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From Our Kids: The Employment Institute

Employment

Northside VlogU students captured the story of the Employment Institute, operated by our partner, Auberle.  VlogU students traveled to several worksites and held interviews with employees to show what an experience in the Auberle program can do for students. Auberle helps over 500 youth a year in Pittsburgh, with 100 youth Northside specific, by providing resources to remove barriers to employment.

Created by Northside youth, Never Fear Being Different’s VlogU program teaches digital information literacy, career development, and effective online leadership.

 

 

September 19, 2019
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Pittsburgh’s new Financial Empowerment Center offers free advice and education in underserved neighborhoods

Employment

Some Pittsburghers grow up learning to make a budget and establish good credit. But in underserved neighborhoods, many people struggle to break the cycle of poverty partly because they haven’t been taught these skills.

“That’s a problem that goes from generation to generation, and it holds kids and young adults back,” says Henry Horn-Pyatt, the small business & neighborhood redevelopment manager for the Mayor’s office. “It’s not that people aren’t smart. You just need access to the right information.”

This week, the City of Pittsburgh and the nonprofit development group Neighborhood Allies are launching a new public service program aimed at closing this gap. The Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) initiative will allow citizens to schedule free meetings with financial planners to get one-on-one counseling on subjects like paying down debt and opening affordable bank accounts.

“We want to provide this service to people who would benefit from it more than perhaps rich folks would, and it’s going to make our society a lot more stable,” explains Horn-Pyatt, one of the project leaders. “It’s going to be good for all of us.”

These services will be offered at eight partner locations across Allegheny County, including CoLab18 in Nova Place, Focus on Renewalin McKees Rocks and Carnegie Library’s West End branch. A full list of partner organizations and services offered can be found here.

The locations were chosen for their centrality and convenience for the surrounding community, Horn-Pyatt tells NEXTpittsburgh: “I wanted to put this service where they already had to go for the doctor or pick up groceries.”

A full-time staff of four financial coaches and one supervisor, all of whom were hired and trained by Advantage Credit Counseling, will move between each location.

The program is supported by the Cities for Financial Empowerment(CFE) Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing free financial planning services to local governments and municipalities all over the nation.

Altogether, the initiative will cost $666,000 over the next two years. While the vast majority of the funding is already secured from the CFE and other philanthropic partners, Pittsburgh City Council is also weighing a motion to contribute $30,000 in public funds.

The motion was introduced by Councilmember Ricky Burgess today and will proceed to a vote tomorrow, March 20.

Looking toward the future, Horn-Pyatt says he sees the FEC initiative remaining outside of the city budget. To continue funding their operations into the future, he hopes to see large banks and financial institutions step up.

“Let’s be honest here, everybody who’s doing better with their budget is a potential mortgage customer, is a potential small business lending customer, a potential auto-lending customer,” Horn-Pyatt explains.

The New York-based CFE fund is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies as well as by banking companies such as Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase. The role of these financial institutions in funding the CFE is somewhat ironic, as both companies have paid billions of dollars in fines to settle claims that they misrepresented the quality of mortgage loans made in the run-up to the financial crisis.

Separately, Wells Fargo has faced a variety of lawsuits for allegedly targeting minority borrowers with high-interest, predatory lending, which bank staff referred to internally as “ghetto loans.” JPMorgan Chase, meanwhile, paid $55 million in 2017 to settle allegations of discriminatory mortgage lending.

It’s a subject Horn-Pyatt understands better than many. During his time working at the New Kensington Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia in 2012, he worked on the team that oversaw the money Wells Fargo was forced to pay Philadelphia and several other cities as part of a settlement over discriminatory lending.

Horn-Pyatt says that these and other scandals should make large financiers think more about investing in creative, flexible support services like the FEC initiative.

“If you were more likely to foreclose on homes in a certain community,” he says, “and more likely to give predatory loans to a certain demographic of people, well maybe now on the back end you ought to be having preferential treatment” for those same groups.

