UMWA Career Centers, Inc.
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If you are interested or would like to receive information on any of the following grant programs; please contact: Washington, PA Office @ 1-800-826-2338 West Virginia Office @ 1-877-SWV-UMWA E-mail us: umwacc1@earthlink.net New Announcements: The UMWA Career Centers, Inc. has made application for a grant through the Mine Safety and Health Administration for a Mine Rescue Team and First Responder Grant. Additionally, a request for funds to train incumbent and new inexperienced miners for the mining industry has been made. Current Grants BROOKWOOD SAGO GRANT: Grant to provide a training program for Mine Emergency Preparedness for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) NEW MINER TRAINING PROGRAM: Grant to service 150 individuals and give them the necessary skills and training to join the workforce as a new inexperienced miner in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. MAPLE CREEK/84 Rapid Response: Rapid Response money received from the State of Pennsylvania to provide services to dislocated coalminers from Maple Creek, Inc. and the 84 mine dislocations PA COAL: Pennsylvania grant for a Community Outreach Assisted Learning (COAL) program to assist TANF eligible participants in the rural coal mining communities WEST VIRGINIA REGION I: Partnership with West Virginia Region 1 Workforce Investment Board to provide services to dislocated coalminers in southern West Virginia Area 1. (ends 6/30/08) WEST VIRGINIA STATE SET ASIDE GRANT: Grant to service New Inexperienced Miners and provide the necessary skills and ha hands on training to become miners in the industry. PENNSYLVANIA MINING INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP: Grant to provide companies in the mining industry with the guidance, assistance and financial means to upgrade their workforce through the utilization of Incumbent Worker training funds through the State of Pennsylvania. CECIL BALL FIELD: Grant received from the State of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection to help reclaim an abandoned mine site and transform into a baseball field for the Cecil Athletic Association.
US EARMARK 05: Awarded grant money from the U.S. Department of Labor to continue to providing services to dislocated coalminers and those residing in rural coal mining communities of Appalachia. US EARMARK 03: Grant from the Department of Labor through a US Congressional Earmark to identify, recruit, train and place dislocated coalminers and their spouses into jobs earning a living wage plus benefits. (ends 6/30/06) PA DEP: Grant received from the Department of Environment Protection in Pennsylvania to conduct a feasibility study on abandoned mine lands in Southwestern Pennsylvania. (9/22/04 - 12/31/05) OJJ/OCP: Grant received from the Office of Juvenile Justice, Department of Justice, through a US Congressional Earmark to operate an Outreach Crisis Program for troubled youth within a 150 mile radius of Washington, PA. (10/1/04 - 9/30/05)
For a complete list of the grants held by the UMWA CC Inc., please contact the site administrator.
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