Challenges & Commitments
Residential Construction Industry Challenges and IRCE Commitments:
Problems facing construction industry employers in their increased need for skilled workers are:
- The industry has difficulty recruiting youth
- Many youth interested in construction lack the skills employers need
- Some entry-level workers lack the basic technical skills needed to advance in the industry.
Idaho Residential Construction Education (IRCE) is creating a systematic approach to construction industry workforce development that provides:
- A continuum of recruitment
- Career exploration
- Education
- Training
IRCE is committed to:
- Form an Advisory Board including representatives from
- Building Contractors Association of the Wood River Valley
- Magic Valley Builders Association
- College of Southern Idaho
- Blaine County School District
- Regional Workforce Development Board
- local employers
- Serve a minimum of 250 individuals including
- high school students
- community college students
- dislocated workers
- incumbent workers
- Offer training in crafts such as
- carpentry
- electrical wiring
- plumbing
- heating and air conditioning
- Develop an associates degree or equivalent credential that incorporates the skills needed in residential construction
- Promote use of RCA curriculum (industry approved curricula and related educational programming) to the fullest extent possible
- Form a National Association of Home Builders Student Chapter by April 2006
- Provide $119,808 matching “In-Kind” by partners by November 30th, 2007
- Participate in the continuous evaluation of the project through November 2007
- Be accountable for
- student recruitment
- curriculum development
- articulation between secondary and post secondary residential construction programs
- Develop a sustainable resource for the IRCE Coordinator's position
- Disseminate the products and lesson plans of the project to
- high schools
- community colleges
- public and private vocational training centers for state and national replication