Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name YouthBuild Boston (YBB) will prepare disconnected young adults YouthBuild Boston, Inc. Proposed # Unemployed Community Base Organization La Alianza Hispana for jobs in the building trades. YouthBuild Boston has more than Served: 45 Employer Partner Shawmut Design & Construction twenty years of experience training inner-city young adults for jobs Cities: Boston New England Regional Council of in the building trades and is recognized as a Pre-Apprentice Labor Partner Proposed # of Job Carpenters Program by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Amount: $200,000 Placements: 27 Roxbury YouthWorks Development. Although YBB has existing agreements with the Boston Higher Education Resource collaborating organizations this project serves as the catalyst to Other Partners Sector: Construction Proposed # of Incumbent Center formalize these relationships with a goal to bridge the gap between Workers Served: NA job seekers and employers seeking reliable and skilled entry level Children’s Services of Roxbury Average Hourly Wage at workers. Public Education Partner Roxbury Community College Placement: $16.75 Proposed # of Incumbent Vocational Technical High School Madison Park Technical Vocational Wage Increases: NA Partner High School Workforce Investment Board Boston Private Industry Council Office of Jobs and Community WIA Fiscal Agent Services Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name Berkshire County Proposed # Unemployed Healthcare PACE is designed to attract, retain and promote quality Adult Basic Education Partner Adult Learning Center Regional Employment Served: 87 healthcare workers in Berkshire County through seamless Board pathways and stackable certificates. PACE will focus on Career Center Partner Proposed # of Job readiness, simulation experience, work-based learning, and BerkshireWorks Career Center Cities: Pittsfield Placements: 66 enhancing healthcare training opportunities for pathways in a nursing career. Community Based Amount: $350,000 Proposed # of Incumbent Berkshire Community Action Council, Workers Served: 53 The project will also focus on accelerating the progress of students Inc. Sector: Health Care working toward healthcare credentials. Program services and Proposed # of Incumbent supports will help participants improve their basic skills, academic Average Hourly Wage at Wage Increases: 39 Berkshire Health Systems standing, clinical competence, personal confidence, employment Placement: $12.12 status and progress toward a college degree. The grant will support development and/or implementation of: Employer Partners Berkshire Healthcare Career exploration and a simulation pre-requisite for those Northern Berkshire Healthcare exploring CNA training;
Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name YouthBuild Boston, Inc. Cities: Boston Amount: $200,000 Sector: Construction Average Hourly Wage at Placement: $16.75 Proposed # Unemployed Served: 45 Proposed # of Job Placements: 27 Proposed # of Incumbent Workers Served: NA Proposed # of Incumbent Wage Increases: NA YouthBuild Boston (YBB) will prepare disconnected young adults for jobs in the building trades. YouthBuild Boston has more than twenty years of experience training inner-city young adults for jobs in the building trades and is recognized as a Pre-Apprentice Program by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Although YBB has existing agreements with the collaborating organizations this project serves as the catalyst to formalize these relationships with a goal to bridge the gap between job seekers and employers seeking reliable and skilled entry level workers. Community Base Organization La Alianza Hispana Employer Partner Shawmut Design & Construction Labor Partner New England Regional Council of Carpenters Other Partners Roxbury YouthWorks Boston Higher Education Resource Center Children’s Services of Roxbury Public Education Partner Roxbury Community College Vocational Technical High School Partner Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Workforce Investment Board Boston Private Industry Council WIA Fiscal Agent Office of Jobs and Community Services Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name Berkshire County Regional Employment Board Cities: Pittsfield Amount: $350,000 Sector: Health Care Average Hourly Wage at Placement: $12.12 Proposed # Unemployed Served: 87 Proposed # of Job Placements: 66 Proposed # of Incumbent Workers Served: 53 Proposed # of Incumbent Wage Increases: 39 Healthcare PACE is designed to attract, retain and promote quality healthcare workers in Berkshire County through seamless pathways and stackable certificates. PACE will focus on simulation experience, work-based learning, and enhancing healthcare training opportunities for pathways in a nursing career. The project will also focus on accelerating the progress of students working toward healthcare credentials. Program services and supports will help participants improve their basic skills, academic standing, clinical competence, personal confidence, employment status and progress toward a college degree. The grant will support development and/or implementation of: Career exploration and a simulation pre-requisite for those exploring CNA training; Adult Basic Education Partner Adult Learning Center Career Center Partner BerkshireWorks Career Center Community Based Berkshire Community Action Council, Inc. Employer Partners Berkshire Health Systems Berkshire Healthcare Northern Berkshire Healthcare readiness,
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