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Local trades council presents MC3 apprenticeship program; supervisors praise training and placement rate
Summary
A representative from the Kern and Tulare County Building and Construction Trades Council described a 10-week MC3 program that connects participants to skilled-trade apprenticeships and reported over 80% placement; supervisors praised the program and noted its accessibility for people who are justice involved.
Alyssa Reid, executive secretary of the Kern and Tulare County Building and Construction Trades Council, told the Kern County Board of Supervisors about the council’s Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3), a 10-week, grant-funded training program that connects community members with skilled-trade apprenticeships.
Reid said the program introduces participants to multiple trades, teaches what each trade does and how to join an apprenticeship, and that the council has an over 80% placement rate. "Our programme is 10 weeks long and, in our partnership with the trades, we have an over 80% placement rate with all of the folks coming out of our program," she said.
Reid described the program’s local partnerships and listed participating crafts: electricians; plumbers and pipefitters; operating engineers; painters; cement masons; ironworkers; sheet-metal workers; plasterers; and teamsters. "Our program covers specifically, we partner with the local electricians, plumbers and pipe fitters, the operating engineers, the painters, the cement masons, the iron workers, the sheet metal workers, the plasters, and the teamsters," she said.
Several supervisors praised the program’s role in career pathways and upward mobility. Supervisor Perez called the program transformative and noted a demonstrated community effort to support participants. Supervisor Parlier asked for the specific trades offered; Reid provided the list and invited supervisors to visit classes and graduations.
Reid said MC3 has no barriers to entry for people who are justice involved and that council graduates have started long-term careers. "Our program doesn't have any barriers to entry from the perspective of those folks that are justice involved, and so we've seen a lot of folks that are justice involved that come into our program and have had just phenomenal results and started really long term careers," she said.
The presentation appeared during the public presentations portion of the meeting; no formal board action was recorded in the provided transcript in response to the remarks.
