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Introducing Our New Staff Members

The Building Pathways team is expanding! This month, we welcomed two new team members: Helen Barrios, our Care That Works Program Coordinator, and Lindsay McCluskey, our new Training Program Director.

Helen Barrios is a first-generation Guatemalan with a passion for community work. She brings her background in the building trades, as well as her extensive experience with young children as a Kindergarten Teacher, Nanny, and Au Pair, to our team. As our new Care That Works Program Coordinator, Helen will help us expand outreach to increase the number of families and providers offering early morning child care, a lack of which can often be a barrier to those looking to enter the trades.

Lindsay McCluskey is an experienced organizer joining us after spending six years at Community Labor United in various roles, including Senior Organizer, Deputy Director, and, most recently, Care That Works Senior Strategist. She has also worked with the Greater Boston Labor Council and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, where she assisted with engaging young union members and coalition organizing. As our new Training Program Director, Lindsay will work closely with our instructors to ensure our pre-apprenticeship program provides our students with the best training possible, and with our students to secure family-sustaining careers in the union building trades.

We are excited to have Helen and Lindsay at our organization, and we look forward to collaborating with them to further our mission of diversifying the union building trades and making them a more accessible career path.

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Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, you are not eligible for the Building Pathways Pre-Apprenticeship Program, as we can only accept residents of Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk counties. Check out our sister organizations across Massachusetts:

Building Pathways, Worcester-Fitchburg
Kelsey Lamoureux, Program Director of the Worcester Jobs Fund Central MA Workforce Investment Board
340 Main St., Suite 400
Worcester, MA 01608
Tel: (508) 373-7641
Email: Lamoureuxk@worcesterma.gov

Building Pathways South (serving Bristol and Plymouth counties)
Yvonne Tobey
Project Coordinator
Tel: (774) 238-1165
Email: buildingpathways.south@gmail.com

Community Works (serving Western MA)
Jeff Napolitano
Program Director
Tel: (413) 545-1472
Email: jjnapolitano@umass.edu
https://www.facebook.com/umasscommunityworks/