billstrickland.jpgCleveland’s NewBridge is based on the Manchester Bidwell Corp. in Pittsburgh, a successful organization for at-risk teens and adults in need of job training, started by President and CEO Bill Strickland pictured here.

On Euclid Avenue near a Subway sandwich shop, a program born in Pittsburgh is quietly trying to boost high school graduation rates and help jobless Clevelanders become medical technicians.

Although the NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology is still too new to

Article source: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/06/a_boost_for_teens_jobless_adul.html