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Impact Center to host untapped manufacturing training, Gwen—s Girls and community-service slots for youth
Summary
The Impact Center will host NCUS Tech—s Untapped Manufacturing youth track beginning Jan. 5, Gwen—s Girls parent-engagement and pre-diversion services, and a weekly community-service partnership with Allegheny County juvenile probation, presenters told the board.
The board heard three Impact Center presentations outlining workforce and youth supports the district will host or partner to deliver.
Terrence Star, program manager for NCUS Tech Pittsburgh, announced the Untapped Manufacturing program launching at the Willing Hills Impact Center with classes due to begin Jan. 5. The program serves youth ages 16–24 (an adult track exists), is free to participants, uses Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) curriculum and includes wraparound services. Star said NCUS Tech has trained 123 students in Pittsburgh with a 100% graduation rate and 85% placement to employment; he cited an example of a graduate who participated in EOS Energy—s groundbreaking. Star said the program is funded by the Richard King Mellon Foundation for a two-year expansion in the region and that the youth track targets over 100 graduates in the first year at the Impact Center.
Denise Miguel Delaney described Gwen—s Girls, a nonprofit serving girls 8–18, and explained planned Impact Center offerings including parent engagement, Care Connections (a pre-arrest/pre-diversion program that connects families to services and follows them for up to a year), and small-group behavioral-health services. Delaney said after-school site capacity typically runs about 30 per site and that care-connections and parent engagement are the planned initial rollouts at the Impact Center; clinical services would follow once staff and licensing are in place.
Justin Davis described a community-service partnership with Allegheny County juvenile probation. The program places court-ordered youth at Impact Center projects (library organization, beautification) on Tuesdays from 4–7 p.m. Davis said participants are court ordered (consent decree or adjudicated) and that the county will route appropriate candidates to the center rather than solicit non-court-ordered participants.
Board members asked operational questions about eligibility, whether background checks apply, transportation and wraparound supports. Presenters said transportation supports, stipends, clothing assistance and ongoing career coaching are part of program designs where needed. The board asked staff to circulate flyers and public information for the upcoming program start dates and community events (Thanksgiving meal and Holiday light-up).
