This paper describes the Essential Skills Program at the Community College of Denver (CCD), which functions as an education broker and a labor market intermediary that coordinates the services offered by CCD with the needs of a number of Department of Social Service clients. The Essential Skills Program (ESP) supplements the services offered by the college by providing a series of Life and Employment Skills and contributes to the Department of Social Services by assisting students in getting an internship as part of their training, and a job once their training is completed. ESP was designed in an effort to increase the job opportunities of welfare clients affected by Welfare-to-Work legislation. Core courses are designed to provide participants with work-related skills. ESP offers services to approximately 100 students per semester in 4 short-term, 4-month long educational tracks. The most successful program, the Financial Services track, with an average enrollment of 22 students per semester, has a 50% graduation rate, a 50% employment rate, and an average wage of $9.40 an hour, the highest in the program. The other tracks are Early Childhood Education, Medical Instrument Technician, and Retail Sales. (Contains 22 references.) (NB)