Let's Talk New Mexico 4/11 8a: From the film industry to welding to culinary arts, technical training programs can help people find careers. This week, we’re talking about apprenticeships and vocational training, and we want to hear from you.
What kind of career and technical education would be helpful for you? Have you been in a program like this? How accessible are these opportunities to job-seekers of different ages and backgrounds? Call in live during the show or email LetsTalk@kunm.org.
Guests:
- Jessica Nojek, executive director of Mission: Graduate at the United Way of Central New Mexico
- Chas Robles, program director of the Ancestral Lands conservation corps
- Sheryl Williams Stapleton, coordinator/director of Career Technical Education at Albuquerque Public Schools and NM state representative
- Vincent Hesch, machinist apprentice program administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Estevan "Rico" Ramirez, apprentice at Adal Yay Alteration & Tailoring, costume department worker in the film industry, and owner of The Mop
Here are all the training opportunities and resources we talked about:
Albuquerque / Bernalillo County
- ACE Leadership High School is a charter school focusing on architecture, construction and engineering
- Albuquerque Job Corps is a tuition-free residential trade school for people ages 16-24
- Ancestral Lands program works with Native American youth & young adults on conservation projects on public lands
- Associated General Contractors of America NM Apprenticeship Program
- CNM Career Technical Education
- Gordon Bernell Charter School serves youth and adults exiting incarceration
- Graduate! ABQ is a free program that helps adults start or return to college
- Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
- La Plazita Institute offers gardening, silkscreen printing, and other social enterprise training
Around The State
- Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps operates out of Acoma, Zuni, and Gallup
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Machinist Apprenticeship, a mastery-based program meant to lead into a job at LANL
- NM Career Solutions, a hub by the Department of Workforce Solutions with internships, mentorship, financial resources, and career exploration
- Northern New Mexico College's Radiation Control and Protection Technician training program, in partnership with LANL
- Rocky Mountain Youth Corps in Taos
- Santa Fe Opera's Young Technicians program, free for high school students to learn scene construction, costuming, lighting, stage management and more
- UA Local 412 Plumbers and Pipefitter's apprenticeship program
- United Way of Central New Mexico
