Please join Governor Mark Dayton and other dignitaries for the 800 West Broadway groundbreaking ceremony
Tuesday, December 1, 9:30 - 10:40 a.m.
2nd floor above Walgreens, 627 West Broadway Ave., Minneapolis
(Please use the NW entrance, not the main store entrance.)
Agenda
9:30 a.m......Networking and refreshments
10:00 a.m......Remarks
10:30 a.m......Groundbreaking at 800 West Broadway site
Scheduled to open in the fall of 2016, 800 West Braodway is a unique collaborative, opening doors for individual and community success. Tenants include: North Minneapolis Workforce Center (DEED), NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, and the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Complete project details are available here.
Please join Minneapolis Employment and Training in honoring HIRED and Lifetrack Resources for their great work assisting Minneapolis residents to develop their academic, life, and work skills; identify career pathways; obtain industry-recognized credentials; and achieve meaningful employment.
The 2015 Partners of the Year awards will be presented by the Minneapolis Community Development &
Regulatory Services Committee.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:30 p.m.
Minneapolis City Council Chambers, Minneapolis City Hall
A
reception will follow the committee meeting in Room 319 of City Hall.
Since 1982, City of Minneapolis
Employment and Training has selected two agencies each year to receive the Award
for Outstanding Service.
City of Minneapolis has named Anna Peterson Director of the STEP-UP
Youth Employment Program. Anna had served as the STEP-UP Program Manager since
January, 2015. Prior to that Anna was
Manager of Training and Data at STEP-UP Achieve with AchieveMpls.
Anna holds an Ed.M. from the Teachers College of Columbia University
and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities.
Previous STEP-UP Director Tammy Dickinson is the new Career Pathways
Coordinator at City of Minneapolis.
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On November 17th, CPED’s Deb Bahr-Helgen and Rose Lindsay, along with
other city staff and TechHire partners, traveled to Baltimore for the White
House TechHire Gathering/Community Summit. At the summit they heard U.S. Chief
Technology Officer Megan Smith, Cabinet Secretary and Chair of the My Brother’s
Keeper Task Force Broderick Johnson, and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez
announce new steps to advance the President’s TechHire initiative and to expand
opportunities to underrepresented Americans in the technology industry to get
trained and placed into well-paying tech jobs. With three established alternative
tech learning programs and more than 60 committed employers on board,
Minneapolis was one of the first cities to be named a TechHire City.
In Baltimore, the Administration announced new steps to ensure that
Americans get access to these good paying jobs including the Department of
Labor’s announcement of a $100 million TechHire grant competition. This competition will fund collaborations
that can rapidly train and connect workers to well-paying, high-growth jobs
across industries such as information technology, healthcare, and advanced
manufacturing. The Administration also announced the release of $20 million of
Training to Work grant funds to expand access to tech jobs and other high
growth occupations for those formerly incarcerated.
After the announcement, networking and breakout sessions helped
community leaders, employers, training providers, and TechHire partners
collaborate on best practices.
A highlight of the day, was when Victor Chege, a new City of Minneapolis
IT Desk Service Agent and a graduate of a TechHire training program, shared his
inspiring story of how he gained the skills he needed and landed a job with the
City of Minneapolis.
Learn more about Minneapolis TechHire here.
In the midst of a labor shortage, some companies are finding success
hiring the so-called unemployables, such as those with a criminal record. The
matchmaker is Minnesota’s only alternative staffing agency, EmergeWORKS, operated by EMERGE, a Minneapolis Employment and Training employment service provider.
While some industries simply can’t hire people with
certain criminal records, Sue Von, enterprise manager at EmergeWORKS, is ready
with persuasive arguments why most employers should reconsider this undervalued
resource. Her biggest reason is that these people are so happy to have a job
that they tend to stick with it.
Read the whole article from the Minnesota Business Magazine here.
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