“I’m not saying that should be the law,” Horn-Pyatt says. “That just morally makes sense to me.”

Originally published on March 19, 2019
SOURCE: NEXT Pittsburgh

April 19, 2019
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College degree? Many Pittsburgh-area jobs in the next decade may not require one.

Employment

Dave Keefer is a sixth-grade Earth science teacher at Greensburg Salem Middle School. His career in education is partly a product of how labor and success have been defined in recent decades.

“My dad was a carpenter, and he would come home at the end of the day, he’d have mud up to his knees and he’d look at me and the direct quote was, ‘Son, go to school so you don’t have to do this shit for the rest of your life.’”

Keefer took his father’s advice, graduating from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a degree in education and later earning a master’s degree from Gannon University.

Many have and still view higher education as the only ticket to a stable, prosperous career. But it’s not so clear-cut anymore.

As the Baby Boomers continue to retire, workforce and regional development experts estimate that the region will face a shortfall of 80,000 qualified workers by 2025. Much of the shortage will affect growing fields such as health care, information technology [IT] and robotics.

But this lack of skilled workers is especially prominent when it comes to jobs requiring what an Allegheny Conference on Community Development report calls “Sub-BA credentials,” jobs that don’t require a college degree. For example, physical therapy assistant positions are projected to grow by 31 percent and electrical power line installers by 20 percent.

It’s increasingly possible to earn a living wage without attending college, but recent high school graduates often lack the skills to enter those occupations and the awareness that such career opportunities exist in the first place. Several for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the region have stepped in to address the various barriers to high school graduates gaining skilled employment, including lack of technical skills, career readiness or “soft skills,” and contemporary career awareness.

At a March event organized by the Consortium for Public Education designed to boost educators’ career awareness in technical fields, Keefer reflected on the changing perceptions of success.

“It’s almost going against the American Dream of doing better than the generation before you,” Keefer said. His father pushed him to go to college, but now, “It’s like, wait a second, if I push my son, which I’m not afraid to do, to encourage him to get back to [trades], is he advancing or is he regressing? It’s unfortunate that we look at it that way, but that’s a reality.”

Technical Skills

What ever happened to wood shop and welding classes in high school?

Their disappearance is attributable to several factors. Academic requirements for a high school diploma increased. Funding for CTE [Career Technical Education] programs declined nationally. And the perception that all young people should pursue a college education spread.

In Pittsburgh’s 10-county footprint, the conference report states that CTE programs for high-demand occupations tend to be under-enrolled. For example, CTE programs in cosmetology, a low-demand occupation with a median annual income of $24,850, enroll almost four times more students than programs for machine tool technology, a high-demand profession. Machinists earn a median annual income of $42,600, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Bidwell’s clinical lab exposes medical assistant students to equipment and technology used in health care facilities. (Photo by Scott Goldsmith, courtesy of the Bidwell Training Center)

Bidwell Training Center, located in Chateau on Pittsburgh’s North Side, is working to change the trend. The center offers career-oriented technical training at no cost to Pennsylvania residents with either a G.E.D. or high school diploma. Bidwell accommodates up to 120 students at a time with a range of programs, from culinary arts and horticulture technology to medical claims processing and training for pharmacy and laboratory technicians.

Valerie Njie, the executive director and senior vice president of the Bidwell Training Center, said the key to the center’s success is their collaboration with industry. “What has brought us to this point is that we continue to work with industry… Usually when people open up schools and programs, they design a program and then they go and they try to sell it,” Njie said.

In contrast, Bidwell works with industry leaders to develop programs to facilitate employment in high-demand occupations. “When [our] students graduate, they’re qualified, because the industry told us the skills they have to have,” Njie said.

Other local educational organizations are also working to provide technical sub-BA credentials.

The Community College of Allegheny County [CCAC] continues to build its forthcoming Workforce Training Center.

