Statistical Contact Report for FY2025Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025

332486

Total Hours

Contributed.

1596996

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

3426

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

120588

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

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Transportation Industry Professionals to Develop Cross Training Programs for Youth

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has a high percentage of an aging workforce for skilled positions. According to the 2022 Semi-Annual Report on Female and Minority Employment, 95.14% of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Personnel was a white verses 4.86% being minority. As a pre-requisite to prepare more minorities for careers in the transportation industry, a 2-week residential camp is funded annually by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Federal Highway Administration to encourage minori...

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Transportation Industry Professionals to Develop Cross Training Programs for Youth

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Savannah Columbia

Extension Associate

Savannah
Savannah is a University of Kentucky Alumna with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Economics and a minor in Sustainable Agriculture. She has worked as an Agricultural Extension Associate in th... More

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