350 Newark Residents Earn Job Pledges With RWJBarnabas Health

NEWARK, NJ — A group of 350 Newark residents have earned job pledges with RWJBarnabas Health through a work readiness partnership with the city, officials say.

Earlier this month, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and RWJBarnabas Health held a graduation ceremony for their fourth class of Hire Newark Employment Ready Boot Camp participants. According to RWJBarnabas Health spokespeople, this is the first class to include participants who applied through the Newark2020 website, which is part of the Mayor Ras Baraka’s “Hire.Buy.Live” initiative.

RWJBarnabas Health has pledged to hire 350 Newark residents as part of that commitment, hospital spokespeople said.

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According to the hospital, the program began in 2016. About 99 percent of all participants have graduated; 95 percent have remained employed.

The current graduating class consists of 27 Newark residents who have been chronically unemployed and now have the skills to reenter the workforce, RWJBarnabas Health stated.

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