The Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP) was established to provide a series of national pilot programs to test a range of strategies for the recruitment and training of young persons, who live near hazardous waste sites or in the community at risk of exposure to contaminated properties, for work in the environmental field.
The Min-Wt List is an information system to share and exchange information amoung those interested in Minority Worker Training Program issues as well as Brownfields Minority Worker Training issues. The following is a more detailed desciption of the Minority Worker Training Program.
This program (MWTP) represents a broad geographic spread and reaches several urban populations in high risk contaminated areas. These environmental career-oriented projects are developed within the context of other social and health needs of the community. The different programs provide pre-employment job training, including literacy, life skills,environmental preparation and other related courses construction skills training; environmental worker training
including hazardous waste, asbestos and lead abatement training; and safety and health training. Some training also includes enrollment in apprenticeship programs for construction and environmental remediation worker training. In
addition, particular focus is placed on etablishing a program of mentoring. These programs will help to enhance the participants problem solving skills, their understanding of self-esteem and team work in the application of technical
knowledge to environmental and related problems.
This program promotes partnerships or subagreements with academic and other institutions, with a particular focus
on historically black colleges and universities, and public schools and community-based organizations located in or nearby the impacted area to provide pre-math, science or other related education to program participants prior to or
concurrent with entry into the training program. The cooperative agreements provided funding to organizations to increase the number of underserved and unrepresented minorities in the environmental field with approximately $3 -3.5 Million earch year. The current recipients for the MWTP and a description of the programs are listed at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/programs/mwt/index.cfm. The four programs are:
Dillard University of New Orleans
OAI, Inc.,
Center to Protect Workers' Rights
, and the
New Jersey/New York Consortium
Brownfields Minority Worker Training Program
As part of the Department of Health and Human Services commitment to the Brownfields National Partnership
Agenda, the NIEHS has provided support for the establishment of the Brownfields Minority Worker Training
Programs targeting Brownfield Communities. The strategy of this initiative is to broaden the NIEHS Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP) to include a new component on Brownfields Worker Training, addressing the need for a more comprehensive training program to foster economic and environmental restoration of the identified
brownfield sites. The NIEHS has awarded, through an interagency agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), $2-3 Million yearly for the development of brownfields environmental job training programs targeting disadvantaged residents and to foster economic and environmental restoration to communities impacted by brownfields. The awardees for the Brownfields Minority Worker Training Program are Dillard University of New Orleans, OAI Inc.,Hazardous Materials and Training Research Institute, New Jersey/New York Consortium, and the Center to Protect Workers Rights. You can review our Brownfields Minority Worker Training Program at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/programs/bmwt/index.cfm.
For more information on the MWTP & BMWTP, please contact Ms. Sharon Beard, Industrial Hygienist, at P.O.Box 12233, MD EC-25, Research Triangle Park, NC, (919)541-1863, (301)451-5595 (fax), beard1@niehs.nih.gov (e-mail).
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