Oklahoma ranks 3rd in the U.S. for disasters. Home repair for disaster survivors who can not recover on their own is a constant need. Many impoverished families have been isolated to small sections of their home due to damages, mold, and functional access. Recovering Oklahomans After Disaster, Inc. (ROAD) is working to make that long wait end!
Most Oklahoma disasters are undeclared and under resourced leaving families without assistance. Oklahoma remains in a constant state of recovery from past disasters while being impacted by new ones annually. Families on fixed incomes, with disabilities, and single parents and their kids, are left especially vulnerable to hardships.
ROAD partnership with CareerTech and WorkForce training unemployed individuals in construction while at the same time providing much needed free home repair services to disaster surviving families remains a powerful program to drive recovery efforts. The Vocational Training Apprenticeship Program offers full time work week after week repairing homes. This program reduces the time a disaster survivor has to wait for repairs while providing a new financial future for each participant.
The Vocational Training Apprenticeship Program is duplicatable across the state with each WorkForce board and CareerTech campus. Resourcing the states unemployed population provides an ongoing labor source enabling ROAD to more immediately respond to current disasters as well as continuing to provide free home repairs on past disasters. The states vulnerable population are given hope through more immediate resources and the apprentices are given long term employment possibilities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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