Brightwood Community Center receives grant for employment services

Brightwood Community Center was awarded $393,946 to increase employment training initiatives and specialized services among Black residents. The employment initiative programming will include career services through Brightwood Community Center (BCC), and training through Hoosier occupational training Services, Star Training, Second Helpings, and the Indiana Plan for Equal Employment. “We proposed to help train and find employment for approximately 100 Black people between the ages of 18-35, women included,” said BCC Executive Director Shonna Majors. RELATED: ‘We’ll meet you where you are’: Local agencies offering DV survivors a helping hand “We previously did some workforce development last year and so this grant provides us another opportunity, a different opportunity to learn a skill set and then make a livable wage out of that training.” The new initiative will start in the summer. Brightwood Community Center grant Funds were awarded in the third round of grants from the Indianapolis African American Quality of Life Initiative (IAAQLI). IAAQLI is a place-based community change project established through a partnership between the National Urban League, the Indianapolis Urban League, and the African American Coalition of Indianapolis. Funded through a one hundred-million-dollar grant from the Lilly Endowment, the goal of the IAAQLI is to acknowledge concerns...