Building Maintenance

Building Futures offers low-income and under-employed residents of Providence opportunities to enter the construction trades through apprenticeships. Building Futures enrolled and placed its first cohort of participants in June 2007; the first year’s goal is to place 30 apprentices.

The Jumpstart Pre-Apprenticeship Program provides low-income community residents sponsored by specific employers with an 87-hour, pre-apprenticeship course for electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

The Building Services Industry Career Path Project helps lower-skilled workers and recent immigrants enter the building services industry and expand opportunities for working janitorial staff. Since early 2005, some 200 incumbent workers have received training and participating employers have addressed the need to clarify career paths and human resource practices in building maintenance.

The Northern Tier Workforce Investment Board will reach a cross-section of industry clusters by focusing on the employment activity of industrial maintenance workers.

Several key project goals and objectives, which are yet to be established by the Industrial Maintenance Partnership, will include, but are not limited to: