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Daniel Fitzpatrick, president and CEO of Citizens Bank Pennsylvania, told the audience at African American Chamber of Commerce July Business Breakfast that the bank is committed to building the region’s economy, workforce and diversity.

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier

Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) has rolled out a new online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing. Called Quick Train for Jobs, the site is a clearinghouse for free or low-cost, high-quality, brief training programs with some of the region’s most recognized institutions.

Source: Pop City Media

With companies needing skilled workers -- but are not always being willing to pay to train them -- and long-term unemployment remaining a problem in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has founded a new website to help people find low-cost training programs.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board has developed a website, www.quicktrainforjobs.com, to connect job seekers to free and low-cost training programs.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) announced today that it has launched “Quick Train for Jobs,” an innovative online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing.

Source: NewswireToday.com

PITTSBURGH (July 15, 2013) — Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) announced today that it has launched “Quick Train for Jobs,” an innovative online tool that connects job seekers to free or low-cost training programs designed to prepare people for quick entry into well-paying jobs in health care, energy, and manufacturing.

It's no secret that our region has seen a disconnect between the skills job seekers have and the skills employers need to fill jobs.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

With the Affordable Care Act expected to increase demand for health care services, demand also is on the rise for the type of skills and knowledge needed to navigate a fast-evolving health care landscape.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

While there is debate in the country over how much of today’s unemployment is rooted in a skills gap (a recent New York Times editorial called the claim “mostly corporate fiction”), if you talk to people in the Pittsburgh region, many acknowledge there are more open jobs than people with the requisite skills to fill them.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

At a recent meeting with stakeholders to discuss workforce development, Scott Hudson, principal manager of social responsibility and community outreach for the Alcoa Foundation, asked if there was one profession in manufacturing that has faced a skills gap that has been filled.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Governor Tom Corbett, along with PA Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway, today announced the creation of a program to take private industry recruitment programs and practices and translate them into public sector workforce development efforts.

Source: HeraldOnline.com

The Wall Street Journal included a media release about Gov. Corbett's announcement of the PA Talent Hub.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board among the recipients of the fifth annual Vanguard Diversity Award.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Jobs for teenagers and even young adults are scarce nearly four years after the official end of the Great Recession. It is a trend that has some researchers worried not just about the young people, but also about the health of industries.

Source: GoErie.com

3RWIB Youth Policy Council Chair Laura Ellsworth talks about the projects that have given her the most satisfaction.

Source: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel

For many, summer as a kid conjures images of long rides in the back of the family sedan, co-ed sports at the local YMCA camp or hours spent on the couch watching TV. These kind of summer experiences still exist, but an array of programs around Pittsburgh are opening the eyes and minds of youth of all ages.

Source: WESA-FM

We know the best way to learn to work is by working. However, there is a silent crisis emerging in our region. While our economy continues to strengthen with positive movement in the housing and stock markets, little attention is being given to the decline in meaningful professional experience for our children.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

While all the mayoral candidates were busy talking about creating jobs, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board was launching its 7th annual Imagine Career Week focused on mentoring, training and inspiring youth to get ready for the estimated 3 million permanent science, technology, engineering mathematics (STEM) careers that will need to be filled in the energy field alone.

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier

Meet the new health care professionals. They are comfortable with technology and using data. They are part doctor, part nurse, part home-health aide. They are team players with excellent communication skills. Call these people community-health workers, and they have gotten the attention of Stefani Pashman, CEO of the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board Inc.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Parents today will be exposing their children to the working world during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, but much more important lessons about employment are learned when those children enter the labor force.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette