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Curriculum
Design and Training
GERI delivers a sustainable
communities and environmental justice curriculum, workshops and
training materials interfaced with multicultural educational
techniques. The training is highly interactive and is designed
to increase awareness and educate about fundamentals in this
challenging arena.
The curriculum
and training can be tailored and delivered to an audience of
multi-stakeholder groups or to a single stakeholder organization.
The objective is to enhance to capacity of individuals, institutions
and communities to identify and address critical issues and engage
in constructive dialogue.
GERI
launched an innovative training program in 2004 funded by
a brownfields grant from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response. The Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment
Program (SBRP) is focused on brownfields redevelopment. It
is a new integrated approach to brownfields that bridges
environmental justice, public health, environmental cleanup
and land reuse goals with neighborhood revitalization
objectives.
GERI
is piloting this innovation that brings together environmental
justice groups and CDCs in a training program which helps them
learn about the obstacles to and opportunities posed by
brownfields, ultimately, leading to reuse of under-utilized
properties.
These constituencies will be trained
in ways that promote community involvement, advance networking
opportunities, stimulate tech transfer between these groups, cross
pollinate the skills these sectors bring to neighborhood
revitalization and, ultimately, result in coordination in terms of
working on local projects.
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