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Fairfield County highlights growing pre-apprenticeships as transit launches PINGO app
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County workforce officials reported growth in training programs — including 100 pre-apprenticeship students and a new plumbing pre-apprenticeship — and said local health and education partners are offering jobs and tuition help; transit staff also began a soft launch of the PINGO rider/dispatch app.
Fairfield County officials on May 5 said local workforce training programs are expanding enrollment and employer connections while county transit rolls out a new rider and dispatch app.
Deshawn Toney, deputy director for Economic and Workforce Development, said the Workforce Center has 100 students enrolled in pre-apprenticeships, 230 in career readiness programs, 46 in driver’s education and 28 in phlebotomy programs. Toney said a new…
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