Aspiring Mortician Sets To Work | New Haven Independent
Federal stimulus dollars were put to use this week at Howard K. Hill Funeral Home, where Akayla McKinnie learned to adorn a casket with a gold name plate.
Akayla (at left in photo), who’s 14, was one of 60 teens who started work this week as part of a job training program run by the Community Action Agency (CAA). The program, Manage Your Future, was one of several initiatives paid for by $1.5 million in federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
CAA has also received another half-million dollars in stimulus money to coordinate an eight-week employment program this summer for 169 teens and 40 adults, the agency announced this week.
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