Workforce development continues to play an integral role in local strategies to help Philadelphia recover from a pandemic and recession. An ambitious new initiative among corporate and nonprofit leaders is the latest to use reskilling to improve the prospects of unemployed and underemployed residents.

Professional services corporation Accenture is joining the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia Works and Graduate! Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Skills Forward Initiative, an effort to help workers displaced by the pandemic attain new skills and build toward sustainable careers in the process.

As part of the Chamber’s Recharge and Recovery PHL initiative, the Philadelphia Skills Forward initiative has a goal of using three tracks — entrepreneurship, health tech and administration, and IT — to train more than 5,000 individuals over 18 months.

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