Learning Disaster - Teaching Repairs

2023 has not been a slow year for disasters.  Already many more families are placed in a greater state of need due to recent tornadoes and hurricane force winds in multiple towns and cities across the state.  Soon Oklahoma will have three disasters in an active recovery phase in different parts of the state stretching recovery organizations thin in order to meet the need.

ROAD has been positioning itself over the last few years and most specifically over the last few months where its vocational training program can provide the needed labor force to help all those in need.  Since 2020 ROAD has partnered with Career Tech and WorkForce to train individuals who had a justice involved background in the art of home remodeling.  This hands-on training gives each participant practical skills needed for them to be a handy-man or a private contractor.  In this role those who need their past put behind them have the greatest chance of being gainfully employed.  That is a WIN!

For the disaster survivor, they receive their home repairs free of charge.  They never pay anything for the materials or the labor.  Making the disaster survivors home home again, allows them to stay in their community.  This is a WIN!

ROAD is working hard to find a stable labor force to make recovery happen all across the state for all families who have little to no means of recovery on their own. In the fall of this year ROAD will incorporate the Department of Corrections work-release program into their vocational training.  Those who have completed the six month carpentry school will be the first elegible participants.  Having six months of classroom training plus ROAD's hands-on program will give those participants, once released, the greatest chance of employability day one.

We see all this as a WIN-WIN for the natural disaster survivor as well as for the personal disaster survivor.

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