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Issue Position: Developing the Next Generation of Workers

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Infrastructure Education

One of the biggest challenges facing local communities is the loss of young people who grow up or go to school here, but then leave to start careers and settle elsewhere.

To combat this trend, Assemblymember Barrett spearheads the Historic Trades Initiative. The Historic Trades Initiative partners with local institutions like Dutchess BOCES, Dutchess Community College, and the national not-for-profit HistoriCorps to train the next generation of local tradesmen and women to rehabilitate historic structures. The first project from this initiative was launched at Quiet Cove Park in Poughkeepsie in April 2018. Students from DCC and Dutchess BOCES worked with the team from HistoriCorps to rehabilitate two historic buildings in the park. The students learn new career skills and earn academic credit.

Assemblymember Barrett continues to pursue ways to forge partnerships with our local community colleges and businesses to develop a next generation workforce here in the Hudson Valley.


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