Local partnership initiative launches program to create rural remote jobs

Spokane – The Washington Rural Initiative, a partnership between the Washington State University Extension and the AWB Institute with support from Avista and STCU, is a specialized training program designed to help rural residents build skills needed to become effective remote workers, as employees, entrepreneurs or freelancers.

The next class of students from Spokane, Whitman and Lincoln counties is enrolling now, and the program will start Jan. 4. The deadline for registration is December 29.

“The pandemic has demonstrated very clearly that not all work must be done from a centralized office...