It was a big year for The Next Door’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP): So big the program needed an extra work crew to complete its projects in Hood River and Wasco counties.
Columbia Gorge Community College has assumed operations of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult/Dislocated Worker program, joining the WIOA Youth program CGCC began managing in 2017.
Columbia Gorge Community College has assumed operations of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult/Dislocated Worker program, joining the WIOA Youth program CGCC began managing in 2017. These programs were previously administered by Mid-Columbia Council of Governments and are contracted through the East Cascades Workforce Investment Board.
To the editor: We live in a time of change. It seems as if hopefulness in our future lies in our openness to participation. Over the last year I have had the pleasure to work closely with Kathy Schwartz in various civic engagements in The Dalles. Upon meeting her, I was immediately impressed with her can-do attitude and her leadership abilities.
Gorge employers were regularly saying they had trouble filling well-paying, good-benefit jobs, even though they didn’t even require a college education. Enter Gorge Works, a new program through the Port of The Dalles that offers paid summer internships and apprenticeship opportunities. It began taking applications for internships in mid-December, and the application period closes Jan. 31.
Checking in on the Insitu Internship program, we find them not working in their individual departments but working together with Washington Gorge Action Programs (WGAP) on a service project at the Guided Pathways housing project.