TranZed Apprenticeships, a nonprofit registered national apprenticeship provider and affiliate of The Children’s Guild Alliance, received a $212,500 PAsmart Registered Apprenticeship Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
“We at The Children’s Guild Alliance want to empower all young people to grow into successful adults with the means to learn, develop their skills and enter into successful careers,” said Jenny Livelli, president and CEO of The Children’s Guild Alliance. “One way we do this is through TranZed Apprenticeships, which connects growing professionals to businesses in need of talent. We’re grateful to Pennsylvania for helping our effort.”
The grant supports TranZed Apprenticeships’ DiverseIT initiative which focuses on areas throughout Pennsylvania where industry leaders have expressed a need to diversify and enrich their talent pool. Through DiverseIT, TranZed marries untapped talent with employer need via registered apprenticeships. TranZed Apprenticeships is recruiting for 12 apprentices to fill vacancies in Pennsylvania.
“Registered apprenticeship is a workforce solution that levels the playing field and allows passionate, motivated individuals from all backgrounds an opportunity to upskill themselves and start their careers in tech,” said Paul Champion, president of TranZed Apprenticeships. “Apprenticeships come from partnerships between companies, which we’re working to build in Pennsylvania thanks in part to the PAsmart grant.”
TranZed Apprenticeships placed an information technology apprentice with Morefield Communications in Pennsylvania earlier this year. The apprentice graduated from TranZed Apprenticeships’ pre-apprenticeship partner NuPaths, a technology training organization. The pre-apprenticeship program provides apprentices with the skills necessary to meet the requirements of employers on day one, while the apprenticeship program supports and trains apprentices throughout their first year of employment.
“Apprenticeship programs are a great way for workers to advance their skills with on-the-job training while earning a paycheck,” said former Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak in a press release. “PAsmart was created as part of a broad strategy to increase job training for workers and strengthen our state’s workforce. Through these competitive grants, Pennsylvania is training and retraining workers and creating a more productive, diverse, and skilled labor force that our growing industries want.”
TranZed Apprenticeships, an affiliate of The Children’s Guild Alliance, works to advance modern apprenticeships throughout the U.S. and offers apprenticeship programs developed to address the need for alternative career paths. Apprenticeships combine on-the-job, competency and project-based training with job-related classroom instruction. They offer an earn-and-learn model where apprentices earn money starting their first day and receive pay increases as they gain additional skills and master their occupations. (tranzedapprenticeships.com)
