Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP)

影响 新泽西州/纽约危险材料工人培训中心(新泽西州/纽约中心)在过去14年里通过MWT和BMWT计划对II区社区的可持续性产生了巨大影响。到目前为止，新泽西州/纽约中心已经为775名社区居民提供了培训，并成功地让601名项目参与者毕业。随着这一计划的成熟，其业绩稳步提高，今天实现了出色的培训完成、就业安置和毕业生保住工作。 此外，与雇主和政策制定者进行持续对话，以增强和扩展课程，以满足他们和毕业生的需求，使该计划保持竞争力。例如，在最近完成的2008计划年度，92%的毕业生成功就业；86%的毕业生在加入工会的职位上，平均工资为16.26美元，享受全额福利。MWT和BMWT项目一直为80%的项目毕业生提供了就业机会。提供的培训还使他们能够获得关键证书，并在环境行业找到工作。 MWT计划支持将职业培训、支持服务、社区参与、环境意识和劳动力发展与再发展战略相结合的综合方法，以增强长期被视为处于风险之中的个人和社区的能力。纽瓦克以前的BMWT项目的记录表明，专门针对受经济放弃和环境忽视影响最严重的个人的职业培训可能是有效的。将重建与社区赋权捆绑在一起是对零和游戏的一种补救，这种游戏往往是“城市重建”中固有的。也就是说，如果发展不能处理那些受衰退影响最大的人，那么他们的问题--归根结底是每个人的问题--只会从一个地方转移到另一个地方。最终，没有人受益。环境正义加上对棕地开垦的自下而上的干预，能够而且正在努力提高社区的可持续性。

Impact New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center (NJ/NY Center) has had a tremendous impact on the sustainability of communities in Region II over the past fourteen years through the MWT and BMWT Programs. The NJ/NY Center has provided training to 775 community residents to date and has successfully graduated 601 program participants. As this initiative has matured, its performance has steadily improved and today achieves excellent training completion, job placement, and job retention of its graduates. In addition, engaging in continuous dialog with employers and policymakers to enhance and expand the curriculum to meet their needs as well as the graduates has kept the Program competitive. For example, for the last completed 2008 Program year, 92 percent of the graduates have been successfully placed in employment; 86 percent of the placements were in unionized positions with an average wage of $16.26 with full benefits. Both the MWT and BMWT Programs have consistently secured jobs for 80% of the Program graduates. The training provided also enabled them to receive critical certifications and find jobs in the environmental industry. The MWT Program supports a comprehensive approach that blends job training, support services, community involvement, environmental awareness, and workforce development with redevelopment strategies to empower individuals and communities long characterized as at-risk. The record of the previous BMWT Program in Newark demonstrated that job training targeted specifically to individuals hardest hit by the legacy of economic abandonment and environmental neglect can be effective. Tying redevelopment to community empowerment is a remedy to the zero-sum game that is too often inherent in "urban renewal." That is, if development fails to deal with those most impacted by decline, then their issues - which ultimately are everyone's issues - are only moved from one place to another. In the end, nobody benefits. Environmental justice coupled with bottom-up interventions in brownfields reclamation can and are working to improve the sustainability of communities.