Cherokee Nation Career Services is being awarded a $1.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to invest in trade training services at the tribe with a focus on women in non-traditional trade training.

 The Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistant Grant will be used to provide non-traditional employment training and services to traditionally under-served populations of Cherokee Nation citizens with an emphasis on including women, justice-involved persons and those in recovery.

Over the next three years, NET will involve the training of 21 building trade trainees, 21 fiber optics/broadband technician trainees and 30 high-voltage lineman trainees.

This project supports workforce education and skills training activities that are directly connected to the demand for skilled labor in the business community and will result in well-paying quality jobs for Cherokee citizens.

There will be a minimum of 72 Cherokee citizens, who are 18 years of age and older and who live within the Cherokee Nation Reservation, selected as trained participants.