What is Future Build?
Future Build is a partnership of the Pittsburg Power Company, Contra Costa Workforce Development Board, Pittsburg Adult Education Center, Contra Costa Building and Construction Trades council, Morris Carey of “On the House”, Northern California Laborers Training, and Open Opportunities Inc. a 501c3 Non-Profit to provide at least 40 East County young adults annually, with 16+ weeks of pre-apprenticeship training in the building trades, solar theory and installation, construction, and hazardous waste.
Project Future Build
Future Build’s managing partner is the Pittsburg Power Company. Open Opportunities Inc. provides case management and day to day program supervision. The Pittsburg Adult Education Center provides the academic instruction and lab site.
Future Build provides a “life changing experience” for the trainees that leads to re-engagement in the workforce and post-secondary education opportunities. Pre-apprenticeship training (classroom and laboratory) are married to practical applications in the field.
The practical applications can also be referred to as “community benefit projects”. Community benefit projects are where the trainees exercise what they have learned in the classroom an lab by improving facilities in public housing projects, rehabilitation of homes for low income residents, schools, and public recreational facilities such as parks.
Curriculum
There is an undeniable need to provide vocational training, guidance and community building to a population that needs to work and is not currently prepared to.
The core curriculum developed by the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO (BLTO, AFL-CIO) is known as the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3). The core curriculum is supplemented by Skill Units develop by the Home Builder’s Institute (HBI); MC3 and HBI are both recognized by the US Department of Labor. Successful completion of the curriculum leads to a pre apprentice certificate. Additionally, Future Build adds the approved units to the curriculum so graduates will qualify for HBI’s Green Building Certificate. This is a specialized certificate for training in sustainable energy technologies and materials. The core curriculum will be supplemented by skill specific instruction in solar theory and construction.
Future Build follows the 75/25 approach for instruction. That is the student is engaged in “hands-on” learning 75% of the time. Twenty-five (25%) of the student’s time is in lecture, group discussion or workbook exercises. Future Build maintains a Skill Achievement Record (SAR) to document a student’s competency for the various instructional units.
CERTIFICATIONS
Successful graduates will receive the following certificates
Hazwoper 40
Photovoltaics (Solar)
OSHA 10, CPR/1st Aid,
Confined Spaces, Traffic Control
Building and Construction
Training Department AFL/CIO’s
Multi Craft Core Curriculum
Home Builder’s Institute
“Construction Technology”
w/ National Green Building Standard
Refinery Safety Orientation
TWIC
All Terrain Forklift
SUPPORTERS
CCC Workforce Development Board
CCC District V Supervisor Federal D. Glover
Pittsburg Power Company
City of Pittsburg
Morris Carey of “On the House”
Pittsburg Adult Education Center
Contra Costa Building Building Trades Council
Northern California Laborers Training Center
Environmental Protection Agency
Y&H Soda Foundation
Open Opportunities, Inc. a 501c3 Non-Profit
Calpine
GenOn Energy Services, LLC
Keller Canyon Mitigation Funds
Community Development Block Grant:
City of Antioch
City of Pittsburg
Contra Costa County
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Contra Costa County Career Centers
Los Medanos & Diablo Valley College
Steamfitters & Plumbers Local 342
Home Depot Pittsburg & Good 360 Program
Trades Women Inc.
SparkPoint, STS Academy, Work World
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