7th Building Futures Class To Graduate Monday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Fifteen graduates will take the stage next Monday as the Building Futures Project pre-apprenticeship training program hosts a graduation to honor the accomplishments of it's seventh graduating class. Each graduate will be awarded certificate of completion, which includes OSHA 10 and CPR First Aid certifications as well as six weeks of course work in blueprint reading, construction math, and introduction to the building trades. The classes have also visited construction projects like the St. Elizabeth's West Campus Redevelopment Project and the Dulles Metro Rail Extension to help them be competitive applicants for ongoing local work. "Building Futures continues to create outstanding opportunities for it's graduates through high quality pre- apprenticeship training," says Yvette De La Cruz, a training consultant on the project. Thus far, 121 Building Futures participants have obtained employment as a result of the training. – Jenna Gold, Job Development Coordinator; photo by Sylvia Casaro Dietert