Teamwork in Training - Home Builders Institute

TEAMWORK
in Training
Special “Make A Difference Day” Issue
Fall 2003
Red Rock Job Corps Students Aim High to Help Local “Y”
James Buck, Fanchon Davis and Mario Outin assemble the scaffold that will hold them while they repair an
exhaust pipe at the Pittston (PA) YMCA. Plumbing instructor Paul Drake and his crew had to first erect the
structure to reach the top of the building in order to make the repairs.
(Make a Difference Day coverage begins on page 4)
From the Chairman
When I became chairman of
HBI’s Board of Trustees in
January, I had high hopes for
what we would accomplish in
our Job Corps programs during
my tenure. My fellow trustees
and HBI staff helped put those
hopes into practical applications, ultimately surpassing my
expectations.
It all began the week I became chairman at the
International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, when two
HBI Job Corps electrical graduates, Brandon Powell
and Leanna Clark were recognized by more than
2,500 members of the NAHB Board of Directors for
their hard work and success in the industry. This
happy occasion signaled a year of many such ‘highs’
for HBI’s Job Corps programs.
More than anything, this was the year HBI programs partnered like never before to help our Job
Corps students succeed. For example, HBI’s
Residential Construction Academy Series materials
were adapted into training pilots launched on five Job
Corps centers. The success of this effort will help
ensure that all future HBI carpentry students in Job
Corps learn using the NAHB member-prescribed standards found in these state-of-the-art materials.
I will continue to work with my colleagues on the
Board and HBI staff to see that what we started this
banner year in Job Corps continues to prosper and
grow for the benefit of our students, our members and
the nation’s housing industry.
Sincerely,
Thomas E. Mullen
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Home Builders Institute
HBI B.I.N.
(Building Industry Networks)
At the 2003 Remodelors Show in Baltimore,
Maryland, more than 300 remodelors expressed interest
in hiring an HBI Job Corps graduate. HBI staff hosted
a Job Corps booth at the show to spread awareness of
HBI programs among NAHB member remodelors.
Visitors to the booth had the opportunity to learn more
about hiring HBI Job Corps graduates and participate in
a drawing for a Bosch cordless drill. Congratulations
to this year’s winner builder/remodelor Robert
Wadden of Wadden Homes in Alexandria, Virginia.
The NAHB Student Chapters and HBI Job Corps
programs launched a pilot of their own in the form of
membership in NAHB for the students at the Westover
Job Corps Center. Sponsored by the HBA of Western
Massachusetts, this new chapter will give HBI Job
Corps trainees even more exposure to the industry
through the benefits of student membership in NAHB.
I am very happy to see that during my tenure as
chairman, HBI recognized its first woman as
Instructor of the Year, Gretchen Cantali, a carpentry
instructor at the Cassadaga Job Corps Center. This
event illustrated that excellence has no glass ceiling -and neither does HBI.
Wadden receives his prize from HBI students Veronica Dixon and Edgar Lemus. Both are
enrolled in Gary Shavlik’s facilities maintenance class at the Potomac Job Corps Center.
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Teamwork in Training
HBI
Teamwork in Training is published by Home Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of the National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB). It is designed to provide Job Corps training professionals, members of the building industry and others, with
information on HBI’s Job Corps programs.
Thomas E. Mullen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Frederick N. Humphreys, President and CEO
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HBI Job Corps Students Benefit from NAHB Membership
Thanks to sponsorship by the
Home Builders Association of
Western Massachusetts, students
enrolled in HBI training at the
Westover Job Corps Center in
Chicopee, Massachusetts, will
receive full membership in the
National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB). Westover is the
first NAHB Student Chapter
formed on a Job Corps campus,
where HBI currently provides
training in plumbing, electrical and
facilities maintenance.
