A statewide building boom that includes Central Valley solar farms is powering demand for skilled construction workers and training programs like the one recently toured by Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.
California’s high-profile solar industry is helping to drive development of a new lesson for ValleyBuild’s apprenticeship readiness training program in Fresno.
A new and successful partnership in San Joaquin County is bringing the ValleyBuild program into the jail, where nearly 20 inmates have completed the introductory training in building and construction trades.
Rural Fresno County residents may find an easier path to ValleyBuild training thanks to a variety of supportive services along with a new transportation option in Biola.
Even with two and sometimes three jobs, Nidia Chicas struggled to help support her family.
Nidia had to tell her seven children “no” more times than she liked. She worried about making rent and hated to miss time with her family due to work or exhaustion.
Twenty-one men and women are on the path to living-wage careers in the building and construction trades after completing apprenticeship readiness training in Stockton.
Fifteen students have been honored as the second graduating class in the Fresno-based ValleyBuild NOW training program that prepares women for good-paying careers in the building and construction trades.
The Fresno-based program that is bringing more women into construction and building trades has an enthusiastic supporter in Tim Rainey, executive director of the California Workforce Development Board.
Like many other ValleyBuild students, Rick Jones just needed an opportunity to create a better life.
