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Partner4Work, the organization
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Partner4Work proudly announces the launch of a satellite office of PA CareerLink® Pittsburgh/Allegheny County at the Energy Innovation Center (EIC) in the Lower Hill District of the city.
Next City explores the maker movement at 7800 Susquehanna Street in Homewood.
Source: Next City
The premise of the game "Booeys: A Ghost's Code" is a simple one: guide a ghost through a series of increasingly difficult puzzles, helping characters called "Lost" reach the portal on the other side and avoid various pitfalls along the way.
It's the real endgame that is a little more complex. At the end of each level, players see what skill sets they used to achieve a solution, including "logic," "problem-solving," "algorithmic thinking," "building solutions" and "attention to detail."
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Allegheny County, on behalf of DHS and the Allegheny County Jail Collaborative, is soliciting proposals for a vocational training program in the Allegheny County Jail. The goal of the vocational training program is to assist Allegheny County Jail Reentry Program participants in completing a certified or credentialed training program that will enable them to obtain employment in a vocational field following release from the Jail.
One recent afternoon, Sita Adhikari disappeared into small room bustling with nurses on the fifth floor of Jefferson Hospital. Her shift drawing to a close, she emerged with a cart of plastic cups and moved briskly down the cardiac care unit full of thirsty, bedridden patients.
An 18-year-old Baldwin High School student, Ms. Adhikari came to the U.S. from Nepal five years ago as a refugee. But for all the instability she has experienced, she has her future mapped out: She wants to go to college to be a nurse.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Grant opportunities announced by US Department of Labor, US Department of Education and National Science Foundation.
More than 450 job seekers connected with representatives of regional businesses during third annual Career Awareness and Jobs Fair.
For three years The Homewood Children’s Village (HCV) has participated in the City of Pittsburgh’s Learn and Earn Summer Employment Program with the purpose to provide work experience to Pittsburgh and Allegheny County young residents.
Learn and Earn is a six-week summer job program for teens and young adults ages 14 to 21. The program provides participants the opportunity to earn money, gain valuable work experience, and to develop soft skills to help them become college- and career-ready.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
AT&T supports the 2017 Learn & Earn summer youth employment program.
Learn & Earn interns help spread the word about the dangers of lead and how it threatens the health of young children and pregnant women.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As the workforce development agent serving on behalf of Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Fitzgerald, Partner4Work
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For Sheri Dyson, hope is found in a renovated carriage house in Waynesburg, Greene County.
It’s there she spends her mornings learning new languages. No, not spoken ones. These are languages such as C# in Xamarin, which in layman’s terms is coding that allows an app to be published to any phone.
Dyson’s just one week into a 16-week apprenticeship at Mined Mines, where in May she completed a boot camp to learn the basics of coding.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The Office of Refugee Resettlement within the US Department of Health and Human Services will provide funding to implement projects assisting refugees to qualify for licenses and certifications necessary to attain employment and improve self-sufficiency.
Deadline: August 29, 2017.
Governor Tom Wolf announced Friday the latest departure from his cabinet - Labor & Industry Secretary Kathy Manderino.
Source: PA HomePage
Pittsburgh City Council approves expenditures of as much as $200,000 to support Pittsburgh’s Learn and Earn Summer Youth Employment Program.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
About six years ago, there came a point when Project Hosts, a company providing security for mobile apps, simply ran out of workers.
The operation was small — a couple dozen people based in Conneautville, a town of 800 people near Meadville — and demand was pouring in from its clients, primarily health care companies and government agencies, as they shifted information to cloud storage.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh has declared itself an “inclusive innovation city,” meaning it is committed to making sure that white people aren’t the only beneficiaries of the tech-based economy it’s trying to cultivate. Here’s how that’s working out.
Source: The Atlantic CityLab
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education announces federal funding opportunties available to public and private non-profit organizations.
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter