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SHRM Highlights Persevere’s Work with Opporunity Youth

We are excited to announce that SHRM has featured our impactful work with opportunity youth! These young individuals, aged 16 to 24, are neither working nor in school and represent an untapped talent pool with immense potential. Persevere’s programs empower them with the skills needed to break cycles of poverty and incarceration. SHRM highlights the benefits of hiring opportunity youth for addressing workforce talent shortages and fulfilling social responsibility goals. We are proud of this recognition and remain committed to creating lasting change for these young people and the broader community.

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Callie Unruh May 30, 2024
Arizona

San Quinten State Prison Features Persevere Arizona Program

Persevere, a Tennessee-based business, has their coding program in four prisons, in the state of Arizona. The organization works with incarcerated people in four Arizona facilities, teaching computer coding to help reduce recidivism rates, according to Axios Phoenix.

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Randy Hansen April 26, 2024
Florida

Program aims to help Wakulla Correctional Institute inmates learn web development, life skills

On Friday, WCI “formally celebrated” the Persevere Program coming to its facility. Persevere is a year-long course focusing on training inmates to become full-stack web developers. It includes life skills classes and the opportunity to get help with transitional housing, according to officials. Persevere launched our Florida classes at 2 facilities at the end of 2023. In March 2024 we had an official ribbon cutting to launch the program. – Source: WCTV News Florida

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WCTV News Florida April 26, 2024
Talking Tech - Communicating Technical Concepts
Coding

Tech Talk Blog: Learning To Code

Learning how to code can be incredibly challenging. New developers often discover that even once they’re able to build something, they struggle to articulate how it works. The ability to communicate technical concepts is essential, especially when seeking job opportunities in the development world.

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Kate Rogers February 7, 2024
National Institute to Unlock Potential

Unlock Potential on Nashville Newschannel 5

America is currently home to more than 4 million youth aged 16-24 (which has increased after the pandemic) who aren’t in school or working. They are known as Opportunity Youth because of their potential value to our communities and economies. Young Black and Latino people are up to three-to-six times more likely to be disconnected than whites. Youth of color are far more likely to suffer adverse outcomes like poverty and incarceration, which increases for those that have experienced foster care, human trafficking, juvenile justice involvement, and parental incarceration.

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Nashville Newschannel 5 November 30, 2023
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