District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund | Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Workplace
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The Fall, 2011 issue of Cascade, a Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia community development publication, features Workforce Development Partnership Serves Employers and Employees - an article by Training Fund Executive Director Cheryl Feldman. Feldman contends that there is a healthcare workforce development crisis in the city that is exacerbated by “…candidates’ lack of basic skills. Literacy skills are essential in the health-care field. The health-care industry, which constituted 20.8 percent of private employment in Philadelphia in 2009, has shown growth during the recession, but new jobs require literate, trained employees.” To read more Click here The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund recently hosted Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who toured the Training Fund's Breslin Learning Center in order to get a first hand view of how our labor-management partnership has been able to take thousands of underprepared adults and at-risk youth and steer them onto a career pathway that leads to high quality jobs. "For over three decades the Training Fund has been integrating basic skills within occupational training which has become a national model," explained Cheryl Feldman, executive director of the Training Fund. Secretary Solis said of the District 1199C model, "I think this is a great model that we would love to see replicated." You can read about the Secretaries visit to the Fund and to the Community College summit on Transitioning Adult Learners to Community Colleges and the Workforce in the Philadelphia Inquirer or the Associated Press article.
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1199C Training Fund News
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President Henry Nicholas joins Secretary Hilda Solis in instructing a group of students from the Training Fund’s Health Information Program on the career development information available on Department of Labor websites. 