Celebrating the Westover Job Corps Center’s new
NAHB Student Chapter at the HBA of Western Mass.
headquarters in Springfield. Front row: the HBA’s
Second Vice President Kent Pecoy, HBI Trustee Steve
Nellis, and Westover Job Corps Center Director Wayne
Tapp, pose with HBI students during the event.
NTC
News
Hits the
On September 19, this new partnership between HBI, Westover
Job Corps and the HBA was celebrated at a ceremony at the HBA’s
headquarters in Springfield.
Representatives from the HBA
of Western Massachusetts, Second
Vice President Kent Pecoy and
Executive
Director
Brad
Campbell, welcomed supporters
and recognized the efforts of HBI’s
programs and Westover Job Corps
Center Director Wayne Tapp in
helping to advance the partnership
over the years.
Steve Nellis, HBI Trustee and
NAHB Student Chapter Advisory
Board member, cited the importance of incorporating students
into the NAHB membership,
“Through this program, students
are given first-hand exposure to
the building industry as a complement to their training.”
NAHB Past-President and HBI
Trustee, Don Martin, NAHB
Student Chapter Advisory Board
Chairman, Jim Gronski and State
Senator Brian Lees also stopped by
the event. Senator John F. Kerry
and Representative John Olver
sent letters congratulating the partnership.
Plans are to offer the benefits of
NAHB membership to other HBI
Job Corps students through a
gradual expansion of Chapters to
other centers.
Kerry Sicard and her culinary students’ expertise
brought a special touch to the celebration at the
HBA’s headquarters.
Web
HBI Job Corps news has found a second home in the
Job Corps National Training Contractors Newsletter
(NTC News). This new online publication allows all
Job Corps National
Training Contractors
(NTCs) to deliver the
latest news on their
organizations’ Job
Corps programs.
The magazine-style
publication features articles on program news, trade
news and student success stories from Job Corps campuses across the nation. Submitted online and edited by
Prestige, Inc., an Internet technology contractor, the
publication went live this summer. Thanks to innovative
software provided by Prestige, NTCs can manage content, and upload articles with only the click of a few buttons on the keyboard.
HBI has been publishing articles since the newsletter’s
debut. HBI’s most
recent submission,
“HBI Job Corps
Students Work to
Make a Difference,”
featured
student
contributions on this
year’s “Make a Difference Day.” A print version of NTC
News is published twice a year featuring excerpts of the
online version.
For all the latest news on HBI Job Corps programs be
sure and check out NTC News at www.ntcnews.org.■
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Make A Difference Day 2003
“Make a Difference Day” is a
national day of volunteer community service created by USA
Weekend Magazine. The event
encourages people of all ages to
volunteer the fourth Saturday of
October to causes that support
their communities. Each year an
estimated two million people participate in the event, including HBI
instructors and their students on
Job Corps campuses from Alaska
to Maine. Speaking of Alaska…
Alaska Job Corps Center
Palmer, Alaska
Tim Swan, facilities maintenance
instructor, led his class in the construction of a hiking trail alongside
a mountain at Arctic Valley. Layers
of tundra had to be removed and
backfilled with gravel. Only hand
tools and wheel barrels were used
to complete the job!
Albuquerque Job Corps Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
HBI facilities maintenance and
plumbing students partnered with
the City of Albuquerque Senior
Affairs Department. The students
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helped repair and winterize the
homes of many of the area’s elderly and low-income families.
fencing as part of a restoration
project of the Gillespie Farm at
Ebey’s
Landing
National
Historical Reserve.
Cascades Job Corps Center
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
A little on Ebey’s Landing
National Historical Reserve…
Ebey’s Landing is a living record of
Pacific Northwest history, including the first exploration of Puget
Sound by Captain George
Vancouver in 1792 and the continued growth and settlement of the
town of Coupeville. The historical
landscape of the reserve appears to
today’s visitors much as it did a
century ago, where historic farms
such as the Gillespie Farm, are still
farmed, forests harvested and century-old buildings used as homes
or places of business.
