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The Allegheny Conference on Community Development has found a new leader, one with deep understanding of the Pittsburgh region’s workforce challenges.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stefani Pashman has been named CEO of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, effective Oct. 2.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
PITTSBURGH – Stefani Pashman has been named chief executive officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and its affiliates, effective Oct. 2. She succeeds Dennis Yablonsky, who earlier this year announced his decision to step down from the position at the end of 2017.
Source: Washington Observer-Reporter
Stefani Pashman, Chief Executive Officer of Partner4Work (formerly Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board), will step down after more than seven years to become CEO of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. She will assume the role October 2, 2017.
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development has named Stefani Pashman its new CEO..
Pashman, the current CEO of Partner4Work in Pittsburgh, will take over the post from Dennis Yablonsky, who plans to retire.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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