OUR OUR PROGRAMS
Construction & Housing
Alaska builds year-round, and it always needs hands that know what they're doing. This track takes you from the fundamentals — tools, materials, jobsite safety — through the building maintenance and housing skills that keep you employable in every season. Your instructors are seasoned Alaskan contractors who've spent decades on the state's toughest job sites, and they teach the way the work actually happens: hands on, standards high, safety first.
THE TRAINING
What You'll Learn
Training covers the fundamentals that every job site expects: hand and power tools, materials, safety standards, and building maintenance. Instruction is hands-on from day one, delivered by seasoned Alaskan contractors, and modules stack over the cohort so each finished skill is banked before the next begins. Graduates leave ready for entry-level construction, housing, and maintenance work — with jobsite safety training that employers across the state require.
THE STRUCTURE
How Training Runs
Training runs hands-on within a 12–16 week cohort, built from short, stackable modules — complete one, bank it, move to the next. OSHA safety training is part of the track, and every module finished is a credential you can put on an application immediately. Success Training comes first for every participant, and case management runs alongside the whole way.
AFTER THIS PHASE
Where It Leads
Construction is one of Alaska's steadiest doors into work — crews statewide need dependable entry-level hands, and maintenance work continues through every season. Employers who train and hire through the program know exactly what our graduates arrive with.
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Example Roles:
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Construction laborer
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Carpenter's helper
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Building maintenance technician
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Housing rehabilitation crew member
Hand & power tools
Jobsite safety (OSHA training)
Building materials & methods
Building maintenance
Working as a crew
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
No. The track starts at the fundamentals — which tool, how to hold it, how not to get hurt by it — and builds from there. Arriving at zero is normal here.
Training builds your capacity the same way it builds your skills: gradually, with safety first. If there's a physical concern, bring it up at orientation and it becomes part of the plan, not a disqualifier.
Not to train. Some construction jobs prefer or require one, so if you don't have a license, getting there becomes a step in your plan — named early, not discovered late.
If you can use a tape measure, you're most of the way there — and we teach the tape measure too. Jobsite math is taught as part of the work, not as a class you can fail.
GET STARTED
Cost & Getting Started
Orientation is a conversation, not a test. We'll walk you through the program honestly, answer your questions, and start building the plan — and the relationship — that carries you through. Come on your own or through a referring agency; either door leads to the same place.