Pipeline to Pell: Leveraging Environmental Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship Pathways (Green Jobs) for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
May 23, 2024
2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern
The Office of Correctional Education, in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) invites you to participate in the Correctional Education Webinar Series entitled Pipeline to Pell. The webinar series focuses on advancing state and local implementation of inclusive, supportive, comprehensive, and high-quality correctional education programs that meet the diverse needs of students. The webinar sessions will provide participants with information, resources, and noteworthy practices in providing confined or incarcerated students with career-connected prison education programs.
The next webinar in the Pipeline to Pell series, “Leveraging Environmental Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship Pathways (Green Jobs) for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals,” will feature the Roots of Success Environmental and Literacy and Job Training Program and staff working in East Oregon Correctional Institution and Peralta Services Corporation. The first federally recognized Department of Labor CTE Environmental Literacy Instructor Apprenticeship Program in the nation, the program prepares youth and adults with barriers to employment to access jobs and career pathways in environmental fields and to improve environmental and social conditions in their communities.