Team PA’s Career Readiness Mini-Grants are now open for application. These awards of up to $5,000 are available thanks to a Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Strategic Innovation Grant received by Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA)…
Workforce #ChartOfTheWeek Recently, I have been using this chart at the beginning of many of my presentations to educators, businesses and other community leaders…
SCPa Works is excited to partner on two projects that explore new opportunities to advance skills in our region…
Workforce #ChartOfTheWeek | Annual Projected Occupational Gaps The term “skills gap” is used within workforce development circles with great frequency…
Over the past few months the York County Careerlink® and the York Literacy Council have combined efforts to provide a pipeline of candidates for the Health Care Industry in York County…
Franklin County talk highlights worker shortage SCOTLAND, Pa. — The area’s economic growth is bringing a people problem with it, Jesse McCree said Thursday. McCree is chief executive officer of SCPa Works, a regional workforce development organization…
$325,000 grant to be used for supporting growth and retention of PA businesses SCPa Works and the South Central Partners in Regional Economic Performance (PREP) recently kicked off a new initiative designed to support the growth and retention of Pennsylvania businesses…
CAEDC, Leadership Cumberland & Area School Districts Partner on Workforce Development Study CUMBERLAND VALLEY, PA (February 1, 2018) – Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation (CAEDC), Leadership Cumberland and select Cumberland County school districts are collaborating on a study to determine if any stigma exists for students attending vocational technical schools…
EARN Program RFP 2018-2021 SCPa Works, through this RFP, competitively seeks one or more qualified providers to deliver comprehensive career development, work readiness, placement and retention services to CAO clients who are referred to EARN programming in the South Central Region…
Written By: Carissa Gurgul In Pennsylvania, more than 86,000 people work in the clean energy industry, outnumbering the amount of people that work in fossil fuel industries. While clean energy jobs account for approximately 1…
The Gainful Employment (GE) rule imposes the Higher Education Act’s requirement that all career education programs getting federal aid “prepare their students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation” (Student Aid)…
Written By: Carissa Gurgul With unemployment at a record low, there are currently more job openings than there are employees to fill these positions. Although ~82% of surveyed people say they would remain loyal to their current employer, a study by Work Institute predicts that in 2018, 28…
