As Housing Pauses, Immigrant Laborers Return to School to Expand Their Tool Belt From: washingtonpost.com
Tagged: childrenPosted on: June 9th, 2008
With home-building jobs increasingly hard to come by, the Residential Construction Workers Association of Alexandria is trying to help Hispanic workers improve their marketability and skills with a new curriculum that teaches them construction trades as well as small-business skills.
Though not strictly limited to Hispanic workers, the group has offered an array of social-service referrals and counseling in Spanish since its founding in 2002, assisting immigrant workers in enrolling their children in school, obtaining a driver’s license and finding courses to learn English.
Now the group is making training and certification its primary activity.”*
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