{"id":2191,"date":"2022-01-13T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/career\/community-build-inc-combats-the-speed-of-covid-19-in-the-workplace-while-creating-jobs\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:15:00","slug":"community-build-inc-combats-the-speed-of-covid-19-in-the-workplace-while-creating-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/career\/community-build-inc-combats-the-speed-of-covid-19-in-the-workplace-while-creating-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Build, Inc. combats the speed of COVID-19 in the workplace while creating jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The South Los Angeles non-profit organization partners with Coastal Health to train health workers to retrofit the workplace environment.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Support_Standard_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The L.A. 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Donations can be made through Cash App <a href=\"https:\/\/cash.app\/$LAStandard\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cash.app\/$LAStandard<\/a>, Venmo https:\/\/venmo.com @LA-Standard-Newspaper, PayPal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/lastandardnewspaper\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/lastandardnewspaper<\/a>, and GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>&nbsp;<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2190\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coastal_Health_USA__3_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coastal_Health_USA__3_web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Coastal_Health_USA__3_web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Community Build, Inc. Community Health Workers are trained to assess a business&rsquo; overall hygiene and cleaning protocol and develop an action plan to retrofit the workplace environment. Photos by Ian Foxx<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>&nbsp;<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Community Build, Inc. is taking the lead in workplace safety in light of the uptick in COVID-19 cases and the new Omicron variant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Community Build, Inc. and San Diego-based Coastal Health USA have partnered to create a social enterprise company that will assess, implement and maintain an infection controlled workplace environment using EPA &amp; FDA regulated solutions for clinical, commercial, and public environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&ldquo;This collaboration is a great model for public-private partnerships,&rdquo; said Robert Sausedo, Community Build, Inc. president.&nbsp; &ldquo;Through this social enterprise, we are able to provide high-paying jobs for individuals that have had challenges with long-term unemployment while helping employers provide a safe work environment for employees who may be hesitant about returning to the work place.&nbsp; This is all made possible by Mayor Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Coastal Health USA will train Community Build, Inc. Community Health Workers to assess a business&rsquo; overall hygiene and cleaning protocol and develop an action plan to retrofit the workplace environment. &nbsp;Based on the assessment, UVC disinfections and antimicrobial protection will be applied on high-touch surfaces and highly trafficked areas. An infection control plan will be developed to enable a business&rsquo; janitorial staff to maintain a safe environment.&nbsp; The Community Health Workers will monitor the workplace regularly to ensure levels of infectious bacteria remain low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Coastal Health USA&rsquo;s intensive training program consists of modules on the various products used for disinfection,&nbsp;differentiation between cleaning and hospital-grade disinfection, installation of microbial protectants on surfaces and testing for microorganisms.&nbsp; Upon completion of each module, Community Health Workers will receive a certificate of completion, furthering their skills for future job opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Facilities that have undergone the disinfection process and tested for infectious microbacteria will receive a seal of certification that can be displayed on the front door and throughout the facility.&nbsp; The seal contains a code that can be scanned with a mobile device and the facility&rsquo;s infection safety protocol can be reviewed. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Community Build, Inc&rsquo;s Community Health Workers program is funded by a grant from the City of Los Angeles to provide job skills for individuals with long-term unemployment.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&ldquo;This partnership is the perfect trifecta &#8211; Community Build, Coastal Health and the City of Los Angeles &ndash; teaming together to battle this pandemic and make it safe to return to the workplace,&rdquo; said Jack Corrao, managing partner, Costal Health USA. &ldquo;We also have the privilege of providing much needed job training in a community hit hard by the pandemic.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The first cohort of Community Build, Inc. Community Health Workers completed the infection control classroom training and on the job training at Community Builds Inc.&rsquo;s corporate offices in late December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For more information, contact Community Build, Inc. at (323) 290-6560 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitybuildinc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.communitybuildinc.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The South Los Angeles non-profit organization partners with Coastal Health to train health workers to retrofit the workplace environment.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[169,170,93,168,428,2200,1963,167,1590,161,218,571,156,157,75,135,163,162,102,158,160,159],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","tag-african-american","tag-african-american-newspaper","tag-baldwin-hills","tag-black-newspaper","tag-career","tag-coastal-health","tag-community-build","tag-community-newspaper","tag-covid","tag-crenshaw","tag-inglewood","tag-jobs","tag-ladera-heights","tag-leimert-park","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-standard-newspaper","tag-mid-city","tag-park-mesa-heights","tag-south-los-angeles","tag-view-park","tag-west-adams","tag-windsor-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}