The nonprofit organization,ConnCAT, is modeled after the Manchester Bidwell Corp. education center in Pittsburgh. Its job-training programs are designed to equip unemployed and underemployed adults to work in the health sciences and culinary professions, according to the organization’s website.
Yale New Haven will need coders and phlebotomists over the next 10 years, and ConnCAT has trained 40 percent of the phlebotomists working at the hospital, Erik Clemons, ConnCAT president and CEO, told the Press.
The job training helps residents find more stable work, gives them independence and offers “liberation from the suffering of systemic poverty,” Mr. Clemons said.
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