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YouthBuild Construction Pre-apprenticeship Program
YouthBuild Construction Pre-apprenticeship Program
at Georgia Building Trades Academy
Atlanta Catalog
The Georgia Building Trades Academy (GABTA) YouthBuild Program is a hands-on construction pre-apprenticeship program designed to prepare trainees to enter and succeed in a Registered Apprenticeship Program. Through the 9-month program, trainees will gain construction skills and training to develop a positive work ethic.
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Example Career
Carpenters
Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.
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Hourly Wage
$37,440
$56,350
$94,580
$18
$27.09
$45.47
Admissions
- The participant is between the ages of 16 and 24 on the date of enrollment
- Is a member of a low-income family. This includes:
- Youth experiencing housing instability), and/or
- Youth in foster care (including youth aging out of foster care), and/or
- Youth involved in the justice system and/or
- Youth who is an individual with a disability, and/or
- A child of an incarcerated parent, and/or
- A migrant youth
- 3. Left high school prior to graduation, or an individual who left high school prior to graduation and has subsequently reenrolled