Activity in Bidwell’s kitchen is hectic each morning as the culinary students practice their skills by preparing lunch for students and staff. (Photo by Scott Goldsmith, courtesy of the Bidwell Training Center)

Theresa Bryant, CCAC’s vice president for workforce development, said the new center, planned for Pittsburgh’s North Side, will facilitate “a dramatic expansion of the culinary program that we currently offer at that campus.” The center will also offer more opportunities for training in advanced manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing and advanced robotics training, she said.

Nazareth College and Career Prep, an independent Catholic high school in the Allegheny County borough of Emsworth, is slated to be the first high school in Western Pennsylvania with a certified pre-apprenticeship training program. After 10th grade, students will be able to declare a concentration in one of three areas. A mechatronics program is scheduled to launch in the fall. The school is “in conversation” about programs on allied healthcare and process technology, a course of study designed to lead to jobs at Shell’s ethane cracker plant, which is currently under construction.

According to the head of school and chief learning officer, Lisa Abel-Palmieri, about 80 percent of Nazareth’s 170 students are on the four-year college pathway, but for the students in this spring’s graduating class who planned to go directly into the workforce, “We’re not worried about them being able to pass the entrance exam for the carpenter’s union or for the trades they’re interested in,” she said.

Soft Skills

Kaylee Nicotero is a rising senior at Nazareth. There, she said she’s had a chance to develop “soft skills” — defined by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as a “widely coveted category of skills,” including leadership, teamwork, work ethic, critical thinking and interpersonal communication. These skills are widely said to be challenging to teach in a traditional school setting.

Nicotero said she “never knew how to code or how computers ran before” her internship at EDGE, a school-run startup working on game design and virtual reality. Initially, “I did not think I was capable of doing it,” she said. Nicotero’s willingness to try new things and ability to confidently navigate unfamiliar territory are among the soft skills she’s gained through participation in Nazareth’s corporate internship program. “I grew in a sense that I was more comfortable doing things I’ve never done before or didn’t have a background in,” she said.

Kaylee Nicotero is a rising senior at Nazareth College and Career Prep, an independent Catholic high school formerly known as Holy Family Academy. (Photo by Ryan Loew/PublicSource)

All Nazareth students spend one day a week at internship placement. Students are matched with internship partners based on several factors, including student interests and strengths as well as feedback from parents and teachers.

The internship program’s business partners not only provide mentorship, but for-profit partners also contribute to interns’ tuition fees at Nazareth.

City Charter High School is another local school prioritizing career readiness for its students. Internship Manager Patti Kretschman said City Charter encourages ninth-grade students to explore their career interests and personal values. Sophomore year “mimics the workplace,” with students looking at job postings, writing cover letters and resumes and going on mock interviews. In 11th grade, students assemble an “individual packet,” including an unofficial transcript, letters of recommendation and long and short personal essays. They also practice filling out the Common Application (an undergraduate college application accepted by hundreds of colleges and universities) and sample job applications.

In 12th grade, the format of students’ days change to emphasize independence and self-sufficiency. Students learn through lectures, study groups and seminars as well as independent and service learning projects.

In their internship placements, Kretschman said she emphasizes students’ ability to consistently show up on time, communicate properly and be positive and respectful.

“Wherever the student is,” Kretschman said, “we meet them there. And then we want to grow and stretch them.”

City Charter enlists internship partners as mentors who monitor students’ performance and help them with “navigating the workplace,” negotiating tricky situations such as when to solve your own problems at work and when to ask for help.

Kretschman reports the school has about 140 internship partners, although not every placement hosts a student each semester.

Career Awareness

Often, parents and teachers are unaware of the possibility of skilled employment without a college degree.

“Teachers have come to us now for the last three to four years repeatedly saying, ‘It’s hard for us to help guide our students or even to prepare our students when we don’t know what the opportunities are or what the needs are,’” said Mary Kay Babyak, executive director of the Consortium for Public Education.

The consortium is working to increase career awareness by exposing educators to current career opportunities that don’t require a college degree in high-growth professions.

In response to what she describes as an “extremely high” interest level from both schools and businesses, the consortium is in the process of developing programs like “Educator in the Workforce” that allow educators and industry leaders to collaborate on creating clearer pathways for students from high school to skilled employment.

