What’s the connection between our workforce development programs and Blue Note Junction?
Watch this video to take a tour of Blue Note Junction!
After watching the video, are you as excited as we are? Now, let us explain to you what the connection is between Blue Note Junction and our workforce development programs:
✔ Hood Huggers Foundation’s coordinated system of workforce development programs supports youth and young adults at different stages of readiness. Each program blends hands-on learning, leadership development, community engagement, and individualized wraparound support, creating a continuum of growth from first steps into employment to long-term civic leadership.
✔ Blue Note Junction is the long-term, place-based expression of our mission. It’s a mixed-use community development project that will include affordable housing, commercial space for local entrepreneurs, wellness + climate resiliency functions, and cultural gathering space.
✔ Youth in our programs will apply what they learn by helping build and activate Blue Note Junction, linking training to real community infrastructure and long-term economic stability.
As our co-founder DeWayne Burton puts it more poetically:
“Blue Note Junction is the top of the flower. The peace garden is the root; it’s how we started, it’s the dirt, but Blue Note Junction is the flower that everybody will see. That flower will provide a lot of different opportunities for not only the community that lives here, but also for travelers and tourists alike.”
In this video, he explains the vision:
