Teaching Basic Skills Helps Turn Lives Around in Atlanta

摘要

In 2014, when Ian Miller heard about the Construction Ready program at Westside Works in Atlanta, he thought it was a "money ploy" to get grants to support its own staff, rather than train participants for entry-level jobs. "I was skeptical," says the 29-year-old Miller, a 2014 Construction Ready graduate and field engineer with Holder Construction Co. He now recommends the program to others, calling it "wonderful."