PATHWAYS
What do you get when you create a robust regional partnership among stakeholders from multiple levels of education and workforce, economic, and community development groups?
Pathways!
The Pathways Project for Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties is a $2.1 Million dollar American Recovery & Reinvestment Act grant that will:
- Improve the skills of our region’s construction trades workforce
- Create jobs and economic opportunities for our workers, businesses, and communities
- Create safe, efficient and affordable housing for our neighbors
Pathways is delivering energy efficient construction skills training to under- or un-employed workers who are, in turn, building replacement homes for residents of Penobscot and Piscataquis counties currently living in dangerous, sub-standard mobile homes.
Implementing the Pathways partnership within a high poverty area in north-central rural Maine is an efficient use of community resources both to create the sustainable construction workforce that will be needed to meet Maine’s energy efficiency goals and to reduce unemployment.
Attention Pathways Project Alumni:
If you're looking for work or just want to stay involved with the program, join our Job Club!
Learn more here or contact Kitty Barbee at kbarbee@emdc.org for details.
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LOCAL BUSINESS SUPPORTS PATHWAYS PROJECT
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- Replacing dangerous and sub-standard mobile homes which are essentially impossible to retro-fit or weatherize
- Gaining skills the construction industry will need in order to meet the demand for weatherization and retrofit work in the coming decades
Pathways participants will also move Maine closer to realizing the goal of weatherizing all 477,000 single family homes in Maine over the next 20 years by:
Maine's weatherization goals are projected to create 1500 jobs directly each year. Pathways can help its participants be ready to take on those new jobs, complementing and strengthening the existing labor force.