Technical assistance (TA) can help industry stakeholders build their workforce capacity and offer targeted guidance, training, and resources through an equity lens.
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
We develop customized technical assistance for these audiences:
Pre-apprenticeship programs
Construction registered apprenticeship programs (RAPs)
Job training programs
Workforce development boards
Local/state/federal agencies
Employers
Tradeswomen
Unions
Project owners
Contractors
Subcontractors
Best Practices in Outreach, Recruitment, Assessment, Training, and Retention
Retention Best Practices: Creating Family-Friendly Policies
Mentorship Models
Intersectionality in the Trades
Creating Tradeswomen’s Committees
Harassment Prevention Training
Bystander Intervention Training
Creating Safe & Respectful Workplaces
RISE Up (respectful worksite training)
Connecting Women to Good Trades Careers: Best Practices from a Workforce Board
Health and Safety of Women in Construction (HASWIC)
Contact us to learn more about our available resources and how we can collaborate.
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 (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) 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.
