Jung on career pathways, Maritime Fair, Waterfront Pathways, B-Source NYC
Jung describes the Maritime Career and Aviation Awareness Fair connecting 500 high school students with industry experts, the Waterfront Pathways program for MWBEs, and B-Source NYC helping local companies secure $13 million in offshore wind contracts, now expanding to building electrification.
We are also creating career paths for young people through our Maritime Career and Aviation Awareness Fair.
We hosted the seventh annual fair.
this year and connected more than 500 high school students with industry experts on potential future careers.
We were making significant investments to prepare local workers and New Yorkers from all backgrounds and businesses for the transition to the green economy.
Our Waterfront Pathways program is helping address disparities in public procurement by expanding opportunities for MWBEs and waterfront industries.
And through B-Source NYC, we are supporting local small and medium-sized industrial businesses to capture contract opportunities in the offshore wind supply chain.
The first year of the program saw eight local companies secure over $13 million in offshore wind contracts.
The second year of this program is focused on supporting local general, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors to expand within the growing building electrification sector.
And our economic mobility networks in Sunset Park and Hunts Point, as well as the East Brooklyn Workforce Development Fund and the Staten Island North Shore Workforce Fund, are helping more New Yorkers and waterfront communities get on a pathway to a good paying career.