A Model For Worker Training

Brandon Dennison, CEO of the Coalfield Development Corporation in southern West Virginia, contributed his organization's successful model of a wholistic worker training program to the National Economic Transition or (NET) platform, which was released by the Just Transition Fund in June of 2020. In this report, the Just Transition Fund's Heidi Binko describes the goals of the NET Platform while Denison shares the training, education and job creation approach his organization is using to put people to work in central Appalachia.