Solid Waste Trainings and Technical Assistance
Zender Environmental and USDA Rural Development are pleased to offer the Alaska Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan (AISWMP) trainings in Anchorage in the spring and summer of 2010. Participants work on a laptop with an Alaska plan template. (Click here for more information about the template). By the end of the training, you will have a draft of a solid waste plan specific for your community. These trainings have been ongoing since 2006 and incorporate nearly 100 Alaska tribes’ comments into making them specific and useful to Alaska Native Villages. These hands-on, interactive trainings have been so successful there is now a Lower-48 version.
2010 Training Dates and Locations:
Three trainings are confirmed for 2010.
1. April 21-23, 2010 in downtown Anchorage
2. August 4-6, 2010 in downtown Anchorage
3. September 22-24, 2010 in downtown Anchorage
PLEASE NOTE: Sign-up for the September 22-24 training is currently on wait-list only. If you would like to put your name on the waiting list in case a participant cancels, please contact Shawna Trumblee, strumblee@zendergroup.org 907 211 2111
ISWMP trainings will continue in 2011 (winter, spring, summer)! Please check back, or contact Shawna to join our email list of updates. Thank you for your interest. Its been a great year of training!
Details:
- $500 travel stipend for participants who complete the 3-day training
- Training is free
- Training is for Alaska Tribes to maximize learning from other Villages what has worked well.
- Template is built around Alaska situations
- Template and training can be used for a full waste plan or a component of a your waste program
- Learn how to use the computer to address solid waste management problems, like sizing a dumpster
- Learn how to make a chart or graph in Excel
- Learn how to work with picture images and drawing tools
- Learn how to carry out a waste characterization
- Calculate your special wastes, such as electronics, batteries, used oil
- Calculate your construction wastes
- Learn to use Excel for budgeting
- Individual instruction for individual SWM problems
- Alaska-based agency speakers on funding opportunities with opportunity to network
- Open to folks who want a refresher or who wish to learn more about planning
- Meet, network, and discuss with other Alaska Tribes what works and what doesn’t
Free Technical Assistance:
Technical assistance is available after workshop completion to help you finish your plan or implement your plan. Staff has been providing technical assistance, research, and grantwriting to Tribes for past ten years so they are able to share the useful information from Villages around the State on what has worked. If your village has attended a training, we can help you apply for USDA water/waste grants or provide other solid waste assitance for free. Contact Shawna Trumblee at strumblee@zendergroup.org, 907 277 2111.
To apply:
To download the application form, click here.
To attend the training you must also submit a travel form, regardless of whether you request a $500 stipend. Click here for the travel form.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about these trainings, please contact Shawna Trumblee at strumblee@zendergroup.org, 907 277 2111. .
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