Grady Baker’s FM students take a break on Make A
Difference Day at the Gillespie Farm.
Facilities maintenance students
in Grady Baker’s class removed
Cassadaga Job Corps Center
Cassadaga, New York
HBI students in Cassadaga
provided much needed assistance to the AMVETS Post
1996 after a recent fire
destroyed
their
building.
President of the AMVETS Post,
Jerry Johnson called HBI for
help in rebuilding the facility.
HBI “Instructor of the Year”
Gretchen Cantali led a group of
carpentry students putting
down 120 sq. ft. of new roofing
shingles. Dan Nalepa’s painting
class was under roof, and are
pictured putting up drywall in
the banquet room and offices.
Make A Difference Day 2003
Curlew Job Corps Center
Curlew, Washington
Golconda Job Corps Center
Golconda, Illinois
James Moore, facilities maintenance instructor and his students
have been working in their community and their efforts were highlighted in a recent issue of the
Republic News-Miner. Among the
projects were roof repairs on the
Ansorge Hotel and the renovation
of the Curlew Civic Hall where the
students practiced several of the
skills facilities maintenance technicians use - plumbing, electrical,
painting and flooring.
Nine HBI electrical students and
their instructor John Gaddis lent a
hand to the Royalton Civic Pride’s
Haunted Hayride. The students
built concession stands and an
entrance to this annual Halloween
attraction. After their work was
done and the sun had set the students enjoyed a ride on the hay
wagon.
Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center
Tucson, Arizona
Grafton Job Corps Center
North Grafton, Massachusetts
Flores and his students during the Boys and Girls Club renovation.
Olex Corrigan is making a difference replacing
bleacher treads.
Patrick Fullen and ten plumbing
students spent over a week ‘making a big difference’ refurbishing
the gym at the Sacred Heart Parish
in nearby Worcester. Not only did
they refinish the entire floor, they
repaired the bleachers, replacing
the broken treads, snaked drains in
all the showers and replaced several faucets.
HBI facilities maintenance instructor Mike Flores sent in a write-up on
the efforts of the HBI team in Tucson… “Students enrolled in HBI facilities maintenance, electrical wiring, and plumbing trades teamed up to
make a difference in Tucson. The task at hand was refurbishing a dilapidated Boys and Girls Club building, abandoned for several years. The
refurbished structure will be used as a Youth Works! headquarters serving
the youth leadership of the local community.
The FM crew got busy installing new windows, replacing the sub flooring, hanging new sheet rock, and working on painting and replacing the
exterior doors. Gus Esquivel and his plumbing students had the job of
bringing potable water to the building. They installed the main water line,
outside water bibs, and put in the hardware for a new restroom. The job
of providing electricity was up to Gerard Ortiz’s electrical wiring crew.
They installed an electrical service panel, circuit breakers, outlets and light
switches.
The HBI crew gave back with sweat equity on “Make a Difference Day.”
Youth Works reciprocated their efforts with a (to die for) smorgasborad
luncheon followed by a door prize raffle. Facilities maintenance student
Doncia Bickford walked away with a fifty-dollar gift certificate. Movie
passes were handed out left and right, but the true satisfaction shared by
the students was that they did it and have the “Make a Difference Day”
t-shirt to prove it!”
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Job Corps Center
St. Paul, Minnesota
Picnic tables were built and
repaired, a dividing wall was constructed and lights in three common rooms were relamped at the
Rueben Lindh Family Services
building. All done by HBI facilities
maintenance instructor Roger
Stewart and his 12 students on
“Make a Difference Day”.
North Texas Job Corps Center
McKinney, Texas
refinish table tops, clean the
grounds and landscape. Talk about
making a difference!
Penobscot Job Corps Center
Penobscot, Maine
Henderson monitors Joshua Thomas using the skillsaw
at the Texoma Christian Camp.
