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The Building Bridges Project, a part of ARISE Chicago, formerly the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, has been operating in Chicago since 2001.
The Building Bridges Project is an innovative initiative of the Chicago Interfaith that organizes clergy and building trades leadership towards two objectives:
- Increasing the community's knowledge of and access to building trades apprenticeship programs and;
- Encouraging local construction projects to use union labor that guarantees prevailing wages, family benefits and safe working conditions. Building Bridges Project trains individuals throughout different parts of the community to prepare to apply and take the test for various building trades construction apprenticeship programs.
The Building Bridges Project works as a pre-apprenticeship program that takes place in churches to prepare individuals in the community to take the entry exam to enter the building trades apprenticeship program for construction work. Pre-aprenticeship courses last 14 weeks, 3 hours once a week. Students receive orientation to various Building Trades and apprenticeship school tours.
If you would like to find out more about our organization or volunteer please contact Rev. Haynes at (773) 728-8400, ext. 28.