Chattanooga, TN offers Google IT certification job skills training program to low-income residents

Chattanooga, TN IT job skills training program

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The city of Chattanooga partnered with Chattanooga State, The Enterprise Center, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce and the American Jobs Center to launch a Google information technology certification training program. The program provides training in computer software, a $4,500 stipend, and child care to help lower income individuals improve their job skills. The program was also designed to boot the local economy by supplying more works for one of the most in-demand occupations.

IT Economic Development Digital Services Training & Development

Chattanooga, TN

Municipality in Tennessee

United States

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Chattanooga, Tenn., Program Helps Certify Workers for Google

The Google information technology certification course provides training in computer software and maintenance, as well as a $4,500 stipend and child care to help lower-income workers improve job skills and income.

IT Skill-up program comes to Chattanooga to train workers for in-demand jobs | Chattanooga Times Free Press

In a small classroom in the city's Office of Family Empowerment on the Westside just a couple of blocks from where recent shootings claimed the lives of three local residents, 11 individuals on Monday launched a new training program that both participants and leaders expect could change the students' lives and careers and help local businesses to grow.

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