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MICUA Matters Fall 2008
The first year of the Sojourner-Douglass College Phoenix Project-a customized training program providing job training, job placement, and job retention support for residents of the Park Heights community in Baltimore-ended successfully with 101 individuals placed in jobs, exceeding program goals. Sojourner-Douglass was awarded $650,000 in grant funding for the project in 2007, in a partnership between the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Park Heights Community Development Association, and the Workforce Center at Sojourner-Douglass College's Division of Professional and Continuing Studies.
Based on projected growth in the healthcare industry, three training programs were implemented for students trained as certified nursing assistants, medication technicians, and environmental technicians. Governor Martin O'Malley has praised the program, saying "your work in bringing together leaders in government, our institutions of higher education, and the businesses and families that make up our neighborhoods is an example of what can be accomplished when we come together and choose that better, brighter future that we all prefer."
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