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Builders Spread the Word About Home Building Careers
The Home Builders Institute (HBI) and Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide™ are working in partnership to spread the word among the nation’s high school students about the wide range of home building careers open to them in the residential construction industry.
Combining their areas of expertise, HBI has merged its industry-specific career awareness supplement, “Business Ventures in the Residential Construction Industry” with JA’s “Success Skills” work readiness program, and home builders associations are providing volunteers to meet with the more than seven million K-12 students in JA’s extensive classroom network.
 “Our partnership with JA Hawaii has been a win-win experience,” said Karen Nakamura, executive director of the Building Industry Association of Hawaii. “JA Hawaii provided a syllabus with detailed criteria that maximized the effectiveness of our members when they presented their personal experiences in housing. We are grateful for the opportunity to share our industry with students.”
Currently, a total of 10 HBAs from Connecticut to Hawaii are taking advantage of the JA partnership and providing member volunteers to speak with students about the industry’s employment opportunities.
“The volunteers we’ve received have been enthusiastic, eager and excellent speakers,” said M. Steven Grant, president of Junior Achievement of Hawaii. “They are wonderful mentors and role models for Junior Achievement in our local schools. The BIA of Hawaii is such a well-run, organized and efficient association, we couldn’t ask for a better partner.”
For more information on the partnership or career services activities, e-mail Deanna Lewis at HBI, or call her at 800-795-7955 x 8927.
Home Builders Institute Offers New Program to Teach Hispanic Adults English
 Sed de Saber™-Construction Edition is an easy-to-use, take-home learning tool created exclusively for the construction industry by the Home Builders Institute to improve communication, quality and safety on the job site.
The product, now available at www.seddesaberconstruction.com, uses proven LeapFrog technology to allow workers to listen, record and play back their pronunciation of more than 500 vocabulary words and 340 phrases. Participants who practice 30 minutes each day will complete the program in just four months. Learning at home, on their own time, also eliminates scheduling conflicts.
 Sed de Saber™-Construction Edition was developed by a team of subject matter experts assembled through HBI — including superintendents, craft skills experts, remodelers and builders — to ensure that the information is relevant to today’s home building workforce. To address worker safety issues related to the language barrier, HBI created a seventh book based entirely on the NAHB-OSHA Job Site Safety Handbook.
NAHB members can purchase the learning system, all seven books and a skills assessment to chart employee progress for $395 per kit. The non-member price is $495. Order today and empower your workers to learn English at www.seddesaberconstruction.com.
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