GWWDC's career pathways investments help low-income individuals launch careers in industries that provide entry-level employment opportunities, have a strong demand for workers, and provide opportunities for ongoing career and wage advancement.
From January 2009 - April 2010, the collaborative's career pathways investments:
- Provided skills training, education, literacy, and/or supportive services for more than 450 individuals
- Provided training in construction or healthcare skills to nearly 200 workers
- Helped 138 workers to secure employments
- Helped grantees to leverage more than $1.5 million in additional support for industry-specific skills training
By May 2010, the collaborative had awarded more than $500,000 to training partnerships focused on the construction and healthcare industries:
- The Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington AFL-CIO worked with Associated General Contractors and other partners to provide a pre-apprenticeship program for DC adults interested in construction careers.
- Covenant House Washington and the Washington Development Industry Council received support from the collaborative to help younger adults (18-24) prepare for and launch careers in construction.
- Northern Virginia Family Service is expanding their Training Futures program to include a new clinical pathway that allows participants to become certified phlebotomist through training at Northern Virginia Community College.
- The DC Primary Care Association and its members are partnering with the recently-launched Community College of the District of Columbia to establish a new Community Health Worker training program.
- A partnership between Boat People SOS of Maryland and Montgomery College will help immigrants and other individuals with limited English literacy acquire healthcare job skills while, at the same time, improving their English.
- Adventist Hospital Foundation received support to help entry-level workers improve their skills so they can advance their wages and careers.
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