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A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline Working with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, University City District’s workforce development program, Penn Medicine is creating pathways to science careers for local jobseekers. As COVID-19 testing has ramped up at Penn, a trained staff was needed to take samples from patients and process them in the lab. The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative (WPSI) has helped meet that need. (Image: Dan Burke) Ten years ago, University City District a partnership among local anchor institutions including Penn, small businesses, and neighborhood residents founded the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative (WPSI). The Skills Initiative connects Philadelphians who are under- or unemployed to the region’s major employers, in an effort to move city residents into higher wage, secure careers, from which they have been historically disconnected.

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