|
IT Ready graduates from women only cohort at EMERGE
EMERGE, a Minneapolis Employment and Training service provider since
1986, provides individual job coaching and a suite of services to youth and
adults at its North Minneapolis and Cedar Riverside locations. Seven job
counselors help those seeking employment and/or training by removing barriers,
matching job seekers with employers, work readiness training, career
exploration, mock interviewing, retention maintenance, transportation
assistance, and provision of interview and work clothes. Minneapolis Employment
and Training also funds individualized train-to-career programs, and an IT
Ready training at EMERGE.
EMERGE’s approach meets people where they are, partners with them, and
ensures that their job search matches their goals. It has
recently adopted a “rolling” cohort model for HIRE Ground, a
self-exploration work readiness workshop which is flexible and responsive,
allowing a participant to join the class any day of the week. The curriculum is
project based and participants can work on projects at their own pace.
EMERGE is particularly proud of its culturally appropriate job readiness workshops
for the East African population served in Cedar Riverside and of the success of
its recent IT Ready women only cohort held at the EMERGE Career & Technology Center in North Minneapolis.
This year, Minneapolis Employment and Training selected EMERGE as a
BUILD Leaders program partner to train disenfranchised young adults, ages 18-24,
to teach youth violence prevention skills to children in North Minneapolis.
Results of EMERGE’s Minneapolis Employment and Training programs from
June 2015 – June 2016:
- 473 clients were served.
- 206 were placed in jobs.
- 39 successfully completed training.
- 27 received industry-recognized credentials or
certificates.
- 161 attended work readiness classes.
-
64% of placements are making $12.00 an hour or
above.
Read more about EMERGE’s successes in the 2015
Annual Report.
City of Minneapolis Employment and Training recently developed a Guide
to Inclusive Hiring for employers interested in exploring and evolving their
hiring systems, while equipping their hiring professionals with new tools.
The Guide is a hands-on tool for evaluating organizational performance
in hiring along a spectrum, with leading practices clearly defined. The hiring
cycle is broken into five components: planning, sourcing, evaluating, hiring
and retaining. As today’s successful organizations increasingly rely on
networks and customized approaches to talent attraction, the Guide offers
employers a template for building successful tactics, while also analyzing
critical, higher-level factors.
The Guide may be viewed, downloaded and printed here.
The City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and Minnesota’s Department of
Employment and Economic Development, in collaboration with our community
partners, invite you to a conversation on inclusive hiring. Leaders whose
specialties encompass diversity and organizational development will share their
experience, challenges, and vision through dialogue with business services
professionals.
Date: Wednesday, July 13
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Location: South Minneapolis WorkForce Center, Room 207, 777 East Lake Street, Minneapolis
- A light breakfast will be provided.
-
Free parking in the Workforce Center lot. Please check in at the main floor reception desk.
STEP-UP kicked off its 13th summer on June 20 with 1,700 Minneapolis
youth and young adults ages 14-21 starting their paid summer internships at
over 230 government agencies, nonprofits, and corporations throughout the Twin
Cities metro area.
“Today the City of Minneapolis gained a whole lot of genius,” said
Mayor Betsy Hodges. “Each and every one of our new interns has unique talents
they bring to the table; we are so excited to have them join our team.”
“We’re so pleased to welcome another STEP-UP intern to the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis this summer,” said Amy Kramer Brenengen, Project
Director for the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. “Our interns give us
an inspiring preview of our future workforce: bright, motivated leaders who
have a rich variety of skills, talents and life experiences to share with us.
We learn as much from them as they do from us.”
 Shania, a 19 year old high school graduate, has been working since the age of 15 in fast food and customer service. While she liked her jobs, she wanted to work one-on-one with people and has always had a passion for helping others. She decided that she’d like to get into nursing but she didn’t know how to take the next step without the tools or the people to help get her there.
Shania knew she needed support so she went to RESOURCE and connected with its Youth Futures Program. With their support, she enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Care (CNA/HHA) program at Lighthouse Training Center. Shania passed the licensing exam and worked with a RESOURCE career counselor to prepare for her job search. She soon got a job at Camden Care as a CNA helping residents with daily living activities.
Shania said, “It is amazing to be able to nurture, care for, and provide for others. I really appreciate the help I have received over the last eight months. I’ve already accomplished so much and I’ve stepped up my goals for the future. I hope to attend college in the fall to work towards my RN, followed by my BSN.”
Minneapolis Employment and Training’s Career Training Assistance program provides Minneapolis jobseekers ages 18 and older with personalized career guidance, skills training, and job search services through contracted community-based agencies such as RESOURCE.
|
On June 17, Minneapolis Employment and Training submitted its 2016 WIOA
Local Plan to DEED. The plan also contained the regional plan for
Minneapolis-St Paul workforce development.
A goal of the plan is to demonstrate partnerships, both long-standing
and newly-emerging, within the local workforce system that supports our work to
address employment disparities. The
input and active leadership of the employer-led local workforce development
board, as well as local elected officials, was fundamental to the plan.
Here’s
the plan.
White House’s TechHire Job
Training Initiative Takes Root in the Twin Cities
Last year the City of Minneapolis joined forces with Prime Digital
Academy, IT Ready, the Software Guild, and 60 regional employers to produce a
well-trained and diverse workforce to help fulfill the needs of the region’s
fast-growing tech industry by providing scholarships at the partner educational
institutions for women and people of color who are residents of Minneapolis and
live on less than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
In its first year, the TechHire initiative trained nearly 320 people - with
200 of them having gone on to get full-time tech jobs at 150 employer partners
throughout the Twin Cities area.
“We have a very high job
placement rate, and we have excellent business partners,” said Deb Bahr-Helgen,
director of the employment and training program at the city of Minneapolis.
“Employers are kind of hungry for new talent.”
Read
the MNPOST story and learn more on the TechHire website.
|