Hawaii Job Corps Center
Waimanalo, Hawaii
Rick Oberlin, plumbing instructor and James Henderson, facilities maintenance took their
students to the Texoma
Christian Camp to repair
plumbing, paint cabins,
Mark Martin’s carpentry students joined their welding
counterparts braved the cold waters of Chemo Pond to
remove a floating dock system consisting of 16 separate units weighing approximately 600 pounds each at
Camp Molly Molasses.
Red Rock Job Corps Center
Lopez, Pennsylvania
The Hawaii Job Corps FM crew poses at the Waimanalo Beach Park
with Diamond Head in the background.
Ed Onishi and his facilities maintenance
students spent their “Make a Difference Day”
at the Waimanalo Beach Park. In a partnership
with the City & County of Honolulu the students cleaned the grounds and painted over grafPaul Drake’s plumbing students Mario Outin and Fanchon
fiti on the park’s facilities. Joining the efforts was
Davis help unload the scaffold at the Pittston YMCA, which
Hawaii State Representative Tommy Waters who
once complete reached a height of 50 feet. Inside HBI
helped the crew complete the project. TV reporter
instructor Gary Wanyo and his painting crew were making
Tanya Boyd of KHON-TV 2 visited the worksite and
a big difference painting. Meanwhile, instructor Joe
reported on their day’s contributions to the community.
Entiero and the masonry students were patching and
The story aired later on the nightly news!
repainting the sidewalk and stairs of the Sullivan
County Courthouse.
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Roswell Job Corps Center
Roswell, New Mexico
San Diego Job Corps Center
San Diego, California
Tongue Point Job Corps Center
Astoria, Oregon
Rufe Dunnahoo’s painting students have worked on their “Make
a Difference Day” contribution for
over a month and a half. Their
efforts have been directed at scraping, prepping and repainting one
fire hydrant after another for the
City of Roswell Fire Department.
The work is a partnership
between Boy Scouts of America,
Roswell Job Corps Center and
Roswell Youth Challenge that will
result in the repainting of over
3,000 fire hydrants in two Roswell
fire districts. Electrical students
and instructor Mike Kissell went
to Eastern New Mexico University
where they adjusted the light fixtures so taller vehicles could enter
the bays of the school’s auto shop.
Sacramento Job Corps Center
Sacramento, California
The Agency for Hearing, a nonprofit adopted by the Sacramento
Job Corps Center, will now have a
complete set of shadow boxes to
display hearing instruments used
throughout history. The boxes,
complete with glass fronts and
hung on the agency’s walls, were
Mike Kohlbacer’s carpentry students’ contribution for Make a
Difference Day.
San Diego Job Corps students are hard at work building a retaining wall at Chollas Lake City Park.
Randall Mann’s electrical and
Paul Chilson’s plumbing students
made a difference at the Chollas
Lake City Park by building a 31foot retaining wall out of lumber.
They also used only stone and
mortar to construct a headwater
dam that flows through the park.
Park officials said that plaques are
to be installed giving the students
and HBI credit for the work.
Joyce Capehart’s electrical and
Douglas West’s facilities maintenance students at the Tongue Point
Job Corps Center partnered with
the landscaping and cement classes
to construct a playground for the
Warrenton Grade School. The students’ efforts were a needed contribution, as the school had been
fundraising for the playground for
more than two years. The project
culminated with an official ribboncutting ceremony where the Job
Corps crew was greeted by loud
applause and speeches from the
grateful staff and students of the
Warrenton Grade School.
Woodstock Job Corps Center
Woodstock, Maryland
Landscaping students in Edwin Toth’s class
cleaned up the grounds of the African Union
Methodist Protestant Church in Granite,
Maryland. The church was built in 1887 and
was in use until 1972. Check out www.geocities.com/landscape9246/ for more HBI
landscaping happenings at woodstock!
(Turn to page 12 for more Make a Difference
Day coverage)
Anthony Docos takes a photo
break during the clean up.
