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Environmental Technician Career Worker Training Program

The Environmental Career Worker Training Program focuses on delivering comprehensive training to increase the number of disadvantaged and underrepresented minority workers in areas such as environmental remediation/restoration, construction, hazardous materials/waste handling and emergency response. 

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Basic Skills

The Basic Skills instruction provides trainees with the personal and interpersonal skills required to deal with the challenges of everyday life and to obtain and sustain employment. The ECWTP six-week basic skills training utilize a work-based learning curriculum. Classes include study skills, mathematics, an introduction to hazardous materials, computer basics, life skills, job readiness, and physical fitness. There is also a counseling component that provides students with problem intervention and assistance, in addition to information on a wide range of social services to aid them in achieving their educational and vocational goals.

 

Technical Training

Technical training can include the following components as required by the granting agency:

40 hour—Construction       

40-hour—Weatherization

16-hour—Lead Abatement       

32-hour—Asbestos Abatement

40-hour—Hazardous Waste Worker

30-hour—OSHA Construction

 

*  Participants are fully certified in each technical segment completed satisfactorily and are provided OSHA workplace cards. The staff provides placement and career development assistance and continues to track the performance of both recent and past graduates.

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