Designing Care for the Green Workforce Conversation & Year-End Partner Appreciation Gathering

​This convening will bring together workforce partners, social service providers, and community stakeholders to address a central challenge in green workforce development: training alone is not enough. Many Bronx residents pursuing green careers face immediate life circumstances—housing instability, caregiving responsibilities, food insecurity, limited income, and mental health pressures—that impact their ability to enroll, complete the programming, and transition into meaningful jobs.

​The Bronx Green Jobs Center must be designed with these realities in mind—functioning not only as a site for learning, but as a place of stability, community, and support.

• ​Identify the most pressing non-academic barriers faced by program participants, including financial hardship, mental health needs, and family obligations.

• ​Discuss potential wraparound services that could be embedded in or co-located at the Bronx Green Jobs Center.

• ​Explore funding models for stipends, paid training programs, and public-private partnerships that ease the burden on low-income participants.

• ​Build consensus around core design principles for a trauma-informed, supportive, and accessible training ecosystem.

​This roundtable doubles as our end-of-year Bronx Green Jobs Center (BGJC) Appreciation Gathering, recognizing the partners who have collectively strengthened the green workforce visioning in 2025. We will also share high-level updates on BGJC’s development and plans for the upcoming year.