Riverfront School
Skilled Trades Program
Looking Glass Riverfront School Skilled Trades Program Manager, Michael Romano, shows off one of many awesome tools the students will use.
Riverfront School & Career Center now offers a Skilled Trades Program! The program is designed to educate students in all aspects of general construction, basic carpentry, electrical skills and other hands-on applications. The program was awarded two-years of startup funding by the Youth Development Division from the state of Oregon. The primary use for this funding will go toward the salary of the program manager, a position which we are currently hiring for, youth wages for an eight week-long summer work experience and program operating expenses.
“The main goals within the first year of the program are basically to get a shop space running, gather tools and develop curriculum,” explained Riverfront School Director Cheryl Zwillinger.
Looking Glass has formed partnerships with other area nonprofits wherein the Skilled Trades students will have hands-on learning opportunities helping to build structures including tiny homes on behalf of Square One Villages, Carry It Forward, and Community Supported Shelters. These structures will benefit the unhoused population of Lane County.
If you would like to donate or help the new Skilled Trades Program in any way, please reach out to Tyler Mack, Director of Marketing & Development at tyler.mack@lookingglass.us.
If you have questions for Cheryl Zwillinger or want to volunteer or offer professional support to this new program to assist with the education of the enrolled students, contact Cheryl at cheryl.zwillinger@lookingglass.us.