We’ll help you find your path to a career
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Healthcare & Office Operations
11-week program starts
January 2025
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Career Path
STRIVE New Orleans will begin classes in June of 2024 with STRIVE's signature Career Path program. Grounded in evidence and proven practice, Career Path includes a dynamic combination of curricula, job readiness training, coaching and occupational skills for students to build the hire-ready toolkit that employers demand.
Strong employer partnerships inform the program and ensure graduates start careers with opportunities to advance. Given the high industry demand of the region, this pilot program will offer an on-ramp to careers in nonclinical healthcare.Long-term support and wrap-around services ensure conditions for success in the classroom and beyond.
STRIVE Healthcare & Office Operations graduate Brooke continued her education and today works as a Certified Surgical Technician
““Ochsner is pleased to partner with STRIVE New Orleans in creating accessible entry points to healthcare careers. Our industry has an ongoing need for fully trained and credentialed candidates to fill key roles that offer great benefits and opportunity for growth, and we can trust STRIVE to connect us with the quality talent we seek.””
Angela Shiloh Cryer named Founding Executive Director of STRIVE New Orleans
A celebrated nonprofit change agent whose public service career spans over two decades, Ms. Shiloh Cryer has over 35 years’ experience in administration and implementation of government programs and has worked in the nonprofit area for over 25 years. She has a passion for working in her community and has primarily focused on equitable systems change in re-entry and workforce development.
Ms. Shiloh Cryer comes to STRIVE from New Orleans Business Alliance (NOLABA), the official economic development organization for the City of New Orleans where Ms. Shiloh Cryer served as the Senior Director of Advancing Cities/Talent Partnerships. Ms. Shiloh Cryer has a long history with STRIVE, serving as the head of STRIVE’s highly successful partnership with The City of New Orleans to deliver services beginning in 2015.
““As a proud lifelong resident of New Orleans, I am overjoyed to take the reins as Founding Executive Director of STRIVE New Orleans. I am committed to serving our community and leading the charge for holistic economic healing and growth and social progress for our residents, who have long experienced equity disparities. I know what the power of STRIVE can do for people who are ready for real change—I have seen it with my own eyes. This is a time for great celebration in the Crescent City and I am dedicated to continuing my work creating positive change and growth and eliminating equity barriers for a better New Orleans for all,””
Bringing economic empowerment and mobility to the Crescent City
STRIVE New Orleans will open with STRIVE’s signature Career Path program, which will offer students full-service pathways to in-demand careers and opportunities for advancement in Non-Clinical Healthcare. The time-tested success of STRIVE Career Path is grounded in evidence and proven practice through our 5-Pillar training model, offering an innovative blend of career readiness, coaching and in-demand occupational skills for students to build the ready-to-work toolkit that today’s employers seek in a new hire.
STRIVE affiliate program graduate in New Orleans, 2015.
STRIVE roots run deep in New Orleans
We are proud of our longstanding and impactful partnerships with local organizations serving the city of New Orleans, dating back to 2015.
Together with city officials, philanthropic leaders, local employers and community and affiliate service programs, STRIVE has worked to support the most economically at-risk residents of New Orleans with pathways to an empowered future for themselves and their families.
““We deeply value our longstanding and impactful partnership with STRIVE in serving young people from New Orleans with their winning job readiness training and services. STRIVE programming is accessible for our Interns and provides the tools and supports to connect them to their professional and personal ambitions. STRIVE really works, and we welcome their permanent presence in our community with the official opening of STRIVE New Orleans.””
STRIVE graduates with New Orleans partners in 2015
As a national leader in workforce development STRIVE is committed to helping those facing the toughest societal barriers to employment access the training and support needed to build a family-sustaining career.
We work to support the regions and communities of our nation that continue to be systemically disconnected from economic mobility and opportunity, providing a bridge to the gap and a pathway to empowerment.
Who comes to STRIVE?
Since 1984, STRIVE has helped over 85,000 individuals find their path toward economic mobility through the power of good jobs that lead to great careers. Our students come to us ready to work and determined to succeed despite the societal barriers they face.
92% of STRIVE students are BIPOC, 78% receive public services and 41% are parents of minors.
Graduates of STRIVE programming earn LIFETIME ACCESS to NO-COST career support and wraparound services because at STRIVE, we know the road to success is never simple, easy or a straight shot. But no matter what barriers our students and graduates come up against along their path to a career, they can trust that there is a home in STRIVE for upskilling, resume polishing or to access the support, resources and security all people need while navigating employment challenges.
As STRIVE New Orleans grows, additional career pathway programming with proven success for STRIVE students--construction, maintenance, logistics among others--will be offered to provide greater choice, access and opportunity for those facing society’s toughest barriers to quality employment and economic mobility—including the justice impacted and returning citizens.
““The Greater New Orleans Foundation is proud to serve as the convener of the NOW Funders Collaborative and grateful for the opportunity to support STRIVE in building a permanent home in our great city of New Orleans. We have witnessed the phenomenal impact STRIVE’s proven career-readiness training model has on the economic mobility of individuals and their communities, and we look forward to working with STRIVE New Orleans for years to come.””
Thanks to our early supporters and New Orleans Steering Committee
STRIVE New Orleans (Temporary Location starting April 15)
New Orleans Career Center
1331 Kerlerec Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
