Brownfields

新泽西州纽瓦克和纽约州格伦科夫棕地少数民族工人培训计划的目标 (BMWT计划)是为有色人种准备和安置在不断扩大的就业领域 与评估、回收、补救和建设环境相关 受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实施，该联盟结合了技术、外展、教育和社区倡导技能，并将少数族裔领导的环境和社区组织与工会和学术培训计划联系起来。五年来，该项目已成功招生132人，毕业109人，就业87人，占80%。这个数字只包括那些被安排在项目完成(5月)和资助周期结束之间的学生，也就是8月31日；一些学生被安排在资助周期结束之后。在过去的九年里，这个项目的表现一直在稳步增长，越来越多的毕业生被安排在高薪的工会职位上。在2003-2004方案年度结束时，81%的就业安置在工资较高的工会职位上， 以及全面的医疗福利、假期和退休计划--换句话说，正是让一个人从贫困进入中产阶级终身保障的一揽子计划。例如，那些去年进入纽约市木匠队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。这项提案要求为实施为期19周的学徒前培训方案提供资金，培训对象为18岁及以上有色人种的个人，这些人来自经济困难社区的贫困家庭。目标社区包括新泽西州的纽瓦克和纽约州的格伦科夫，以及新泽西州的埃塞克斯、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，并建议对计划进行一些增强。在为期19周的课程中，BMWT项目将提供环境修复和工人健康与安全方面的课程，这些课程将导致认证和/或执照，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，而且为学生在“工作世界”中成功竞争做好准备。BMWT计划将与以社区为基础的组织合作，这些组织提供外展和招聘、计划推广、持续支持服务和帮助就业安置，特别是与当地经济发展相关的工作。该计划还将继续与区木匠委员会的学徒计划以及其他有利可图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棕地物业和其他受污染土地或建筑的环境修复的公司建立关系。 BMWT项目将在UMDNJ-公共卫生学院的总合同下运作，并将由纽约市地区委员会木匠劳动技术学院(LTC)管理。LTC提议继续与社区组织、纽约长岛的Glen Cove青年委员会和新泽西州纽瓦克的圣詹姆斯AME教堂/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.