- Make safety a priority (especially for this kind of work) including proper Personal Protective Equipment training and supervision.
- Ensure that within your staff team you have someone with the ability to manage the business side and someone with the ability to manage the project in terms of scheduling, sub-contracting, material management etc. More than a third of your time is often lost on construction projects due to scheduling.
- Hire sub-contractors directly who understand the program and who are willing to mentor youth.
- Have staff with a balance of youth worker skills and carpentry/construction skills, so they can manage both sides of the work.
- Recognize and address the high start-up cost to the youth (i.e. transportation, Personal Protective Equipment, work clothes and safety equipment, etc.)
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- Overview
- Creation of the Toolkit
- How the Toolkit is Organized
- Acknowledgements
- Youth Homelessness Overview
- Youth Unemployment Statistics
- Homelessness And Youth Un/Employment
- Employment Programs for Youth
- Promising Practices for Community Agencies
- What is Energy Poverty?
- What is Energy Retrofitting?
- References
- Understanding Employment Insurance (EI)
- Employment Insurance Overview
- → Calculating EI
- → Variable Best Weeks
- EI Family Supplement
- History
- Philosophy
- Core Values
- Model
- Programs
- Overview
- History
- Criteria
- Application/Screening Process
- Duration
- Completion
- Hours
- Tiers
- → Tier 1
- → Tier 2
- → Tier 3
- The Work
- → Retrofits
- → Modernization and Improvement (M&I)
- → Special Contracts
- Standards
- Supports to Success
- Intensive Support Model
- → Case Management as part of ISM
- GED
- Housing Supports
- Harm Reduction Approach
- Strength-Based Approach
- Training
- Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Certificate of Recognition™ (COR™) Certification
- → COR™ and PRIME
- Carpenters Millwrights College (CMC)
- Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation (NLHC)
- CUPE Local 1860
- Staff Training
- Staff Roles
- Train for Trades Staff Job Descriptions
- → Sub-Contractors
- Evaluation and Measuring Progress
- Youth
- Construction
- Sustainability
- Awards and Recognition
- General Recommendations
- Construction-Specific Recommendations
- Why Do This?
- Changes to Youth Complement
- Changes to Tier System and Workload
- Changes to Staffing
- Changes to Funding
- Changes to Evaluation
- About Choices For Youth
- Conclusion
- Funding
- Theoretical Approaches
- Youth Employment Backgrounder
- Lessons Learned and Recommendations
- Safety
- Changes to T4T for 2015-2016
- Social Enterprise Backgrounder
- Energy Issues Backgrounder
- Train for Trades
- Applying for the Program
- Partnerships
- Policies and Procedures
- About the Work
- Staffing
- Youth Employment Toolkit
- Evaluation and Measuring Progress
- Construction-Specific Recommendations