The Atlanta Workforce Development Agency has been awarded a $4 million federal grant to support its ATL TechHire initiative to give participants code-writing and career-oriented skills.
The U.S. Department of Labor TechHire grant will go to a program led by the Workforce Agency in partnership with TechSquare Labs, which will offer culture fit, corporate innovation and career readiness programs, and The Iron Yard, which will run fast-track coding boot camps.
Participants will train for jobs in front- and back-end engineering, mobile engineer, data science and design, according to a city news release. The city’s Department of Information Management has committed to fill 20 percent of its FY 2016 job openings with graduates of the Atlanta TechHire Initiative.
The TechHire grant program focuses on youth and young adults, ages 17 to 29, facing barriers to employment as well as veterans and people with disabilities, limited English proficiency, criminal records and long-term unemployment, the city says.
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