Building Bright Futures has awarded a grant through its Vermont Early Childhood Fund (VECF) to a help a coalition of local partners, organized through Childcare Counts, develop a vocational pathway which weaves together English Language Learning (ELL), vocational training and…
The end of the semester was a busy one for Leland & Gray's Senior Survival and Windham Regional Career Center's Professional Communications classes, both working in collaboration with the Pipelines and Pathways Program. Students spent the semester learning about professionalism,…
In January 2023 a new group of refugees from Ethiopia will settle in the Deerfield Valley, with the help of ECDC and local cosponsors. To help these new Vermonters access employment, a webinar for employers was offered on January 17th.…
BY CHRIS MAYS Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — Southeast Vermont Transit is exploring the possibility of adding “micro transit” routes to help get people to their night shift jobs. “Micro transit is Uber with a van,” Randy Schoonmaker, CEO of Southeast Vermont Transit,…
On October 20th, BDCC’s Pipelines and Pathways Program (P3) partnered with Leland & Gray High School and the Windham Regional Career Center to host its first-ever Reality Fair!. This thoroughly interactive, hands-on experience covered financial literacy and practical life skills…
The newest version of the Promising Jobs brochure is now available - visit https://mcclurevt.org/most-promising-jobs/ to see digital versions in multiple languages as well as to order print copies. On this site, you can read about the promising jobs, view translations…
From the Brattleboro Reformer November 1, 2022 By Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — Refugee resettlement is off to a good start in Southern Vermont, where programs were built from the ground up with a lot of community collaboration. Joe…
By Chris Mays Reposted From the Brattleboro Reformer TOWNSHEND — Students from Windham County attended a fair preparing them for many of the adult experiences ahead — the good, the bad and the ugly. Two gyms at Leland & Gray…
BDCC & Refugee Partners Selected to Join National Skilled Immigrant Integration Program Brattleboro, Vermont—September 6th, 2022— Brattleboro has been selected by World Education Services (WES) as one of 16 communities invited to join the fifth cohort of the Skilled…
On August 18th, the BDCC hosted a second "New Vermonters in the Workplace" webinar in partnership with Bennington County Regional Commission, Southwest Vermont Chamber of Commerce, and the Southern Vermont Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce. This meeting covered the legal…