AFL-CIO APPALACHIAN COUNCIL

For over fifty years, the Appalachian Council, Inc. has provided education, training and a wide range of human resource development programs throughout the region. Our programs have included comprehensive child development, career transition/placement, vocational training, and employee assistance programs. The Council began as an outgrowth of a meeting of the Appalachian Trade Union Conference, held in Charleston, West Virginia, in October 1964. The twelve chief executive officers of the state AFL-CIO organizations in the area of greater Appalachia (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland-DC, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia) joined together to form a non-profit corporation to work toward unearthing and understanding the employment and training problems of the region, develop plans for their solution, and to stimulate or undertake specific projects or action programs for their resolve and/or elimination. Effort...