The first trial run of that program on March 28 involved 25 educators from six districts. Groups visited Mascaro Construction, Duquesne Light, Peoples Natural Gas or U.S. Steel to learn of the opportunities those businesses offer for qualified individuals without bachelor’s degrees.

After visiting one of four business sites, educators reconvened to discuss what they learned and how the K-12 system can better prepare students to enter high-demand professions.

David Zili, principal at Greensburg Salem High School, said, “I think kids can wrap their brain around a problem more than they can just wrap it around, let’s say, science content,” suggesting that teachers frame instruction for some students around industrial problem-solving.

John Mascaro Jr., the president and CEO of Mascaro Construction, spoke about his desire to counter “the stereotype of the dirty hands laborer” by exposing students to the reality of life as a professional laborer.

Kelly Kearns, a computer science and career and technology teacher at Elizabeth Forward High School, affirmed Mascaro’s perception. From her experience, she said the negative perception “starts a lot of the time with parents. …A lot of parents want for their children to go to four-year colleges.”

Fewer than 10 percent of local businesses surveyed by the Allegheny Conference for its report have made or are considering outreach efforts to K-12 schools.

Mascaro, at the March event, said they’re willing to start spreading awareness of the variety of careers available in construction.

PNC, UPMC and FedEx are already spreading the word for their respective job opportunities. Joshua Stewart, PNC’s director of college, high school and diversity recruiting/development programs, is developing an outreach program to reach high school seniors and discuss local entry-level positions available after graduation.

Through this program, which Stewart calls “a pilot of a pilot,” representatives from PNC, UPMC and FedEx conduct monthly visits to local high schools to talk with seniors on track to graduate who may be interested in alternatives to college. This year, the program has reached 100 students across five school districts. Stewart said he hopes to expand the program to 11th-grade students in the future.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Austin Davis, D-Allegheny, introduced in March a bill that would allocate millions of dollars in funding to encourage more programs like the one initiated by PNC, UPMC and FedEx. Alongside funds designated to modernize the state’s CTE system, the bill would authorize $8 million for college and career counseling in middle and high schools.

“The economy’s changing pretty rapidly in Southwestern Pennsylvania,” and it’s essential “that high schoolers and middle schoolers are aware of all the options that they have,” Davis told PublicSource. “We should foster the opportunity for businesses to partner with high schools to enrich career and technical education training.”

Originally published on June 27, 2018
SOURCE: publicsource.org

April 19, 2019
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Pittsburgh leaders open CoLab18 community space, aim to provide equal access to technology

Employment

As the technology industry fuels economic growth in this city, community leaders want to make sure all residents have a chance to participate.

The latest example of that came Wednesday morning at Nova Place, where business, government, and foundational executives helped open CoLab18, a new programming space where people can gain tech skills, learn about entrepreneurship, network, collaborate, and much more in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Northside region.

Born out of the Buhl Foundation’s One Northside Consensus Plan, CoLab18 is the result of a partnership that includes support from organizations like Faros Properties, Comcast, Urban Innovation 21, BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Innovation Works, and the Riverside Center for Innovation.

The 4,600 square-foot space, named after the Northside’s 18 neighborhoods, is designed to be a digital classroom and meeting space for up to 150 local residents at a time, free of charge. It is nestled within Nova Place, a former mall that New York developer Faros Properties recently transformed into a mixed-use urban redevelopment center in Pittsburgh’s historic business district that also houses Alloy 26, the city’s largest coworking space. Comcast will provide high-speed internet while other tech companies like Microsoft plan to engage with CoLab18.

“This innovative partnership brought together the best of our public, private, and non-profit sectors to leverage resources that will create equal access to the many benefits of the changing economy that we’re seeing in Pittsburgh today,” Diana Bucco, president of the Buhl Foundation, said at today’s launch event.

