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Digital renderings show the planned"Resiliency Operations Center" at Houston Community College, where officials hope to train law enforcement and others for flood disasters.A disaster-prone city like Houston should consider its workforce as part of its resiliency strategy, and the workers the region relies on ought to have “resilient” jobs too.
HCC will serve as the convening body for the collaborative, which dovetails with the work the community college system is doing through its broader disaster mitigation program, announced in April, which began enrolling students for the first time this fall.JPMorgan is backing the collaborative as part of its $3.3 million commitment to climate and sustainability initiatives in Houston.
In advance of Tuesday’s announcement, he said, the collaborative had started doing outreach through faith-based organizations, schools and other institutions in the neighborhoods included in Houston’s Complete Communities initiative. “One of my biggest growth constraints over the years has been finding skilled labor, specifically electricians,” said Pollock, whose TRIO Electric runs apprenticeship programs for high school students and adults. “We are in desperate need of that skill, and this collaborative between all these entities, including us, is all about creating that workforce that doesn’t exist.”
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