Homegrown Pathways' AmeriCorps aspirations ...

Group hopes to broaden career opportunities on the Western Slope ...

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Homegrown Pathways' AmeriCorps aspirations This is exciting. A local organization — Homegrown Pathways — is aiming to create career-focused programs for Western Slope youth. Eventually, the organization is hoping to become an AmeriCorps affiliate and use AmeriCorps members in the creation of such programming.  As Homegrown Pathways founder Colin Lacy told Montrose Daily Press reporter Kylea Henseler recently, the organization is looking to help solve a regional problem: local youth leaving the Western Slope in search of better employment and career opportunities elsewhere.  "We have this challenge with local, homegrown talent really having limited access to the most quality career pathways in their home region," Colin said.  By eventually connecting with AmeriCorps, Homegrown Pathways plans to employ that organization's model, allowing young adults to get paid while exploring the career opportunities in their own backyard and also helping to create career pathway programs for other Western Slope youth. "It's this dual impact model where AmeriCorps members are helping to implement the actual organizational model, but at the same time, the AmeriCorps members themselves as young people from these same communities," Colin told Kylea. "The experience is a career pathway accelerant for them into opportunities in their home range." To read the full story, check out: Homegrown Pathways could become the Western Slopes newest AmeriCorps program. Have a Good One,  Jeremy Morrison, managing editor jeremy.morrison@montrosepress.com QUICK LINKS Listen to our podcast Montrose Fresh, it's available everywhere podcasts are found including Apple, Pandora, Spotify and Amazon Music Remember those we've lost in our obituaries section View the letter to the editor. If you would like to submit a letter please email: editor@montrosepress.com Get today's weather forecast Check out our classifieds and explore the MDP e-editions Already a subscriber, but need to activate your digital account? Click here to create an account or call our office at 970-249-3444 and we'll get you all set

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