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Four New England organizations will receive a total of nearly $3 million to run weatherization training centers, according to a funding announcement Friday by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The funding, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will provide job training to local workers in energy efficiency retrofitting and weatherization services.
Descriptions of the projects are as follows, as provided by the DOE:
The Workplace Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., $442,951
Connecticut’s $563,000 cost-shared project will establish a training system that will help entry-level weatherization installer workers to increase their skills, acquire additional credentials and move up the career ladder to more advanced positions with higher pay. The project will follow a program outline that includes start-up, outreach and recruitment, training, placement and retention phases.
South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Framingham, $705,225
The goal of the more than $1 million cost-shared project in Framingham is to create a permanent weatherization training center that trains installers, crew chiefs and contractors. The training program will consist of classroom, laboratory and on-the-job-training coupled with personalized services that will include job placement support. Since the council is an anti-poverty agency, this project will focus on recruiting unemployed, underemployed and under-skilled applicants who will register with the agency’s day-labor program. Twenty weatherization contractors will also agree to hire trainees.
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, $964,215
Dartmouth’s $1.2 million cost-shared project aims to fill gaps in current and planned weatherization training and help ensure that workforce training is spread equally throughout the state. The university plans to create a stronger weatherization training program for unskilled workers, provide immediate training for weatherization contractors and develop web-based materials. The intention is to strengthen local economies by ensuring that weatherization work is done by local contractors who hire locally.
Maine State Housing Authority, Augusta, Maine, $880,010
Maine’s cost-shared $1 million project will partner with three community colleges to outfit weatherization training centers and enhance the hands-on aspects of weatherization training for new and existing workers, including auditors and weatherization technicians. The testing and installation labs will provide interactive learning, essential to training a high-quality, certified workforce. Facilities will employ qualified trainers who will use the new, DOE-standardized weatherization training curricula, to improve the quality of on-the-job training.
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