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Center News
HBI Student at Academic Olympics
Woodland HBI Students Remodel
Recreation Area
Anna Rios, HBI facilities maintenance student at the North Texas Job
Corps Center in McKinney, was one of five students to represent the center at the Academic Olympics in San Antonio this October. The contest
included participants from 15 Job Corps Centers competing in five areas:
oratory, literature, social studies, science, and mathematics. Rios brought
her talents to the Oratory Competition by giving a speech on “How Job
Corps Changed My Life.” Her achievement was recognized in a feature
article of the McKinney Courier-Gazette. North Texas placed second in
the overall competition. Congratulations!
Tools and Tips of
the Trade
titled A Guide to HBI’s Career
Transition Services, and The Job
Trade Match Placement Guide to
assist staff providing CTS support.
What’s Happening with CTS
at HBI?
A Guide to HBI’s Career
Transition Services is a 16-minute
fully
automated
narrated
PowerPoint presentation. A simple
click on the CTS icon begins the
presentation and the software takes
care of everything else.
HBI recognizes that the success
of the Career Transition Services
(CTS) process hinges on its full
understanding by all involved. To
promote teamwork and understanding of this process, HBI produced a CD-ROM for students
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The Job Trade Match Placement
Guide provides a crosswalk of
"We took a 1940s style bathroom and made it into a 2000s
style bathroom,” said Aleta
Haynes, facilities maintenance
instructor. The students put in new
sinks, flooring, light fixtures, built
new walls and even textured the
ceilings at the Woodland Job
Corps Center’s recreational center.
O*Net, CIP and Placement Codes
used by HBI Job Corps programs.
It also offers information on selecting and assigning accurate
Placement Codes. HBI has received
great feedback on the usefulness of
these resources for new instructors
and other staff in Job Corps.
For copies or more information,
contact HBI Curriculum Specialist
Teri Peterson at 800/959-0052,
x8939.
(Turn to page 11 for more Tools and
Tips of the Trade)
Community Ties
HBI’s Atterbury Job Corps
Students Raise the Roof!
The entrance to the Covered
Bridge Road in Greenwood,
Indiana has a brand new structure
to go with its name thanks to some
real teamwork in training. HBI
students enrolled in facilities maintenance with instructors Roy
Grafton Students Clean Up
Local Park
Thirty-eight
HBI
students
accompanied by their instructors
from the Grafton Job Corps
Center in North Grafton, Mass.,
Sellers and Scott Forbes at the
Atterbury Job Corps Center in
Endinburg, Indiana built and
installed the famous local landmark this fall.
The new bridge replaced a 25year old structure much aged and
weathered. After two town meetings and a fundraising effort result-
partnered with the Friends of
Newton Hill, a community group,
to spruce up the Elm Park section
of a neighborhood recreational
area. The group collected trash and
cleared out overgrown vegetation
in the park. Reflecting on his
ing in $3,000 the neighborhood
was ready for the new bridge. That
is when HBI got the call for help.
The project took six weeks to complete and was the talk of the county. The new bridge and the HBI
student’s hard work was the feature of an article in The Daily
Journal, of Johnson County.
chance to give back to the community, HBI student Reginald Pierre
said, “I like giving back. People like
this, it shows that the world can
change.” Their efforts were covered in the local Worcester
Telegram & Gazette.
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More Community Ties
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“This is a wonderful partnership; Habitat provides real job
site experience, and they provide Habitat homes with a
professionally installed electrical system from start to finish.”
East Bay Habitat for Humanity
Summer 2003
Guthrie Students Help Local Police
HBI facilities maintenance students at the Guthrie
Job Corps Center in Oklahoma renovated a trailer for
the Logan and Payne County Drug Task Force. The
students spent six weeks building cabinets, closets,
holding racks, staining the wood, adding carpeting,
painting walls, and supplying minor plumbing to the
trailer. The Guthrie News Leader highlighted the students’ contribution of time and energy to their community in an article published in August.
