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Selection Process
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During an evaluation period, OFS assesses recruits' academic, pre-employment, work maturity, independent living, youth leadership, and job-specific skiffs. These assessments provide the basis for individualized planning and monthly joint evaluations to assist participants to overcome barriers to employment and self-sufficiency. After orientation, the prospective individual trainee and a staff team jointly decide whether or not the young person should enroll. Most of each day is spent working/training on housing construction sites. Journey-level construction trainers supervise crews of eight to ten members. Crews undertake all non-licensed phases of the construction or renovation of family homes. Trainees learn job-specific skills required for residential construction, and they learn basic work maturity skills, such as thoroughness and task-related initiative, needed for employability.
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