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Builders to Train Dallas Youths in Construction Trades

Adjudicated youths at the Dallas County Youth Village outside Dallas will receive construction trades training and job placement assistance under a contract recently awarded to the Home Builders Institute (HBI), the workforce development arm of NAHB, by WorkSource for Dallas County.

HBI will be implementing its award-winning Project CRAFT program (Community Apprenticeship-Focused Training) to train some 40 youths, ages 16-19, at the Dallas facility over the next year.

Project CRAFT improves educational levels, teaches vocational skills, places graduates in industry jobs and reduces recidivism among adjudicated youths.

HBI will be partnering with SER — Jobs for Progress, a Dallas-based non-profit that promotes the development of the nation’s Hispanic workforce. SER will provide employability skills training, case management and some job placement support.

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“We are so happy to have Project CRAFT in Dallas — it’s about time,” said Patsy Smith president of Herman Smith and Company and a member of HBI’s Board of Trustees.

“This program has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Justice as one that really works,” said Smith. “Project CRAFT helps some of the hardest-to-serve young people restart their lives, and they do so in an industry that needs qualified people.”

HBI’s Project CRAFT programs are currently operating in New Jersey, Tennessee and Florida.

For more information on Project CRAFT, e-mail John Hattery at HBI, or call him at 800-795-7955 x8916.

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