About Us

Who We Are

The Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc. (PIC), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, that operates employment, education, and training programs in southwestern Pennsylvania, with a particular emphasis in Westmoreland and Fayette counties. PIC has strategically located offices throughout Beaver, Fayette and Westmoreland counties to assist youth, adults, dislocated workers, and the economically disadvantaged in attaining educational achievement, supporting their family growth, and obtaining and retaining employment.

The organization works every day to educate, encourage, and empower family and individual development and to create career enhancement opportunities through training and workforce development, which will perpetuate and improve the quality of life in southwestern Pennsylvania.

PIC operates over two dozen programs through an organizational structure of three divisions: Early Childhood Development, Education, and Workforce Development. PIC is governed by a fifteen-member Board of Directors and employs over 300 full-time and part-time professionals to provide services and reach the goals and objectives set forth in each of its employment, educational, and training programs. PIC’s services include programs in the areas represented by its three divisions. Presently, PIC:

Both Westmoreland and Fayette counties strongly rely on PIC’s adult literacy program. The Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board has identified PIC as the Title 1 provider of services. PIC is the premier provider of job placement and workforce development in Westmoreland County. PIC is also the primary provider of the welfare-to-work programs and case management services in both counties. Additionally, PIC is the operator of the Westmoreland, Alle-Kiski, and Fayette Pennsylvania CareerLink® centers. These are important and unique roles that PIC plays to provide much needed services to the people in Westmoreland and Fayette counties.

History

The Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc. (PIC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As a community-based organization, PIC empowers individuals and families to reach greater levels of self-sufficiency by reducing barriers to employment from cradle to career. By offering preschool services, academic support, specialized training, skills assessment, job search assistance, and support of businesses’ needs, PIC helps to create a vibrant workforce and strengthen the local economy.

Over the past four decades, PIC has served over 300,000 individuals of all ages and currently operates over two dozen programs in three divisions: Early Childhood Development, Education, and Workforce Development. Our programs are recognized leaders in all three divisions. A team of over 300 employees helps to deliver job search assistance, adult education, workforce training, early childhood education, after-school programs for youth, and much more. Our Workforce Development Division is responsible for providing job search assistance, on-the-job training, aptitude assessments, and direct placement of those enrolled in our workforce development programs and through our one-stop career centers. Our Early Childhood Development Division has served the families of the local area through school readiness, family engagement and other services provided through Head Start, Early Head Start, PA Pre-K Counts programs and PIC Kidz Zone. Lastly, our Education division provides before-and-afterschool programs for in-school youth, GED and remediation classes and plethora of professional development trainings to help local workforce needs.