Accenture Teams with St. Louis Promise Zone to Launch New Program to Provide Technology Skilling & Job Placement for Mid-Care...
June 03 2019 - 11:29AM
Business Wire
Accenture brings its national professional
apprentice program to St. Louis to help local residents create new
career pathways
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and the St. Louis Promise Zone — a federal
program that advances economic activity and career mobility in
high-poverty areas — have launched a new program to help Promise
Zone residents develop the skills they need to pursue the rapidly
growing number of information technology (IT) jobs in the St. Louis
area.
The new program — called “My Path, My Future” — will help
individuals who work in at-risk jobs, or are unemployed and have
few resources to build new skills to transition to new careers.
According to recent research by the Brookings Institute, 45 percent
of the tasks that people in St. Louis perform in their jobs have
the potential of being automated, putting some jobs at risk.
Accenture will also bring its national apprenticeship program to
St. Louis, offering individuals IT training and a pathway to
employment with the company.
“Professional apprenticeships can play an important role in
creating opportunities for individuals who might not otherwise have
access to digital economy jobs, while helping to close the skills
gap for employers,” said Julie Sweet, Accenture’s CEO – North
America. “People are this city’s greatest source of competitive
advantage, and together with the St. Louis Promise Zone and our
skilling partners, we are helping make St. Louis, its people and
its economy stronger.”
Program partners — which include CyberUp, Family and Workforce
Centers of America, LaunchCode, NPower, St. Louis Agency on
Training and Employment (SLATE), St. Louis County Human Services,
and the State of Missouri — will provide participants with
opportunities to develop technical skills, complemented by
work-based learning opportunities or professional apprenticeships
with local-area businesses. Lyft has also signed on to provide
transportation for individuals participating in the program.
“This public-private partnership is designed to put families on
a path toward achieving economic success,” said Erica Henderson,
executive director and vice president of community investment and
real estate at the St. Louis Promise Zone. “The intentionality
around equitable workforce opportunities and expanding access to
education, training and employment in the Promise Zone footprint is
critical to transforming our region and having a substantive,
generational and economic impact.”
The My Path, My Future program began recruiting its first cohort
in March, with the intent of placing individuals into training
programs during the summer and with prospective employers by the
end of the year.
“The availability of technology roles in St. Louis will continue
to grow, and it’s important for employers to make these jobs more
accessible to wider pools of talent,” said Michael Gallagher,
managing director of Accenture’s St. Louis office. “We look forward
to welcoming our first cohort of apprentices to Accenture and
seeing the impact they make on our business.”
St. Louis joins Accenture’s growing national apprentice program,
which is currently offered in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus,
Detroit, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
The national program will have 450 apprentices trained by the end
of 2019.
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and operations in 42 cities in the United States. Visit us
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About the St. Louis Promise Zone
The St. Louis Promise Zone program partners with local leaders
to give communities proven tools to rebuild and put people
back to work. The federal program launched in 2013,
designates high-poverty urban, rural and tribal communities as
Promise Zones in order to increase economic activity, improve
educational outcomes, reduce serious and violent crime, invest in
transformative development and improve health and wellness. The
Promise Zone, designated in 2015, encompasses portions of the
City of St. Louis and St. Louis County.
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