This EDA investment supports massachusetts BAY community college with purchasing equipment for the college's new simulation center (learning and training laboratory) for curricula in health…

The U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $2.5 million Project Grant to Massachusetts Bay Community College under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (CFDA 11.307) program. The funding will support the purchase of equipment for the College's new Simulation Center for curricula in health sciences, early childhood education, and human services. The equipment will provide residents in West Boylston, Massachusetts opportunities to establish greater economic stability through in-demand, good paying careers with room for advancement. Training healthcare workers and early childhood educators through the Simulation Center aims to close longstanding gaps in earnings and wealth in the region. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Worcester County Jail and House of Corrections, will receive the EDA funding as a sub-awardee to implement the project, which upon completion will diversify the local economy and promote regional growth.

This EDA investment supports massachusetts BAY community college with purchasing equipment for the college's new simulation center (learning and training laboratory) for curricula in health sciences, early child education, and human services. The equipment purchased for this project is urgently needed to provide residents in the region an opportunity to establish greater economic stability by having good paying, in-demand jobs, with career ladders that will allow them further economic success. In addition, training health care workers and early childcare educators will help close long-entrenched gaps in earnings and wealth in the area. Once completed, the project will diversify the local economy and promote growth throughout the region.