CSA's Building Futures Program Wins MD Grant
Friday, June 6, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The Community
Services Agency’s Building Futures program has won an Implementation Grant
from
the Maryland EARN Program. EARN (Employment Advancement Right Now) is a new
state job training program. The Implementation Grant follows the Planning Grant
the Building Futures program won previously (CSA Wins Two Grants for 2014, 1/3/2014).
“We are the PG/Charles County construction partnership, with the Painters and
Carpenters as the main union partners, to provide craft-specific
pre-apprenticeship training and training in the finishing trades to boost
unionized companies’ competitiveness and to increase earnings potential for
workers,” says CSA Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy. The grant will also
enable BF to provide social services and mentorship support to help apprentices
complete their apprenticeships, McKirchy added. “Huge thanks are due to The
Finishing Trades Institute at Painters District 51 for their willingness to
lead our labor-management partnership and commit to helping low-income
residents obtain training and enter the careers in the trades.” The grants
will
“help more Marylanders get the skills they need to qualify for Maryland’s
most
in-demand jobs,” said Governor Martin O’Malley. “There is no progress
without a
job.”