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City updates Working Communities effort: driving school, peer navigators and resident advisory council
Summary
Economic development officer Miranda Smith reported on the Greater Bangor region’s Working Communities participation and pilot programs that target barriers to employment — transportation, licensing, training costs and childcare — including a no‑cost driving-education program (12 graduates to date), a peer-navigator network and educational pathways with local partners.
Miranda Smith, the city’s economic development officer, briefed the committee on the Greater Bangor region’s participation in the Boston Federal Reserve’s Working Communities initiative and on local pilot programs designed to remove barriers to employment for low- and moderate-income (LMI) residents.
Smith said the initiative uses resident-informed design and…
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