About This Training Program
This FREE Training Program is valued at $7,000 per participant!
- Training begins early to mid Spring.
- Classes follow the Statewide School Calendar for vacations and holidays
- Location: 555 Moshassuck Valley Industrial Highway, Central Falls, RI 02860 (enter 2 Crow Point Rd, Lincoln, RI 02865 in GPS and our facility is across the street from Fortune Metals. The Moshassuck Valley address doesn’t show up on GPS properly.)
- Time: Always from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
- Days: TBD
- This program is designed to give English Language Learner students the entry level skills to be employed in this remarkable, fast growing field where employees are in high demand.
(*) These training programs are for residential construction, hours obtained do not count towards registered apprenticeship hours.
BCTELL
The BCTELL program is a basic carpentry career training program for participants who demonstrate intermediate English Knowledge and is designed to prepare job seekers looking for a career in residential construction or upskill current construction workers. With an emphasis on contextualized English as a Second Language Training.
The Home Builders Institute (HBI) PACT Program is a pre-apprentice career training program curriculum designed to prepare job seekers looking for a career in residential construction or upskill current construction workers in carpentry. PACT is based on HBI’s National Construction Skill Standards and NAHB’s National Green Building Standards™. PACT’s skill achievement records, set by subject matter experts, ensures every participant has the knowledge they must master to be employed in an entry-level or semi-skilled job within the residential construction industry and has a job placement rate of over 80 percent for HBI PACT graduates.
Participants are trained by HBI Certified Instructors and receive upon successful completion:
- Hands-on training
- Contextualized English Training
- Construction Terminology and Math for Construction
- OSHA 10 Construction training and card
- Initial 8-hour Lead Safe Renovate Repair and Painting Rule training certificate
- HBI Pre-Apprentice Carpentry certificate
- First Aid, AED and CPR training and certificate
- Soft Skills
- Employability
- Team Building
- Professionalism and Success in the workplace training
- Manufacturer Boot Camps for expert installation training, techniques & tips
- Financial Empowerment
Learn more about the HBI Curriculum and Wage Data
Each participant receives a basic set of trade tools to use during training. Participant is allowed to keep those tools if they secured employment at the time of graduation.
Requirements
Job Seekers: Career Changers and those seriously interested in pursuing a Career in Construction.
- At least Intermediate level of English
- No age requirement, just needs to be done or out of high school
- High school or GED is not required
- If an Immigrant, must have work authorization #
Employers: Upskill your current employees or sponsor a candidate you’d like to hire with a commitment of a wage increase or a job during or upon training completion.
Applicants MUST be SERIOUS, MOTIVATED, and COMMITTED to start a full-time career in this field or obtain the skills necessary to advance with their current employer. Unemployed or underemployed applicants must make a commitment to seek employment at RCWPJobs.com, our placement resources and other resources student will find on their own.