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Yvonne Jackson of Bethel owns Alaska Rural Professional Development. She employs two women who are also Alaska Native and from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. One is from St. Mary’s and the other is from Kasigluk. Together the three women are working to fill a workforce training gap.
“We provide professional development training and soft skills that are needed for almost all the jobs in Alaska,” Jackson said.
Her company provides training in over 100 workforce skills.
“Servant leadership, team building, communication, public speaking, and many other soft skills courses that we have to offer,” Jackson said. It also offers training in the Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Joining us for Coffee at KYUK is Yvonne Jackson, who has a deep connection to Bethel and has created a business to meet some of the region’s needs. Here to discuss how Alaska Rural Professional Development works to increase capacity in the region is KYUK’s Anna Rose MacArthur.
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ALIQUIPPA For more than half of his life, Zabriawn Smith has waited for a promised community center in Plan 11.
The 28-year-old Aliquippa native was still a teenager when crews first broke ground on the towering, L-shaped structure at the corner of Washington Street and Sixth Avenue in 2005.
“I rode the bus past it,” he said. “I remember when it started, and I remember when it stopped. It just sits there, mostly empty.
Pastors at a local church, Sound the Alarm Ministries, purchased the former Jones Elementary School site 20 years ago alongside more than 100 other properties in Aliquippa with a desire to expand affordable housing and revitalize the local economy. Many of the lots were sold for just several hundred dollars at tax sales.
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