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District 6,8 and UVM partner with Central Vermont Career Center LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, of course, when we make the decision to
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  be outside the door. Yeah, that's true, you probably won't maunt, dissolve.
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  Speaker 3: Tries.
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  Speaker 4: You're ready to file in in order. Everybody ready. I'm
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  missing I'm missing one speaker. I'm missing one so I'm
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  a little worried about that, but.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Yeah, everybody ready.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Welcome and good afternoon everyone. Hello.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Jody Emerson, Superintendent, director of the Centralvermonk Career Center
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  School District and on behalf of the Central Vermont Career Center.
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  It is my pleasure to welcome you to today's signing ceremony.
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  This is a moment of both celebration and commitment, a
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  time when we come together to recognize the power of
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  collaboration and the shared responsibility we hold for the safety
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  and well being of our communities. Today we formalize partnerships
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  between the Central Vermont Career Center School District, Vermont EMS
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  Districts six and eight, and the University of Vermont Health Network.
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  These agreements create a clear path forward for expanding access
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  to emergency medical services, education, and training right here in
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  Central Vermont. This effort is about more than courses and certifications,
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  It is about strengthening our emergency response system, meeting critical
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  workforce needs, and ensuring that those who dedicate themselves to
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  caring for others have the training and support they need
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  to succeed. By combining our resources and utilizing the learning
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  spaces of the Central Vermont Crew, we are eliminating redundancies
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  in equipment and resource allocation, thereby increasing efficiency. We are
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  excited to pilot this type of partnership in EMS training.
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  I want to thank our partners Joe Aldsworth and David
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  Danforth of District six, Matthew Parish of District eight, and
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  Joshua Luduke of the University of Vermont Health Network Medical
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  Center for their leadership and commitment to this work, and
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  to the State Emergency Medical Services Chief Will Moran, who
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  is providing additional support for this partnership.
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  Speaker 2: Each of you brings vital.
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  Speaker 7: Resources, expertise, envision to this collaboration and it is only
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  through this shared effort that.
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  Speaker 6: We can achieve such meaningful impact.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you also to Commissioner Smith for joining us today,
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  as well as our representatives from centers at Sander's office.
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  As we sign these agreements today, let us also recognize
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  what they represent a long term commitment to innovation, access,
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  and excellence in emergency medical education. Together, we are building
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  the foundation for a stronger, safer, and healthier Central Vermont.
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  Thank you for joining us to celebrate this significant milestone.
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  I will now turn the floor over to Maggie Burke,
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  speaking on behalf of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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  Speaker 8: Good afternoon. My name's Maggie Burke. I'm an outreach representative
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  for Senator Bernie Sanders. I also happen to be a
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  graduate of the UVM Paramedic Program. Dear friends, I'm sorry
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  you cannot join you today or sorry reading this letter
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  on behalf of Senator Sanders. Dear friends, I'm sorry you
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  cannot join you today, but I want to extend my
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  congratulations to everyone involved in this important partnership, Central Vermont
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  Career Center, Vermont EMS District six and eight, the UVM
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  Health Network Paramedic Program. Your collaboration sets an example of
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  the way working together at a grassroots level can increase
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  opportunities for vermontors throughout the state. Let's be clear, rural
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  communities in Vermont these serious problems, and one of them
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  is access to quality healthcare. When your neighbor or family
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  member is in trouble, it's the EMS providers who show
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  up first. Their training and judgment can be the difference
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  between life and death.
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  Speaker 1: We owe them more than just thanks.
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  Speaker 2: We owe them real support.
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  Speaker 8: That means doing all we can to ensure they are
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  fully staffed, equipped and trained to respond to emergencies. And
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  too many communities across the nation EMS agencies are not
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  getting the support they need to do their jobs. It's
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  time for that to change. This is why I was
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  proud to secure congressionally directed spending to support more EMS
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  education in Vermont, and why I'm pleased to hear about
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  the partnerships you are announcing today. By connecting a career
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  center and technical education center to local EMS districts and
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  Vermont's largest health network, you are bringing opportunities to vermontors
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  where they live. To my mind, if we want to
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  ensure the future of EMS in Vermont, we've got to
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  expand access to affordable training opportunities, especially to young people
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  like students at Central Vermont Career Center, and to working
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  class Vermonitors, and I'm hopeful these partnerships will do just that.
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  Thank you for your commitment to this work and for
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  helping a build and for helping build a stronger and
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  healthier Vermont. Sincerely, Senator Bernie Sanders.
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  Speaker 7: Next, I'd like to invite District's six chair, Joe Aldsworth.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for
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  all being here and to extend my deepest gratitude to
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  all our providers in the room. Without your Without you,
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  EMS could not it would not exist. Each of us
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  stepped forward into EMS one reason or another, but as
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  a as a core, our work is about service to
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  our communities. As we look towards the future of EMS,
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  we stand at a turning point. Vermont EMS providers are
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  balancing the realities of aging in place, fainly commitments, and
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  the need to continue working. Unfortunately, this burden often follows
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  on the few who remained active in the ranks, and
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  we continue to see the attrition with fire, too few
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  stepping forward to replace them. This cooperative effort seeks to
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  challenge that we aim to harness the energy of our youth,
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  to inspire them and to provide consistent, high quality and
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  affordable training, both for the next generation and for those
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  who serve today. Investing in our youth is a key
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  to recruitment for future EMS professionals who will carry the
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  torch forward. These goals are not only about sustaining EMS
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  in District six and District eight, but it's also creating
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  a model for the future of our EMS across the
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  entire state of Vermont. This is an investment in quality, longevity,
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  and resilience. I want to extend my sincere thanks to
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  the Vermont EMS and Will Moran for supporting and believing
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  in our vision. I also like to thank the University
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  of University of Vermont for their ongoing commitment to training,
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  and the Central Vermont Career Center for their shared vision
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  of the future of MS and the skilled trades. Lastly,
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  I want to thank the public for their unwavering support.
