- Benefit the region by placing recent high school graduates and under-employed adults into existing skilled jobs with security and future advancement.
- Promote commerce through continuing education of skilled incumbent workers.
- Positively impact the critical labor shortage in marinas and boatyards, along the entire shoreline, along every river system and around every large inland lake in Connecticut.
- Solve the problem of an inadequate highly skilled labor supply enabling marina and boatyard owners to increase their capacity to better serve more of the boating public, thereby growing their own businesses and the economy. This, in turn, will have a beneficial ‘trickle-down’ effect as marinas hire contractors to build additional service buildings, buy more repair and testing equipment, etc., thereby contributing to economic growth generally.
- Recruit students from disadvantaged urban as well as suburban populations furthering efforts at school and community desegregation.
- Serve as a model in vocational and urban education. This program will set high standards for attendance and achievement. It will also serve as a model for industry/school/state collaboration that can be replicated in other parts of the country.
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