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P.U.S.H. Buffalo is being awarded $200,000 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) to help job training and workforce development in communities impacted by environmental neglect.
The workforce training and development would revolve around the cleaning up of brownfield sites. E.P.A. Acting Regional Director Walter Mugdan said the end goal is to create sustainable jobs for unemployed and underemployed people, in the environmental preservation sector.
“These jobs reduce contamination and build more sustainable futures for their communities,” he said. “The individuals completing a job training program funded by the E.P.A. typically graduate with a variety of certifications that improve their marketability and help ensure that employment opportunities are not just temporary contractual work, but long-term careers.”
Wells-Clyburn says her organization is planning on building a 3,000 square foot sustainability workforce training center, which will house all of the training programs they currently run.
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