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  Without you, our work would not be possible. So here's
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  to the future of MS, to training that builds bridges
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  to the future, vocations for our use to education that
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  supports our curve providers, and the continued delivery of the
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  highest quality pre hospital patient care which improves lives here
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  in Central Vermont every day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Next up is Matthew Parish, District eighth President.
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  Speaker 3: I would just like to thank all the services from
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  District to District six for including in this program.
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  Speaker 9: I am excited to see some longevity and training and consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Sure appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Will Moran is next up, the State MS chief.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you having number one. I want to thank you
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  for the opportunity to be here today, UH and to
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  represent the Health Department and the Commissioner in our investment
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  in this regional UMS education collaborative. You know, training em
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  S commatis today is difficult. The job we ask them
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  to do is difficult, and the knowledge, skills and abilities
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  they have to have to meet the public expectation of
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  receiving high quality basic and advanced life support is unmatched
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  and like nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen before.
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  Speaker 10: So it's these type of collaborative efforts that we think
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  are the future of the MS training and education across
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  the city. You know, we look to folks in leadership
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  positions both in EMS districts, in education centers, in our
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  hospitals to create these opportunities, and it's a pleasure that
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  the Health Department has to help fund these projects. So
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  we look forward to continuing to support this lord and
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  we look forward to seeing the resources of the program.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much, josh Alla the Duke you become
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  Paramedic Program Director.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: I'd love thank you all for coming today on this
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  beautiful fall day here in Vermont, so that we can
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  announce our partnership both to bring our paramedic program education
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  directly here to Central Vermont, to support Central Vermont in
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  bringing MS education close to home so that they can
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  receive the same education that we are offering to both
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  our New York partnership and a Vermont partnership in a
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  hybrid format, so that people can focus on supporting their communities,
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  their families, and bridging that all gap that we see
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  in reural healthcare where we are not traveling hours to
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  receive education, but we can stay close to home and
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  continue to offer excellent services to both our community while
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  also meeting our academic commitment to becoming paramedics and serving
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  our communities better in the future. Thank you all for
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  being here today.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, And finally, Commissioner Smith of the Department of Labor,
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  thanks so much for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody.
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  Speaker 9: My name's Kendall Smith and I'm the Commissioner of the
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  Vermont Department of Labor, and I also want to mention
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  I am a POWD. Spalding graduate who took classes at
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  the career center behind me, So I could not be
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  more thrilled to be standing in this parking lot today
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  where I parked for a few years.
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  Speaker 2: Of my earlier life.
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  Speaker 9: Being the last speaker, I'm going to try to round
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  it out and not keep us too long here, but
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  I do want to take a moment to recognize and
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  celebrate the successful launch of these new training pathways and
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  expanded training pathways and voice our support of the Central
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  Romote Career Center.
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  Speaker 2: And school District on this endeavor on.
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  Speaker 6: Behalf of the state of Vermont.
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  Speaker 9: As we all know, workforese votages continue to challenge our
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  state in all sectors. It doesn't matter if I'm speaking
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  with manufacturers, those in it, the hospitality industry, healthcare, education,
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  or the trades, the comments are the same, and creative
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  partnerships like this one with education and industry and leaning
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  it together are exactly.
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  Speaker 2: What we need to meet those challenges head on.
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  Speaker 12: The signing of the MLUS today is a powerful example
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  of collaboration, Like some of the other super cub shared
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  problem solving as well as a commitment to service, and
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  that is what's going to help keeping this region of
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  the state successful and succeed into The one thing that
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  I've come to associate with the governor is the saying
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  solve problems and help people, which seems fitting today given
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  the spirit of service associated with.
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  Speaker 2: Being an EMT or a paramedic.
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  Speaker 9: Service is one of the most powerful ways that Vermonitors.
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  Speaker 1: Can give back to their needs.
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  Speaker 2: For those who choose ms, that service means answering the
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  call in a moment of crisis.
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  Speaker 9: Providing comfort and care, and quite literally saving lives.
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  Speaker 2: And the best part is this canon is the structured
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  career path.
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  Speaker 9: More and more I hear from our eleven regional offices
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  around this state in putting the one just up the hill,
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  the McFarland Barry, the Farling Building and Barry that job
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  seekers walking through their doors are midlife career changers, whether
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  by choice or necessity. And having a suite of training
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  programs like this that we connect that we can connect
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  them to as a new career pathway option is imperative
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  for us. Vermont's future depends on making sure no matter
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  what stage of life you're.
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  Speaker 2: At, and you have access to the.
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  Speaker 9: Education and training that will lead to meaningful employment and experiences.
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  And one of the few things that excites me about
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  this effort today is that these programs are varied in
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  their duration and delivery, with different participation options such as workshops, quarterly,
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  hybrid modules, and more intensive trainings, which is going to
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  create multiple on ramps and accessibility. I also want to
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  mention the department is very interested in howth service like
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  this can be leveraged more broadly as a workforce solution,
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  as a recruitment strategy, and as a way of strengthening
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  our communities. So we look forward to learning from this work,
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  supporting its growth, and expanding.
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  Speaker 6: The opportunities that it creates. Thank you, and I'll turn it.
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  Speaker 2: Back over to the week.
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  Speaker 7: And now I'll invite Matthew Parrish and Joseph Aldworth forward
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  so that we can sign this document. Thank you, mother,
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  An say