Stillmeadow Community Projects Inc

Baltimore City Office of Sustainability Grant - Baltimore City Office of Sustainability has deemed our Resiliency Hub to be the Gold Star Standard. Thus, they often share the Stillmeadow story as a model to other institutions and cities looking to participate in or start resiliency hub programs. Officials from the American Red Cross and Admiral Levine, the Assistant Secretary of Health in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, and leaders of other resiliency hubs from around the country have visited and toured Stillmeadow. Through our Resiliency Hub, we hosted: oCode Red Days Cooling Station Water Distribution at bus stop oFlood Mitigation 3 Sand Distributions oSalt Box available to residents for inclement weather oMulch for tree planting And, we participated in the following trainings: oCERT, CPR & First Aid Training 20 people trained oOpioid Drug Training 5 people trained oUTV Training 6 people trained oActive Shooter Training 2 people trained Hosted Computer Foundations I and Computer Foundations II courses in partnership with Byte Back. 7 people learned and/or expanded their digital literacy skills. 54 people obtained livable-wage jobs through Turnaround Tuesday in 2023! To date, the Stillmeadow Turnaround Tuesday site has made 89 job placements. 1,816 volunteer hours logged in 2023

UDel SF-42A To promote workforce development. To hire forest technicians, who will plant and care for trees involved in the Forest Service research project. Also, Stillmeadow conducted forest management training for five trainees. The job training program included vegetation identification, soil sampling, field inventories and analysis, GPS sampling and mapping, tree care, removal of invasive plants, and chainsaw use. The 5 trainees graduated from the 8-week program. 3 of them have, now, obtained full-time employment with benefits with Baltimore Tree Trust, 1 in college at Frostburg University, and the other has obtained full-time employment at Ascension St. Agnes.