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Transforming Lives and Advancing Economic Opportunity: EPA's TRANSFORMING LIVES and ADVANCING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: EPA’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Program Preparing Unemployed and Underemployed Residents of Waste- Impacted Communities for Full-time Environmental Careers United States Environmental Protection Agency This page is intentionally left blank. B TRANSFORMING LIVES AND ADVANCING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Contents Introduction ..................................................................................1 Superfund Site Cleanup ...............................................................5 • St. Louis Community College, Missouri ...........................................5 • Cypress Mandela Training Center, California ................................8 Solid Waste Management .........................................................13 • Zender Environmental Health and Research Group, Alaska ........13 • Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board, Connecticut ...16 Wastewater Management ...........................................................20 • Rose State College, Oklahoma .....................................................20 • OAI, Inc. — Greencorps Chicago, Illinois .....................................22 Emergency Planning and Response ..........................................27 • Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida ..............................27 • The Fortune Society, New York ....................................................30 Renewable Energy Installation ...................................................34 • City of Richmond, California ..........................................................34 • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey ..........................................36 Enhanced Environmental Health and Chemical Safety ..............39 • Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico ..................................39 • Northern Arizona University’s Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, Arizona .................................43 Brownfields Remediation ............................................................48 • Civic Works Baltimore Center for Green Careers, Maryland ........48 • City of Tacoma, Washington .........................................................50 Acknowledgments .....................................................................54 INTRODUCTION Having a job means more than just generating income needed to secure cleanup work in their communities. to pay bills and put food on the table. It is a means The program was also developed as a result of of establishing self-identity, self-worth and a sense of recommendations raised by local residents and personal accomplishment. A career provides a sense environmental justice activists to support workforce of belonging—of being a contributor and a valued development as part of the EPA’s Brownfields member of society. Redevelopment Initiative, and as referenced in the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council report, “Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization and Brownfields: The Search for Authentic Signs of “EPA’s job training program advances Hope.” Coordinating brownfields revitalization with economic development by training broader strategies of job creation, training and career people to take advantage of job development produces demonstrable benefits for opportunities in their own communities. communities facing environmental justice issues. Many graduates—including formerly EPA funded its first round of Brownfields Job Training incarcerated individuals and veterans— Pilots in 1998. These initial pilots were a success: secure meaningful employment that The first program graduates quickly found jobs, and protects the environment and promotes individual stories of lives being transformed through economic development in some of our environmental job training emerged. As a result, neediest communities.” 25 additional Brownfields Job Training Pilots were awarded in 2000. Through 2010, EPA awarded nearly — Mathy Stanislaus 146 Brownfields Job Training grants to environmentally Assistant Administrator impacted communities across the country. EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management Broadening Training and Expanding Opportunities Over nearly two decades, the U.S. Environmental In 2010, EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Workforce Revitalization led an effort to more closely collaborate Development and Job Training program (hereafter with other programs within the Agency on workforce referred to as EPA’s environmental job training development and job training by broadening the program) has helped put people to work by building Brownfields Job Training program to include other EPA a skilled environmental workforce across the country. program areas. Program offices participating in the The program awards competitive grants to nonprofit workforce development and job training have included: organizations and other eligible entities to recruit, train and place unemployed and underemployed • Office of Superfund Remediation individuals, including low-income and minority and Technology Innovation residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted • Office of Emergency Management communities, in a wide range of environmental careers. By doing so, EPA is helping unemployed • Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery individuals develop skills they can use to find • Office of Underground Storage Tanks sustainable careers that advance social, economic Office of Wastewater Management and environmental betterment and make a living wage. • Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics EPA’s environmental job training program was created • to help build a skilled workforce in communities where • Office of Environmental Justice EPA brownfields assessment and cleanup activities • Center for Program Analysis were taking place. Rather than seeing local jobs filled by EPA Pesticide Program contractors from distant cities, EPA’s environmental job • training program was designed to offer the opportunity • EPA Urban Waters Program for unemployed residents historically affected by • EPA Lead Program environmental pollution, economic disinvestment and brownfields to gain the skills and certifications • Innovation, Partnerships and Communication Office 1 TRANSFORMING LIVES AND ADVANCING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Through the broader program, participants receive EPA is investing in America’s future by advancing comprehensive, multifaceted, and cross-disciplinary economic opportunities, strengthening communities training in a variety of environmental media. Program and helping a diverse array of formerly unemployed graduates develop a wider skill set that improves their individuals to thrive and succeed. ability to secure full-time, sustainable employment What follows are just a few of the many examples of in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste successful EPA environmental job training programs management and within the larger environmental nationwide. Insights from grantees, graduates and field, including water quality improvement, chemical the employers who hired them reveal the true benefits safety, renewable energy and disaster response. of these programs: cleaner communities, a healthier This program also gives communities more flexibility environment and a locally trained and green workforce to provide different types of environmental training made up of individuals whose lives have transformed based on local labor market assessments and for the better through sustained careers with livable employers’ hiring needs. wages and opportunities for upward advancement. In addition, program participants build skills to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life, including effective communication and decision-making, interpersonal relationships, stress management, sexual harassment awareness, proper dress, personal financial management and other life skills training leveraged through non-EPA funding sources. Measuring Success: 10,000+ Environmental Jobs and Counting Since the program’s inception in 1998, and as of December 2015, EPA has funded 256 job training grants exceeding $54 million; more than 14,100 individuals have completed training; and of those, more than 10,200 have secured employment in the environmental field, with an average starting hourly wage of $14.29. This equates to a cumulative job St. Nicks job training graduates supporting first responders at Ground placement rate of 72 percent. Zero after the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City. Whether cleaning up contaminated properties in their own neighborhoods, working at wastewater treatment facilities, installing renewable energy infrastructure or responding to oil spills, graduates “A key aspect of the success of the of EPA’s environmental job training programs program is the partnership between are gaining the know-how to solve today’s most grantees and the private sector to challenging environmental problems. They have design curricula based on local also secured employment in response and cleanup markets with an eye toward hiring at events of national significance. Graduates of graduates, which is why there is a EPA’s environmental job training were among the 72 percent job placement rate.” first responders on the scene after the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City and helped with — Gina McCarthy the cleanup effort. They also responded to multiple U.S. EPA Administrator anthrax threats in the city. 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