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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
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