North America’s Building Trades Unions’ world-class registered apprenticeship programs train workers to become highly-skilled, six-figure earning construction workers through a debt-free, technologically-advanced education. These earn-as-you-learn programs pay family-sustaining wages and provide health care coverage and retirement benefits from day one.
Our construction registered apprenticeship supplies our country with the best American workers to build the roads, bridges, schools, and water and energy systems that keep America safe and competitive.
- Apprenticeship Readiness Programs
Apprenticeship Readiness Programs (“ARPs”) are educational programs that provide participants with the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary to choose, obtain, and succeed in a formal Registered Apprenticeship in the construction industry. TradesFutures helps develop, promote, and improve ARPs by developing courses and curriculum to be used by local ARPs; helping organizations such as secondary schools, vocational schools, colleges, labor management committees, government entities, and other community-based organizations, establish and maintain ARPs; conducting accreditation trainings to increase the number of educators qualified to teach ARPs; and supporting research efforts designed to expand and support ARPs.
The Knoxville Building & Construction Trades Council and its partner organizations administer two ARPs using the TradesFutures Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3): the East Tennessee Apprenticeship Readiness Program and the Knoxville RESET Apprenticeship Readiness Program.
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- MC3
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- East Tennessee Apprenticeship Readiness Program
- The East Tennessee Apprenticeship Readiness Program is a 3-week, 120-hour course intended to provide students with a strong preparation to enter a variety of apprenticeship programs. Included in the course are certifications for OSHA 30 and CPR, along with a math review, diversity and sexual harassment training, heritage of the American worker, construction trades awareness, and an introduction to local construction trades unions.
- (865) 272-4698
- [email protected]
- calm-tn.org/etarp
- RESET
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- Knoxville RESET Apprenticeship Readiness Program
- The Knoxville RESET Apprenticeship Readiness Program readies individuals for union apprenticeships through a targeted outreach program that recruits participants and provides them with comprehensive wraparound services, mentorship, and hands-on introductions and job placement in the Building Trades.