LEARNING AREA: Economic Development
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Bridges to Career Opportunities

Author:

LISC

Year:

2021

Description:

Bridges to Career Opportunities (Bridges) is a LISC program that helps chronically unemployed and underemployed adults train for, land, and advance in jobs in local growth industries—sectors such as healthcare, construction, and technology—by helping them overcome the roadblocks to success. The majority of Bridges clients are people of color and women, representing the groups facing the highest systemic obstacles to opportunity in our economy.