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Treasure Island HBI Students Partner with Local
Habitat for Humanity
The HBI electrical program at the Treasure Island
Job Corps (TIJC) center in San Francisco, has partnered with the East Bay Habitat for Humanity. Led by
HBI electrical instructor Bob Christensen, students
have successfully completed rough wiring and finish
electrical projects at three Habitat developments. East
Bay Habitat praised the partnership in its Summer
2003 newsletter ■
PEOPLE
Henn Recognized by Region II
Dave Henn, HBI Regional
Program Manager, was recognized
by Job Corps’ Regional Office for
his dedication and hard work in
creating a center assessment form
to be used throughout the region.
Job Corps Region II encompasses
20 Job Corps campuses in the District
of Columbia, Delaware, Kentucky,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and West Virginia. Job Corps
Regional Director Lynn Intrepidi
presented Henn with the award.
Henn, a member of the Job
Corps Region II Vocational Task
force, works with vocational contractors, managers and fellow
instructors to gather information
on vocational issues, linkages, job
placements
and
vocational
assessments
through
Career
Development Services Specialists.
Congratulations!
Entiero in the News
Starr’s Back with HBI
HBI Brick Masonry Instructor
Joe Entiero has been appearing in a
number of local newspapers since
he
received
his
“Regional
Placement Award” at this summer’s HBI Job Corps Instructor
Conference in Phoenix. Since winning the award for Region II, news
releases on Entiero were sent to all
four publications featuring the
accomplished instructor - Times
Leader, The Citizen’s Voice,
Standard-Speaker, and The Sullivan
Review.
Starr Delgado, a 2001 HBI graduate from the Grafton Job Corps
Center, is back in Job Corps as an
instructor at the Westover Job
Corps Center in Chicopee, Mass.,
teaching plumbing to a new generation of HBI students. During a
visit to the Grafton Center in
October, Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney met with students
and staff, including Starr, pictured
at right with the Governor (center)
and Center Director Patrick van
Rooyen. Welcome back Starr! ■
More Tools and Tips of the Trade
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“Basic Principles for Construction” Joins RCA Series
A companion piece has joined HBI’s Residential Construction
Academy Series of instructional materials this December. Based
on HBI’s Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training (PACT) curriculum, “Basic Principles for Construction” will emphasize the basics of
residential construction. In addition, the volume will serve as a primer
for the more comprehensive craft trades titles in the RCA Series.
The Instructor’s Manual includes answers to review questions, lecture
outlines and exercises. An e.resource is a complete guide to classroom
management, while the CD-ROM contains lecture outlines, notes to
instructors, a computerized testbank, PowerPoint™ presentations,
image library as well as answers for review questions. ■
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More Make a Difference Day!
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George Copeland (left) Habitat site supervisor with HBI Job Corps students,
Lisa Norman, BNBA, and instructor Mike Giardina.
Nation’s Building News, NAHB’s newspaper, featured HBI Job Corps student efforts on Make a
Difference Day in its November 10 issue. Following is
an excerpt of the article:
Home Builders Institute (HBI) students enrolled at the
Cassadaga Job Corps Center outside Buffalo, NY, are
partnering with the Buffalo-Niagara Builders
Association (BNBA) and Habitat for Humanity to rehabilitate homes for area families.
Participating in “Make a Difference Day” last week
under the supervision of HBI instructor Mike Giardina
and Habitat for Humanity site supervisor George
Copeland, ten HBI students helped rebuild and revamp
a home’s entire plumbing system.
The BNBA’s “Hammering for Habitat” project offers
an ideal site for HBI’s Job Corps students to practice
their hands on training and make a difference for local
families every week. HBI also has students enrolled in
carpentry, electrical and painting programs on the
Cassadaga campus. ■
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International Builders Show,
Las Vegas, Nevada
February 2
Groundhog Job Shadow Day
April 16-18
National Youth Service Day