Grant Details

The mission of the NJBUILD Incarcerated Women in Construction program is to promote pre-apprenticeship training in the construction trades industry for incarcerated women residing in the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCFW). This grant will assist in providing greater opportunities and incentives for incarcerated women at the EMCFW by providing pre-apprenticeship training, basic skills instruction, workforce readiness (employability skills) instruction and a structured work experience which will emphasize vocational-based training for entry-level skills in the construction trades.

The program will seek to teach residents of the EMCFW entry-level construction skills and increase employment opportunities upon release from the Facility. LWD has established the following two objectives to achieve the goal of this grant:

• Engage eligible training providers to provide vocational and technical training to incarcerated women.
• Provide training in the following areas:
  • Basic skills instruction;
  • Workforce readiness (employability skills) instruction;
  • Introductory construction-related trades training; and 
  • Occupation-specific construction-related trades training.

All programs are expected to attain the following outcomes during the funding period:

• Participants enrolling in the program shall attain a minimum of one grade level per one hundred hours of instruction as measured by the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE).
• All participants will engage in all components of the program.
• Graduate a minimum of 45 participants from the introductory training courses
• Graduate a minimum of 30 participants from the occupation-specific advanced training courses.