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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
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Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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SESSION DESCRIPTION
Green
Jobs
The green industry is a $40 billion market and
increasing quickly. In many sectors of the green industry, including
tree care, there is a job for every trained worker available. Some
communities have caught on and are offering adult workforce training to
expose high school graduates and at-risk young adults to these career
opportunities. Particularly, the partnership between urban youth and
trees diversifies the green industry's work force and makes green areas
more accessible to urban communities.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* How the programs got started and what
partnerships are key.
* What's in it for employers and what is their commitment.
* What career paths are included and excluded.
* How to encourage peer leadership.
* How to expand a successful program.
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GROWING FUTURES FOR ADULTS
Pam
Helfer, Field Director, Trees Forever (Marion, IA)
Growing Futures is an active, hands-on
educational program that provides many opportunities for participants
to develop skills in leadership and cooperation. Each week the young
women and men in the program have the opportunity to explore a new
natural resource or environmental career field and grow as individuals
through related service projects.
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GREEN CAREERS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Renee Toll-Dubois, Executive
Director, Eagle Eye Institute (Boston, MA)
Eagle Eye Institute's Green Industry Career
Pathway is a transformational program for YouthBuild students that
bridges interested participants to careers in arboriculture and the
green industry. The program opens the eyes of urban youth to green
careers by involving them in hands-on, interactive programs to raise
awareness, build knowledge, and develop marketable skills.
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