[ACT] ACT Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

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	March 20, 2008	 	
		
  	

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ABOUT US
  	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 450,000 volunteers.	

ABOUT WEBCASTS
The 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.

NATIONAL SPONSOR



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ADULT WORKFORCE TRAINING
March 20, 2008
1:00- 2:00pm EST

  	
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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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REGISTER FOR THE WEBCAST:

http://actrees.org/site/stories/adult_workforce_training.php


  	
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urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of  
the cited publication to:
Alliance for Community Trees • 4603 Calvert Road • College Park, MD  
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Copyright (c) 2008 Alliance for Community Trees

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