About This Training Program
This FREE Training Program is valued at $7,000 per participant!
- Training begins mid-December
- Classes follow the Statewide School Calendar for vacations and holidays
- Location: RCWP 599 Arnold Road, Coventry, RI 02816
- Time: Always from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
- Days: TBD
- This program is designed to give 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.
Plaster and Drywall
At the turn of the 20th century, plaster was the most popular interior
wall covering in North America, and it remained so for the next several decades. But things have changed since then. Drywall, first introduced in 1916 by United States Gypsum (USG), has largely replaced plaster. Most of the dwindling number of homes with plaster walls were built before 1940.
The benefits of drywall, including its lower cost, ease of installation and resilience, were finally recognized by the home trades during the war years and the post-war home boom. Today, plastering is a specialty trade, and it can be difficult to find skilled workers. Though creating plaster walls requires more skill, it has some definite advantages over drywall.
The Sheetrock and Drywall Finish & Repair Training Program
Will prepare students for entry-level careers in this remarkable, fast growing field. Students will learn the tools and materials of the trade, how to install sheetrock and drywall, plaster, finish, patch & repair interior walls and ceilings from an expert in the field while working hands-on in a real-world setting.
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 experienced craftspeople – HBI Certified Instructors and receive upon successful completion:
- Hands-on 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.