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"Jobs You've Never Heard Of" Come To Class

by | Nov 8, 2023 12:11 pm | Comments (1)

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Nataly Magana with a doll she uses to help explain to child hospital patients what they're going through.

Nataly Magana told a classroom full of New Haven Academy students that she once considered becoming a teacher herself.

But instead she took a different career path — one that also involves counseling young people in need and helping them stay calm and flourish amidst challenging circumstances — as a certified child life specialist at Yale New Haven Hospital.

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Fingers Crossed On Passage Of $2M Program Preparing High Schoolers For Manufacturing Jobs

by | Oct 25, 2021 1:03 pm | Comments (5)

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Cross Principal Edith Johnson, Jamison Scott, Rosa DeLauro, Iline Tracey, Justin Elicker, Ivelise Velazquez.

New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) leaders have their fingers crossed that a U.S. House-passed bill promising to create a college-credited manufacturing program for local high schoolers will also pass the Senate next month.

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Amazon, State Unveil Cloud Job-Training Initiative At Community Colleges

by | Oct 19, 2021 8:25 am | Comments (4)

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Participants sign off on AWS training program Monday.

The state is partnering with its community colleges and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Connecticut residents with technology training opportunities to fill some of the 40,000 posted computing cloud” jobs available as of last year.

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Pipeline Proposed For Minority Contracting

by | Feb 10, 2021 10:33 am | Comments (16)

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Construction on the new Q House.

Reward construction firms with a history of hiring women and Black and Latinx workers. Hold companies that fail to meet those goals accountable. And create more of an apprenticeship pipeline.”

Those and other ideas emerged Tuesday night at the latest task force session on improving city affirmative action laws for contractors and construction workers.

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ConnCAT Scores $1M

by | Jan 25, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (1)

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Highsmith, Clemons, Copeland, and Key Bank Connecticut President f Jeff Hubbard.

A woman in the phlebotomy training class had been doing well, and then not. Then she dropped out completely.

Staff figured out the problem: She had become homeless. They put her in touch with an agency that could help. She got a place to live, she returned to the phlebotomy program, she graduated, and she is now gainfully employed.

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Workforce Board Asked Where Money’s Going

by | Jul 19, 2015 5:30 pm | Comments (5)

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Cirello voted no.

It seemed like an routine board meeting called to approve a worker retraining agency’s $16.7 million budget for the new fiscal year.

Then some members started asking for details — and the debate was on, about how transparent the agency is not just with the public, but with its own board.

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