WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Northern New England Tradeswomen, Inc. 51 Park Street
Essex Junction, VT 05452
SUMMARY:
Northern New England Tradeswomen (NNETW) will pursue four strategies to
increase the rates at which women in Vermont and New Hampshire enter and remain
in the skilled trades:
- Provide individualized technical assistance to employers and labor
unions to assist them in their efforts to hire and retain women in
nontraditional occupations.
- Make effective use of the industry's infrastructure to influence
attitudes and enhance opportunities for women exploring or pursuing
trades-related work.
- Furthering develop its website, thus improving NNETW's capacity to
connect rural tradeswomen to one another and to employers.
- Pilot two unique apprenticeship initiatives in modular home
construction and historic preservation at the state's new prison for women in
Windsor, Vermont.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Nontraditional Employment for Women 243 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
SUMMARY:
With the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan and the Ground Zero site,
thousands more construction workers will be needed in New York City. In order
to assist employers and labor unions recruit, place, and retain women
construction workers for these and other projects in the city, NEW will provide
the following technical services to employers and labor unions:
- Trade-specific, targeted outreach and recruitment efforts tailored to
deliver job-ready women for possible employment.
- An employment "incubator" model for placing women in large-scale
construction projects such as those planned for Lower Manhattan and Ground
Zero. Instead of placing a woman in a particular trade in which she would work
for multiple employers according to job availability, a new tradeswoman would
be placed with one employer/contractor on the mega-project site.
- Expansion of its computerized Tradeswomen's Registry of NEW training
program graduates and working tradeswomen, to assist in placement of qualified
candidates in available construction jobs.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Women's Resource Center 678 Front Ave., N.W., Suite 180
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
SUMMARY:
The Women's Resource Center (WRC) New Tradition project will create new
technical assistance products and services for job creators throughout
Michigan, with a focus on West Michigan. WRC will provide customized technical
assistance to employers and labor unions to improve their recruitment, hiring,
and retention practices involving women in nontraditional jobs. Technical
assistance services will also reach a wider audience through several
strategies, including WRC's continued and expanded use of the Internet to
deliver its technical assistance services.
Where advancement of women is identified as an issue, WRC will develop
targeted leadership development services to employers and women employees,
enabling employers to meet their employee retention and organizational
leadership needs while also benefiting employed tradeswomen and other women in
nontraditional jobs.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Chicago Women in Trades 1657 West Adams Street, Suite 401
Chicago, IL 60612
SUMMARY:
Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT) will provide technical assistance and
support to unions, apprenticeship programs, and tradeswomen as part of its
Women's Apprenticeship Growth and Equality (WAGE) program. Through WAGE, CWIT
will facilitate recruitment and preparation of more women for the plumbers,
sheet metal workers, drywall finishers, bricklayers, laborers, and elevator
constructors apprenticeship programs. The project will also focus on
tradeswomen retention and support. WAGE will enable more women to reach
self-sufficiency through employment in high-wage, high-skill opportunities in
the construction sector.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Area Resources for Community and Human Services 4236
Lindell Blvd., Suite 400 St. Louis, MO 63108
SUMMARY:
The Reentry Project of Area Resources for Community and Human Services
(ARCHS) will assist women being released from prison to achieve and maintain
employment in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations. Pre-release
services will be coordinated with Greenville Federal Prison to give women the
tools they need to enter apprenticeship in industries ranging from
cabinetmaking to computer maintenance. ARCHS will provide technical assistance,
training, and support to participating employers and labor unions to prepare
them to recruit and retain these women in apprenticeship and nontraditional
occupations.
