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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved the $250,000 American Rescue Plan Act, (ARPA) funds for the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development’s (MOED) apprenticeship initiative. MOED’s  Employer Services division will lead the apprenticeship program as part of MOED’s overall workforce strategy to help Baltimore employers and residents overcome the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds offer incentives to Baltimore City employers to create apprenticeship opportunities that provide paid on-the-job skills training to workers.

BALTIMORE, MD. (Friday, March 25, 2022) —Mayor Brandon M. Scott issued a “call-to-action” to encourage area employers to participate in the City’s summer jobs program, YouthWorks.

The Baltimore Workforce Development Board (“Board”) is seeking responses to a Request for Proposals for a One-Stop Operator for Baltimore City’s One-Stop Career Centers. The One-Stop Career Centers are proud partners of the American Job Center network. The One-Stop Operator will coordinate the service delivery of required one-stop partners and service providers of core program partners and other required partners working with both comprehensive One-Stop Centers.

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, Baltimore City’s Mayor Brandon Scott will hold a press conference at the Jane Addams Resource Center to formally announce Train Up - a free job training to unemployed and underemployed Baltimore City residents impacted by COVID-19.

Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Jason W. Mitchell has announced that recruitment is now underway for the 2022 Class of YH2O Career Mentoring Program participants. This award-winning, job-readiness program helps to prepare young adults in Baltimore City for public works careers.

Train Up: Community Connections For Baltimore City Residents in the COVID-19 Economic Recovery The Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED), on behalf of the Mayor and City Council, requests proposals for community-based organizations that will conduct intensive, neighborhood-based outreach to unemployed and underemployed residents in Baltimore City who are in need of training, employment and/or support services and who were impacted by the COVID-19 economic crisis. 

This brief is the first in a series of articles published by the Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Employment Development on citywide data trends and their implications for the workforce. We hope that through publishing these, we will engage thought leaders and workforce stakeholders on how to build an equitable workforce system.

$30 Million to Expand Workforce Development and Job Placements for Youth and Disadvantaged Job Seekers; $25 Million Economic Recovery Fund to Support Nonprofits, Artists, Small Businesses, and Childcare Providers

$25 Million of New Grants in Nine Cities and Two States Brings Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Support of High-Quality Career Training Partnerships to $90 Million

The Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED), on behalf of the Mayor and City Council, requests proposals for adult education services as part of the Train Up program to help residents obtain their GED and/or improve their grade levels in literacy and/or math so that they can more easily access occupational skills training programs and/or so that they can enter employment with higher literacy levels.