The purpose of this american rescue plan funded cooperative agreement is to provide funding to the city of SAN pablo to work with 3 public title 1 high schools to deploy an afterschool internship…

This $197,500 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the Administrator supports environmental justice activities in San Pablo, California under the EPA's Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program (EJG2G, CFDA 66.312). The City of San Pablo will work with three local public high schools to deploy a COVID-19 mitigation-focused afterschool internship program for disadvantaged students. The program will directly train 45 students annually in data collection and outreach campaign development to educate over 3,000 peers and community members on COVID-19 health impacts and access to reliable mitigation information. Sub-awardee Earth Team will assist with developing the internship curriculum. The funding period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023.

The purpose of this american rescue plan funded cooperative agreement is to provide funding to the city of SAN pablo to work with 3 public title 1 high schools to deploy an afterschool internship program for disadvantaged students, reaching out to peers and the public to raise awareness and mitigate the impacts of covid-19 (an airborne contaminant) on environmental justice communities. Project activities include developing the internship program that will directly train 45 students each year in data collection and content creation to launch outreach campaigns to 3,000 peers in 3 campuses and households along with educating the community of SAN pablo in related health impacts and facilitating access to reliable and actionable covid-19 mitigation information. Direct beneficiaries of this program are residents of the city of SAN pablo and the city of richmond, particularly high school students. In the midst of social distancing and local stay-at-home orders, especially in places where INT