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Technical Assistance

Technical assistance (TA) can help industry stakeholders build their workforce capacity and offer targeted guidance, training, and resources.

We help industry stakeholders strengthen their ability to conduct outreach, recruitment, assessment, training, and retention of women in the skilled trades. We collaborate with industry stakeholders to develop and implement tailored solutions, including customized training programs, gender lens curriculum, pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship support, tradeswomen leadership development initiatives, multi-stakeholder collaborations, and targeted outreach and recruitment strategies to connect women to skilled trades careers.

We work not only on the supply side to attract a strong talent pool but also on the demand side, ensuring that industry stakeholders such as contractors and employers are empowered with the knowledge and skills to retain a strong workforce. We provide training on safe and respectful workplaces, family-friendly policies and practices, health and safety for women in construction (HASWIC), and mentorship models.

Examples of what we can do:
  • Host panels
  • Design and facilitate workshops
  • Webinars
  • Briefing papers/fact sheets
  • Organize institutes/summits/roundtables/convenings
  • Establish women-focused pre-apprenticeship programs
  • Assemble multi-stakeholder collaborations

Our technical assistance offerings and audiences:

Best Practices in Outreach, Recruitment, Assessment, Training, and Retention
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers, workforce development boards, local/state/federal agencies)

Retention Best Practices: Creating Family-Friendly Policies
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers, workforce development board, local/state/federal agencies)

Mentorship Models
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers, workforce development boards, local/state/federal agencies)

Intersectionality in the Trades
(Tradeswomen, RAPs, unions)

Creating Tradeswomen’s Committees
(Tradeswomen)

Harassment Prevention Training
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers)

Bystander Intervention Training
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors/subcontractors, employers)

Creating Safe & Respectful Workplaces
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors/subcontractors, employers)

RISE Up (respectful worksite training)
(RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers)

Connecting Women to Good Trades Careers: Best Practices from a Workforce Board
(Workforce development boards, job training programs, RAPs, unions, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, employers, local/state/federal agencies)

HASWIC: Health & Safety of Women in Construction
(RAPs, unions, contractors, subcontractors, Tradeswomen, job training programs, local/state/federal agencies)

What’s Your Role?

You are part of the solution! You can help to reduce and even eliminate the barriers that women experience in the skilled trades: lack of career education and outreach from trades programs, historically sex-segregated vocational education and WIOA programming, lack of supportive services, harassment and discrimination, to name just a few.

Whether you run a job training program, are a construction RAP, an employer, an agency, a workforce development board, a tradeswomen’s group, or someone simply looking to share information about women in nontraditional occupations with your community, you can reach out to us for resources that will help level the playing field and give women access to these transformative careers.

Learn more about our available resources and how we can collaborate

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