Pennsylvania grant & resource directory - pa house

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY
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GRANT/LOAN
Regional Career Education Partnerships for Youth
(RCEPs) – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania established
Regional Career Education Partnerships for Youth (RCEPs)
to help students (and their parents) make informed choices
about the education and training they need to pursue careers
in high growth industries so that they can acquire jobs that
are in demand and earn higher wages. These RCEPs work to
give students better opportunities to gain the knowledge and
skills critical for success in college and careers.
Over the past two years, almost 235,000 students have
connected to more than 9,000 businesses that provide them
with career awareness and work based learning opportunities
like job shadowing, mentoring, paid and unpaid internships,
and apprenticeships. It is proven that when these kinds of
experiences are combined with rigorous academics and career
related skills development; students are more successful
in high school and through post secondary education, and
ultimately on the job.
Employers visit classrooms and talk to students about the
knowledge, skills, and education levels that they will need to
get the good paying jobs of the future. Employers also work
with teachers to help develop lesson plans and even open
their doors to provide teachers and counselors educator in the
workplace opportunities, many times offering Act 48 credits.
Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers – The
Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers is an initiative
of the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board and
serves as a catalyst to develop action-oriented strategies to
respond to Pennsylvania’s short and long-term health care
workforce challenges. The initiatives of the Center for Health
Careers focus on four distinct issues currently affecting
healthcare: increasing the capacity of Pennsylvania’s nursing
education system; retaining healthcare workers in healthcare
professions; responding to the demand for critical allied health
professionals; and addressing the needs of direct care workers.
Pennsylvania’s health care workforce is projected to grow by
more than 6,000 positions each year through 2014. In order
to sustain this growth and meet Pennsylvania’s health care
needs in the near future, an estimated 15,000 health care
job openings will need to be filled each year in addition to
addressing critical labor shortages already in existence in
such fields as nursing, pharmacy, medical technology, and
direct care. The demand for health care services and a strong,
dependable workforce will also intensify as the leading edge
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