What Are Green-Collar Jobs?
Green-collar jobs, as we define them, are well-paid, career track jobs that contribute directly to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. Like traditional blue-collar jobs, green-collar jobs range from low-skill, entry-level positions to high skill, higher-paid jobs, and include opportunities for advancement in both skills and wages.
Our Green Pathway training program is designed to train and place our clients in green-collar jobs that provide a pathway out of poverty.
What Is Prision Reentry?
Prision reentry, the process of leaving prison and returning to society, has become a prominent issue both in Philadelphia and nationwide.
Throughout the United States and in Philadelphia, PA, incarceration rates have steadily risen over the past twenty-five years, and the number of prisoners released back in the community has increased proportionally. More than 650,000 individuals will be released from state and federal prisons across the country, almost four times the number released two decades earlier.
The daily population of the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) has experienced similar growth, increasing from about 4,000 in the late 1980s to between 7,500-8,000 in 2002 alone.
In 2008, the PPS estimates that it will have an average prison population in excess of 9,000. Many of these inmates will eventually be released from prison and will be eligible for our program. Roughly 10-12 percent will be U.S. Veterans.
