^ Brownfields 2014 Job Training Grant Fact Sheet
Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc., Oakland, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
In 2010, the EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization (OBLR) led an effort to more closely
collaborate with other programs within the Agency on
workforce development and job training. Program offices
now participating in the expanded initiative include the
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR).
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology
Innovation (OSRTI), Center for Program Analysis (CPA).
Innovation, Partnerships, and Communication Office
(IPCO), Office of Wastewater Management (OWM),
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
(OCSPP), and the Office of Emergency Management
(OEM). This initiative was created to develop a job
training cooperative agreement opportunity that includes
expanded training in other environmental media outside
the traditional scope of brownfields hazardous waste
assessment and cleanup. As a result of this effort, the
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
program now allows applicants to deliver a broader array
of training in the environmental field, in addition to the
traditional brownfields hazardous waste and petroleum
training historically provided. Through the expanded
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
program, graduates develop wider skill sets that improve
their ability to secure full-time, sustainable employment
in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste
management and within the larger environmental field,
including water quality improvement and chemical safety.
This effort also gives communities more flexibility to
provide different types of environmental training based on
local employers' hiring needs.
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
grant funds are provided to nonprofit organizations and
other eligible entities to recruit, train, and place
predominantly low-income and minority, unemployed and
underemployed residents from solid and hazardous
waste-impacted communities. To date, EPA has funded
237 job training grants totaling over $48 million through
the former Brownfields Job Training program and
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
program. As of April 2014, approximately 12,800
individuals have completed training, and of those,
approximately 9,100 have obtained employment in the
environmental field, with an average starting hourly wage
Job Training Grant
$200,000.00
EPA has selected the Cypress Mandela Training
Center, Inc., for an Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training grant. The Cypress
Mandela Training Center, Inc., plans to train 65
students, place 45 graduates in environmental
jobs, and track graduates for one year. The core
training includes 77 hours of instruction in
40-hour HAZWOPER, waste site worker health
and safety, confined space entry, ergonomic
hazards, hazardous material training, introduction
to EPA and OSHA, asbestos abatement, hazard
communication, and injury and illness prevention.
Cypress Mandela and its partners will leverage an
additional 80 hours of life skills training and 40
hours of job readiness training. Participants who
complete the core training will receive six state or
federal certifications. Cypress Mandela is targeting
unemployed and underemployed, economically
disadvantaged residents of Oakland and
surrounding East Bay communities, with a focus
on veterans, ex-offenders, minorities, and at-risk
youth. Key partners include the City of Oakland,
Oakland Workforce Investment Board, UC
Berkeley, Tri-City Economic Development
Corporation, Laney College, Alameda County
Social Services Agency, Oakland Housing
Authority, and a number of community-based
organizations and environmental employers.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit
the EPA Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
(213)244-1821
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region9/bro wnfields)
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-14-023
May 2014
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of $14.00. This equates to a cumulative placement rate of
approximately 71% since the program was created in 1998.
Grant Recipient: Cypress Mandela Training
Center, Inc.,CA
510-208-7350
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
agreement for the grant has not yet been
negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-14-023
May 2014
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