Penn-Northwest Explores Job Shadowing Programs for Students
HERMITAGE, Pa. – Penn-Northwest Development Corporation is exploring establishing job shadow days for high school students to visit manufacturing companies.
Jake Rickert, director of workforce development at Penn-Northwest, said the plan fits with the agency’s goals of repopulation.
Keeping young people in the region, “connecting with our local employers, connecting with the community,” he said. “Part of that mission is how can we expand on what we’ve been doing?” READ MORE
More Young People Enter Apprenticeships
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Despite the lack of so-called “mega” projects in the region such as the now finished Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown, building trades in the region are experiencing a steady year that has cleared most union halls for the upcoming summer, labor representatives say.
More encouraging, however, is the rising number of young people expressing interest in joining the trades through apprenticeship programs. The programs provide a pipeline of new talent as a slate of veteran and experienced practitioners retire. READ MORE
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Lake to River Partners with Flying High
Lake to River Economic Development is partnering with Flying High Inc. to support workforce needs throughout Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties. The two organizations will work to provide employment support services, training and job placement. READ MORE
Foundation Program LIFTs People Up for the Trades
Bethany Suntheimer always wanted to be a truck driver, but she was working two jobs and couldn’t afford to take time off for the required training. READ MORE
Our Mission:
The operations of Ultium Cells, Foxconn and large and midsize companies in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys means more higher-level manufacturing jobs. The same is true across the small-business community as companies expand and create jobs.
But the region lacks the workers to fill these jobs. So, efforts have turned to repopulation, bringing former residents back, enticing new residents to relocate here and persuading young people to stay here.
Affordable, available housing must figure into the repopulation equation. We want these workers to live in our communities, raise their families here and contribute to the tax base.
