Pleasant Ridge community<\/a> \u2014 will connect people to career coaching, job placement support, workforce programs, and other services, officials said. The center will be staffed and run by Goodwill in a space leased from the Housing Authority.<\/p>\n ![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760470940_761_\"\/)
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The McKees Rocks Opportunity Center at Pleasant Ridge.<\/p>\n
Before helping to cut a ceremonial ribbon, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato said investing in people helps provide opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aHere in McKees Rocks, this opportunity will mean everything for people who are ready to take that next step, whether it’s enrolling in a job training program, connecting with an employer, earning a certification, or simply having the access to resources to make themselves better and to be able to invest back in their community and their family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
McKees Rocks native and former Detroit Lions wide receiver Dontez Ford was also at Tuesday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
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Officials cut the ribbon to celebrate the grand opening of the opportunity center.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aMcKees Rocks made me the man I’m proud to be today. And I always said that this place taught me that when you have the ability to help someone, you just do it,\u201d said Ford, who now works for a medical device manufacturer.<\/p>\n
The new center is part of an increased emphasis for the housing authority on job training and self-sufficiency, in addition to affordable housing, said Richard Stephenson, the housing authority\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t be more excited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aiming to assist residents in McKees Rocks and Stowe Township with job training and employment opportunities, residents and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115374230606982728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}