Diana Bucco, president of the Buhl Foundation

As the technology ecosystem grows rapidly in Pittsburgh, from giants like Uber and Google opening offices to the research coming out of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh, many in the city are considering the effect on long-time residents. It’s a relevant topic, particularly as Pittsburgh is a finalist for Amazon’s second headquarters.

“This is moving so fast right now,” Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said on Wednesday. “It’s uneasy; it’s unsettling; it’s scary for a lot of people. But guess what — it’s coming whether we like it or not, so we have to be ahead of it and on top of it, and that’s what places like [CoLab18] are doing.”

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald, part of the local leadership group aiming to land Amazon’s HQ2 bid, recalled a story that the first county executive used to tell about Pittsburgh.

“There were two guys on a park bench and one turned to the other and asked, ‘what would you do if you knew a meteor was going to hit the earth and the world would end in one week?’” he said. “The other guy said, ‘I’d move to Pittsburgh because things always take five years longer to get to Pittsburgh.’”

But the Steel City is a different place in 2018.

“That was true in the late 90s,” Fitzgerald said. “20 years later, we are five years ahead of everybody else. Places like [CoLab18] are the reason that keeps happening.”

Programming at CoLab18 will focus on community collaboration, education, digital engagement and workforce development. Groups like Allegheny Partners for Out of School Time; United Way’s “Be A Middle School Mentor”; BizFIT Construction; and Citizens Bank already plan on holding events like job fairs and financial literacy workshops in the new space.

Amber Farr, director of One Northside, told GeekWire that CoLab18 originated from more than 2,000 interviews conducted by the Buhl Foundation around Northside neighborhoods. Residents expressed interest in a place where people could have access to new technology and related resources.

“This is a space where they can come be creative and dream, where they can learn and they can network,” Farr said.

The excitement was palpable inside CoLab18 on Wednesday, but Riverside Center for Innovation Executive Director Juan Garrett noted that this is just the beginning.

“It’s time for us to roll our sleeves up,” he said, noting that there was already an event scheduled later in the morning. “It’s great that we’re here and it’s time to get to work.”

Originally published on February 14, 2018
SOURCE: GeekWire

April 19, 2019
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CoLab18 to open at Nova Place

Employment

A space where North Side nonprofits, businesses, groups and organizations can gather for meetings or trainings will open Wednesday inside Nova Place.

CoLab18 will be a hub for creativity, problem solving, collaboration and technology, said Juan Garrett, executive director of Riverside Center for Innovation, one of the partners behind the space.

“It’s a space where we can really engage the community in conversation,” Garrett said.

CoLab18, named for the 18 neighborhoods making up Pittsburgh’s North Side, grew out of the One Northside initiative to bring together the area of the city. The Buhl Foundation, Nova Place, Comcast and Urban Innovation 21 formed a partnership last year to support the initiative. Garrett’s Riverside Center, the BNY Mellon Foundation and Innovation Works have also joined.

Riverside Center for Innovation received a $75,000 grant from The Buhl Foundation in December. Comcast has provided gigabyte speed internet throughout Nova Place.

CoLab18 will have meeting rooms and work tables. It will have tablets on hand and have high-speed internet available. The space can accommodate 60 to 100 people, Garrett said, and is open to everyone. CoLab18 will start taking reservations Wednesday. There is no fee to reserve the space, Garrett said.

Garrett said the groups are in talks with Microsoft to provide business training. There will be youth programs focusing on coding and programming. Garrett hopes the space becomes a place people gather to discuss critical issues on the North Side, such as transportation and mobility, workforce development and education.

“It’s going to be a space that is really going to help me introduce technology,” Garrett said.

Originally published on February 13, 2018
SOURCE: TribLive

April 19, 2019
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Employment

  • From Our Kids: The Employment InstituteSeptember 19, 2019 - 3:49 pm
  • Pittsburgh’s new Financial Empowerment Center offers free advice and education in underserved neighborhoodsApril 19, 2019 - 11:14 am
  • College degree? Many Pittsburgh-area jobs in the next decade may not require one.April 19, 2019 - 11:09 am

Education

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