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Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, Racine, Wi
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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 (OSRU),
Center for Program Analysis (CPA), Innovation, Partnerships,
and Communication Office (IPCO), Office of Wastewater
Management (OWM), Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention (OCSPP), the Office of Emergency Management
(OEM), and the Urban Waters Program. 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 residents from solid
and hazardous waste-impacted communities, including
low-income and minority, unemployed, and underemployed
individuals. To date, EPA has funded 256 job training grants
totaling over $54 million through the former Brownfields Job
Training program and Environmental Workforce Development
and Job Training program. As of April 2015, more than 13,800
individuals have completed training, and of those, more than
10,000 have obtained employment in the environmental field,
with an average starting hourly wage of $14.18. This equates to
a cumulative placement rate of approximately 72% since the
program was created in 1998.
Job Training Grant
$192,300.00
EPA has selected the Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps for an
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training grant. The
Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps plans to train 80 students
and place at least 64 graduates in environmental jobs. The training
program includes 480 hours of instruction in 40-hour HAZWOPER,
beginning wastewater operator, certified renovator, asbestos abatement,
confined space entry, integrated pest management, blood-borne
pathogens/emergency response, National Incident Management System
training, solid waste management/debris collection and recycling, and a
number of other advanced and awareness-level courses. Participants who
complete the core training will earn 11 state or federal certifications. Hie
Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps is targeting underemployed
and unemployed residents of the City of Racine, including ex-offenders
and veterans. Key partners include the City of Racine, Racine Vocational
Ministry, the Racine Health Department, Gateway Technical College, the
Racine County Economic Development Corporation, Racine County
Workforce Development Center, and several environmental and
community-based organizations.
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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-4747
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region5brownfields/)
Grant Recipient: Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, WI
(262)880-4811
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.
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