YouthBuild Program

The YouthBuild Program offers low-income young adults, ages 17-24, a nine-month workweek program. During the YouthBuild Program, trainees have an opportunity to increase their basic employment skills by…

  • Obtaining their GED and acquiring computer skills in our computer lab by taking classes taught by instructors from the College of Lake County (CLC)
  • Learning marketable construction skills by building affordable homes in Lake County
  • Earning an Home Builder’s Institute certification
  • Building a more hopeful future through counseling, life skills and job readiness training
  • Securing employment or entering college

Trainees with their children during the 2009 holiday party.

This program is funded by: