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NIHNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

Environmental Career Worker Training Program

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Institution
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CA
Principal investigator
Kevin William Riley
Funding
$458K
Duration
1992–2030
Open portfolio

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Abstract

ECWT Program Summary/Abstract The overall goal of WRUC’s Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP) is to train individuals for jobs in the construction, environmental remediation, energy efficiency, and hazardous waste fields with a focus on recruiting from historically disadvantaged communities disproportionately affected by environmental exposures. WRUC accomplishes this goal through comprehensive training and wrap-around services that reinforce worker health and safety and job readiness to support both environmental and economic sustainability. In the next five years, WRUC plans to recruit and train 135 participants per year from disadvantaged communities in the cities of Los Angeles and Portland, and in remote tribal villages in Alaska. Our consortium provides support to trainees through a program of consistent mentoring, from initial recruitment to job placement and retention. WRUC has strategic partnerships in each location to sustain our program’s ability to conduct outreach and recruitment, training, job placement, and tracking activities. The program capitalizes on changing labor market demands and on green job career pipelines in each target location.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCESU45Special Emphasis Panel[ZES1 LWJ-S (WT)]locationdisadvantagedenvironmentalworkerdisadvantaged communitiesvillagesplacementjob

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