Workforce Development
A trained and skilled workforce is essential to Baltimore’s health and economic growth. We support programs that train low-income, unemployed, and underemployed job seekers and help them find and keep jobs that pay family-sustaining wages.
We prioritize programs that:
The state of Maryland has recognized the potential for registered apprenticeships to both provide a path to better-paying careers that do not require college degrees and to help employers meet their needs for employees with specialized skills. This report explores opportunities for and challenges to expanding apprenticeship in Maryland and Baltimore.
Research has shown that providing teenagers with early work experience can positively affect their employment and earnings later in life and that youth participation in summer employment programs is associated with decreases in criminal activity and increases in school attendance.
And for adults returning from incarceration or who are in recovery, paid work experience addresses the need for immediate income and a supportive environment for learning new job skills.
The Turnaround Tuesday jobs initiative, created by BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development), connects Baltimore’s largest anchor institutions to unemployed neighborhood residents. With support from Abell, Turnaround Tuesday has grown into a significant employment pipeline to Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Medical Center, and MedStar Hospital.
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Header photo courtesy of BioTechnical Institute of Maryland.