Build Nevada, a program funded by the Associated General Contractors, local labor unions and Nevada Partners to ”grow our own” within the southern Nevada’s construction industry, graduated its first two dozen students on September 3, 2008.
The average age of the graduates is 25. The students learned skills that teach not only how to perform construction jobs in Nevada, but also the work habits and life skills to help them secure and keep a job after getting one. They also learned leadership, time management, accountability, technical and electrical mathematics, safety training, lift equipment training, first aid and CPR, avoiding sexual harassment and discrimination, tool use and material handling. Graduates will be fast tracked into apprenticeship programs.
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