public page

Screen reader

Ready to test
  1. Turn on Narrator, NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver.
  2. Move through headings, buttons, forms, and the Ms. Forgee dialog.
  3. Confirm names, instructions, status changes, and errors are spoken in a useful order.

Expected result: Every control has a clear name, the reading order makes sense, and no important message is silent.

Public and signed-in pages

Keyboard only

Ready to test
  1. Do not use the mouse or touch screen.
  2. Use Tab, Shift + Tab, Enter, Space, arrow keys, and Escape.
  3. Confirm focus is always visible and every action can be reached and closed.

Expected result: Nothing traps the keyboard, hides focus, or requires a mouse.

Public page

Text size, zoom, and contrast

Ready to test
  1. Test 200% text in Accessibility.
  2. Test browser zoom at 200% and a narrow window.
  3. Turn on stronger contrast and underlined links.

Expected result: Content reflows without overlap, clipping, missing navigation, or faint text.

Public and signed-in pages

Motion, flashing, and time limits

Ready to test
  1. Turn on Reduce motion in ForgeWork, then repeat with the device reduced-motion setting.
  2. Confirm moving or spoken content can be paused, resumed, restarted, or stopped.
  3. Complete forms at a slower pace and confirm ForgeWork does not impose an unexpected user time limit. If a protected session ends, confirm the message explains how to reconnect without losing unsent work.

Expected result: No content flashes or causes unwanted motion, controls stop nonessential movement or speech, and no user task ends without clear warning and recovery.

Public and signed-in pages

Navigation and input methods

Ready to test
  1. Use the skip link, page headings, landmarks, menus, and descriptive control labels to reach each area.
  2. Repeat the main journey with touch, voice control, or another available assistive input method.
  3. Confirm controls work without drag-only gestures, precise pointer movement, or device motion.

Expected result: People can find each area and operate every action with keyboard, touch, voice control, or another available input method.

Participant account

Participant journey

Ready to test
  1. Sign in with a real participant-controlled test account.
  2. Open My Workspace, upload a resume, return a completed consent-form PDF, and review both histories.
  3. Confirm the participant sees and downloads only their own documents, then review Human Support, opportunities, and service choices.

Expected result: No other participant is visible, both documents stay private, and no upload or internal review authorizes employer sharing or submits an application.

Authorized administrator

Administrator journey

Ready to test
  1. Open the administrator workspace and each permitted queue.
  2. Confirm unavailable actions stay unavailable and written reasons are required where expected.
  3. Do not submit a consequential action only for testing.

Expected result: The correct staff boundary appears and no access protection is bypassed.

Authorized ForgeWork operator

Sole-operator workday

Ready to test
  1. Open Today’s action queue at the beginning of published support hours.
  2. Review each loaded queue without submitting a test-only consequential action.
  3. Check the approved separate process for accommodation, privacy, and grievance requests because those protected requests are not loaded into Today’s action queue.

Expected result: The operator sees what requires attention, understands what is excluded, and never mistakes an empty loaded queue for proof that no protected support request exists.

Signed out, participant, and administrator

Ms. Forgee and Ms. EWIP

Ready to test
  1. Ask each available guidance question.
  2. Follow every route and try a route while the destination is loading.
  3. Confirm privacy warnings and Human Support remain easy to reach.

Expected result: Guidance is short, respectful, role-correct, and never claims authority to decide, score, approve, or change records.

Enrolled participant and authorized staff

ForgeWork Academy

Ready to test
  1. Review enrollment, assessment, learning plan, lessons, attendance, progress, and reporting.
  2. Test completion and certificate controls only when a real record is ready.
  3. Confirm Ms. Forgee and Ms. EWIP remain outside scoring and certificate decisions.

Expected result: Participants see their classroom; authorized people retain every review, completion, and certificate decision.

Phone or narrow browser

Mobile and touch

Ready to test
  1. Test portrait and landscape orientation.
  2. Open navigation, Accessibility, account access, Ms. Forgee, forms, and wide tables.
  3. Confirm targets are easy to tap and the keyboard does not cover the active field.

Expected result: No control is hidden, covered, too small, or unreachable.

If something does not work

Record the test area, page, action, expected result, actual result, device, browser, screen reader or accessibility tool, and a screenshot when safe. Do not include private participant information.