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Full Summary: Wesley Brooks, Director of Special Projects at The Center for Working Families and Green and Healthy Homes Initiative Coordinator for the City of Atlanta, will share practices from a series of programs and projects that involve workforce training and sustainable development. Information about how local residents have been trained in remediation of lead based paint, asbestos, and other residential safety hazards and how this training has resulted in new skills, green jobs, and housing rehabilitation will be discussed.
Georgia Innovation STIP Interns, 2012People Power in Economic Development
Guest Speaker:
Wesley Brooks, Director of Special Projects,
The Center for Working Families, Inc.
How can efforts to solve community problems lead to the creation of green jobs?
Wesley Brooks, Director of Special Projects at The Center for Working Families and Green and Healthy Homes Initiative Coordinator for the City of Atlanta, will share practices from a series of programs and projects that involve workforce training and sustainable development. Information about how local residents have been trained in remediation of lead based paint, asbestos, and other residential safety hazards and how this training has resulted in new skills, green jobs, and housing rehabilitation will be discussed.
AGENDA
LOCATION
Centergy Building at Technology Square
75 Fifth Street, NW, Atlanta, GA, 30808
Hodges Connections Room, Third Floor
More Information:
For more information, call Lynn Willingham at 404-894-0730 or e-mail lynn.willingham@innovate.gatech.edu
The Innovations in Economic Development forum brings together faculty, other researchers, students, economic developers, and policymakers to discuss leading-edge ideas and practices in economic development and innovation policy.
Presented by: the Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP), a joint initiative of Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute and the School of Public Policy
Co-sponsored by: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA)
For more information, visitstip.gatech.edu, click FORUM
