FSCJ Announces New Workforce and Employment Initiative for Duval County Students

WHAT: Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) will announce the launch of Pathways to Work, a new workforce and employment initiative for high school students to prepare and place them in entry-level high-demand occupations in Construction/Trades, Culinary Arts and Global Logistics industries. 

Using existing FSCJ outreach programs at Andrew Jackson and William M. Raines high schools and A. Philip Randolph Career Academies, Pathways to Work will identify approximately 60 Duval County high school juniors and seniors with high-economic need, who are generally at risk for graduation and consequently, have limited opportunity to attain “living wage” employment.

The Pathways to Work learn-and-earn training model will help students transform their lives by earning a postsecondary workforce certificate to access immediate employment on completion of the program and acquire educational credentials along a trajectory toward an associate or bachelor’s degree. 

The first year of this pilot program will be funded by an investment from a private donor. 

WHEN:          Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:30 a.m.

WHERE:        Florida State College at Jacksonville

                       Advanced Technology Center, Room T-141       

                      401 West State St., Jacksonville, FL 32202