Brownfields

新泽西州纽瓦克和纽约州格伦科夫的布朗菲尔德少数民族工人培训计划的目标是 (BMWT计划）是准备和安置在不断扩大的就业领域的有色人种 与环境评估、复垦、补救和建设相关的 被污染的土地和建筑物。该计划将由一个独特的组织联盟合作进行，该联盟将技术，推广，教育和社区宣传技能相结合，并将少数民族领导的环境和社区组织与工会和学术培训计划联系起来。在过去的五年里，该方案已成功招收了132名学生，毕业109人，并安排了87人就业，占80%。这一数字仅包括在项目完成（5月）和资助周期结束（8月31日）之间的学生;一些学生在资助周期结束后被安置。在过去的九年中，该计划的表现稳步增长，越来越多的毕业生进入高薪工会职位。在2003-2004方案年度结束时，81%的工作安置在工会组织的职位上，这些职位提供更高的工资， 以及全面的医疗福利、假期和退休计划--换句话说，正是这些一揽子计划让一个人从贫困走向中产阶级的生活保障。例如，那些去年进入纽约市木匠的人，一开始是第一年的学徒，每小时挣15.71美元，享受上述所有福利。该提案要求提供资金，用于为18岁及以上的有色人种以及来自经济困难社区的弱势家庭的个人提供为期19周的学徒前培训计划。目标社区包括新泽西州的纽瓦克市和纽约州的格伦科夫市以及新泽西的埃塞克斯、哈德逊和卑尔根县。BMWT计划建议管理一个与过去两个资助周期提供的课程非常相似的课程，并提出了一些计划改进。在为期19周的课程中，BMWT计划将提供环境修复和工人健康与安全课程，这些课程将导致认证和/或许可证，建筑行业的入门技能，以及与行业相关的数学，写作和生活技能/职业指导，这些课程不仅为学生工作做好准备，而且还能在“工作世界”中成功竞争。“BMWT计划将与社区组织合作，提供外展和招聘、计划推广、持续的支持服务以及就业安置援助，特别是与当地经济发展有关的工作。该计划还将继续与木匠区理事会的学徒计划以及其他利润丰厚的有组织的建筑行业密切合作。最后，该计划将继续与主要从事布朗菲尔德财产和其他受污染的土地或建筑物的环境修复的公司的关系。 BMWT计划将根据UMDNJ公共卫生学院的总合同运作，并将由木匠劳动技术学院（LTC）的纽约市区理事会管理。长期培训中心提议继续与社区组织、纽约长岛格伦科夫青年委员会和新泽西纽瓦克圣詹姆斯AME教会/圣詹姆斯社会服务公司建立伙伴关系。

The goal of the Brownfields Minority Worker Training Program of Newark, NJ and Glen Cove, NY (BMWT program) is to prepare and place people of color in the expanding areas of employment associated with the assessment, reclamation, remediation, and construction of environmentally contaminated lands and buildings. This program will be cooperatively conducted by a unique consortium of organizations that combines technical, outreach, educational, and community advocacy skills and links minority-led environmental and community-based organizations with union and academic training programs. Over the past five years, the program has successfully enrolled 132 students, graduated 109 and has made 87 job placements, or 80%. This figure includes only those placed between program completion (May) and the end of the grant cycle, which is August 31; some students are placed after the end of the funding cycle. Over the past nine years, the performance in this program has steadily grown, placing increasingly more graduates in well-paying unionized positions. At the conclusion of the 2003-2004 program year, 81 % of the job placements were in unionized positions, which provide higher wages, as well as full medical benefits, vacations, and retirement plans - in other words, precisely the package that allows an individual to move from poverty into a lifetime of middle class security. For example, those that entered the New York City Carpenters last year began as first year apprentices earning $15.71/hour, with all the benefits above. This proposal requests funding for the delivery of a 19-week pre-apprenticeship training program targeted for individuals of color age 18 and above and who come from disadvantaged households in communities characterized as economically in distress. The targeted communities include the cities of Newark, NJ and Glen Cove, NY as well as Essex, Hudson, and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. BMWT program proposes to administer a curriculum very similar to that which has been offered over the past two funding cycles, with some proposed program enhancements. Over the course of the 19 weeks, BMWT program will offer courses in environmental remediation and worker health and safety that lead to certifications and/or licenses, introductory skills in the building trades, as well as industry-related mathematics, writing, and life skills/career guidance, which prepares students not just to work, but to successfully compete in the "world of work." BMWT program will work with community-based organizations that provide outreach and recruitment, program promotion, ongoing support services, and assistance with job placement, particularly jobs linked with local economic development. The program will also continue its close collaboration with the apprenticeship program of the District Council of Carpenters as well as other lucrative organized building trades. Finally, the program will continue its relationships with firms primarily engaged in environmental remediation of brownfield properties and other contaminated lands or buildings. BMWT program will operate under general contract of the UMDNJ-School of Public Health and will be administered by the New York City District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College (LTC). The LTC proposes to continue its partnerships with community-based organizations, Glen Cove Youth Board on Long Island, New York and St. James AME Church/St. James Social Services Corporation of Newark, New Jersey.