# @shippensburgu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CfKGmWoFKpz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16323506-shippensburgu-instagram
- **Posted:** 2022-06-23T18:54:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shippensburg University (@shippensburgU) — https://gondola.cc/shippensburgU

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The PA Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier visited a Harrisburg-area grocery store Wednesday to celebrate the first group of The GIANT Company and Bake Crafters employees to successfully complete an innovative program to upskill agribusiness workers while they earn a paycheck. The project is supported by the passhefoundation and a recent $250,000 Industry Partnership Grant from Labor & Industry.

The program is a partnership of The GIANT Company giant, Bake Crafters, Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Foundation, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Shippensburg University, hacc_edu , Central Pennsylvania's Community College, and SCPa Works, the South Central Workforce Investment Board.

Twenty employees – including floor managers, bakery managers, front-end managers, HR generalists and warehouse directors — completed the program. Each learned valuable skills that are necessary to sustainable and growth-driven business practices such as increasing sales and asset protection; forecasting and increasing supply efficiencies; as well as practical techniques to become stronger and more inclusive leaders.

“The knowledge that these 20 individuals gained through this experience will serve them for the rest of their careers. A worker who possesses a skillset that employers need is a worker who can reliably earn a competitive wage in a job they like and with an employer who treats them well. That is why the Wolf Administration is so focused on workforce development programs that build skillsets,” said Secretary Berrier.

The Industry Partnership funding from L&I will be used to expand the partnership to include additional employers; offer the leadership program opportunity to additional employees, including dislocated workers; recruit new employees, particularly from underserved populations, into the agribusiness industry; and incorporate key career-readiness activities to further fuel participants’ socioeconomic mobility and career growth. #ShipIsIt #workforcedevelopmentprogram #skillsets #partnerships #success #careerreadiness

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workforcedevelopmentprogram, partnerships, success, skillsets, shipisit, careerreadiness

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