Learning Disaster - Teaching Repairs

A Win-Win-Win: Building Skills, Restoring Homes, and Changing Lives

What happens when vocational training meets disaster recovery? Everybody wins!

Through Recovering Oklahomans After Disaster (R.O.A.D.), vocational training teams have an opportunity to put their classroom knowledge to work by completing real home repairs for disaster survivors who cannot afford to make the repairs themselves. It is a partnership that creates three powerful outcomes.

A Win for the Trainee: Participants gain hands-on experience and practical construction skills while learning from experienced team leaders. From drywall and flooring to siding, painting, and insulation, trainees develop skills that can open doors to future employment and build confidence in their abilities.

A Win for the Disaster Survivor: A family struggling to recover from a disaster receives much-needed home repairs at no cost. What may seem like a simple repair project can mean the difference between living in an unsafe home and having a safe, sanitary, and functional place to call home again.

A Win for R.O.A.D.: A home repair project gets completed without the expense of hiring outside labor. This allows R.O.A.D. to stretch its resources further, serve more families, and continue its mission of helping Oklahoma disaster survivors rebuild their lives.

It's more than a home repair. It's an investment in people, families, and communities. One project creates a skilled worker, restores a family's home, and helps R.O.A.D. move another family closer to recovery.

Three different missions. One shared purpose. Three winners.

That's what we call a WIN-WIN-WIN!

R.O.A.D. – Making Homes Home Again.

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