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Allegheny County
Community Kitchen PGH
www.ckpgh.org/enrollment
12-week program
• training in culinary arts
• supportive services
• job placement to individuals with barriers to employment
• trained in food handling safety and sanitation
• graduate with ServSafe Managers certification
*No records of a sexual nature
Contact
107 Flowers Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15207
(412) 246-4736
Service Offered
County
Job Corps
https://pittsburgh.jobcorps.gov
(Currently operating through distance learning)
Jobs Corps offers a variety of free trade training courses such as automotive and machine repair, construction, health care, homeland security, hospitality, and transportation.
Jobs Corps provides housing for their students, but no one is required to stay in their facilities.
Contact
7175 Highland Dr
Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1205
800-733-5627
Service Offered
County
Partner 4 Work
https://partner4work.org/
Career Link is the service Partner 4 Work utilizes to place individuals in jobs and they accept people with all types of convictions.
Contact
Andy Smith, Director of Adult Workforce Programs
(412) 932-2957
for details and further inquiries.
Service Offered
County
People Ready
https://peopleready.com and search for Pittsburgh to apply.
They have a variety of job options such as trades, construction, hospitality, warehouse and distribution, etc.
*Will consider all people for employment although it may be difficult placing people into jobs if the offense was violent or of a sexual nature
Contact
19 35th St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
(412) 683-1724
Service Offered
County
Trade Institute of Pittsburgh
https://tipgh.org
10-week program
• personal skill building
• labor/masonry skill building
• job placement assistance
• jobs starting at $15/hour
• provides mandatory weekly counseling and assigns a case worker
*No records of a sexual nature
Contact
7800 Susquehanna Street, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh PA 15208
(412) 243-2970
Service Offered
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