After successful completion of pre-apprenticeship training, women will
be placed in apprenticeship or given the option of beginning entry-level
employment in order to establish a successful recent work history. ARCHS will
provide case management, mentors, job coaches, and other support services to
ensure that women are able to overcome obstacles associated with acclimating to
work. Once a reasonable level of stability has been attained, women who were
placed in entry-level employment will be placed in nontraditional occupations.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Montana Job Training Partnership 302 N. Last Chance Gulch,
Suite 409 Helena, MT 59601
SUMMARY:
The Montana Job Training Partnership (MJTP) will provide technical
assistance to employers and labor unions geared towards the successful
placement and retention of women in apprenticeship and nontraditional
occupations. MJTP aims to create a sustainable system that will allow employers
and labor unions to better develop and administer their own employment and
training programs.
MJTP will provide targeted and far-reaching outreach, recruitment, and
orientation sessions and will identify and address participant and employer
training needs and barriers to meeting these needs. MJTP will also provide
ongoing orientation of and liaison with employers, labor unions, and
tradeswomen to cultivate environments for success.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Tradeswomen, Inc. 2485 West 14th St. Oakland, CA 94607
SUMMARY:
Tradeswomen, Inc. (TWI) will provide a comprehensive technical
assistance program to employers and labor unions to enable them to increase
their success in recruiting and retaining women in apprenticeship and on the
job. TWI's partners include public utility companies, mega-project general
contractors, a public housing developer, a general contractor, and two key
union apprenticeship programs.
Technical assistance to enhance recruitment efforts will include
providing guidance for targeting outreach and orientations; skills training and
support services for potential recruits; linkages to female graduates;
development of a local computerized database referral system; and monthly
support groups for pre-apprentice women.
Technical assistance to increase retention rates will include ongoing
evaluations, consultations and mediations; support groups; interviews with
women working on the projects; and exit interviews for those women who leave
the field.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles 3447 Atlantic Ave.,
Suite 230 Long Beach, CA 90807
SUMMARY:
Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER) will provide
customized services to employer and labor union partners to prepare them to
provide opportunities for women in apprenticeship and nontraditional
occupations. The project targets large industries which offer high-paying jobs
and employ a low percentage of women.
WINTER will assist the companies, unions, and apprenticeship programs to
develop strategic plans to recruit and hire well-prepared women to enter their
industries. The project's goals are to develop an advisory group to create a
strategic plan for each partner; assist the partner in meeting its goals
through quarterly training and monthly individual technical assistance; and
outreach about training and employment opportunities to 1,000 women who live in
Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. 1714 N.E. Alberta St. Portland,
OR 97211
SUMMARY:
The Oregon Tradeswomen (OT) Portland Pathways to Success program will
assist Oregon and Washington employer and labor union partners to successfully
recruit, place, and retain women in jobs and apprenticeships leading to the
skilled trades. The project will build permanent systems that can have a
profound, lasting impact.
OT will create effective marketing materials to help its employer/labor
union partners attract women to training and apprenticeship programs. Its
pre-apprenticeship program will provide them with women who are prepared to
succeed on the job. Technical assistance, support groups, and mentoring
programs will assist them in improving retention of women.
WANTO Grant Award: 9-30-03
GRANTEE:
HRC, Inc. 1015 Check Street Wasilla, Alaska 99654
SUMMARY:
Human Resources (HRC) will develop and administer an Alaska WANTO
program designed to assist employers and labor unions in the placement and
retention of women nontraditional occupations. Technical assistance to
employers and labor unions will include:
- Providing outreach and orientation services for women. HRC will
recruit, assess, and deliver career counseling to women job seekers, including
the economically and socially disadvantaged Alaskans they have served for 28
years.
- Creating a computerized database of women who are potential
nontraditional occupation trainees and employees. HRC will match the identified
job-seeking women to training/employment opportunities through job development
with employers and labor unions participating in the WANTO project.
- Provide post-employment services to women including mentoring and
support groups.
- Conduct liaison services between women placed in nontraditional jobs
and their employers and labor unions to address workplace issues related to
gender.
- Conducting exit interviews with tradeswomen leave their employment to
evaluate their job experiences and assess program effectiveness.
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