CONSTRUCTION CONNECT
Building pathways. Expanding possibilities.
CONSTRUCTION CONNECT AT A GLANCE
Hands-on
construction training
4-week cohorts
80 hours/sessions of instruction
Industry exposure and employer connections
OSHA-10
credentialing
Ongoing H2TF
mentoring and support
Construction Connect creates a pathway into the construction industry for participants who may not otherwise have the knowledge, relationships, or access needed to explore its possibilities.
Through hands-on training, ongoing H2TF support, and exposure to construction professionals and employers, participants build foundational skills while learning about the many careers and opportunities available within the industry.
More than construction training
Technical skills are an important part of preparing for a career in construction. But entering an unfamiliar industry also means learning how the industry works, understanding workplace expectations, discovering different occupations and career paths, and developing relationships with people already working in the field.
Construction Connect brings those pieces together.
Participants have opportunities to:
Build foundational construction knowledge and hands-on skills.
Learn about different occupations and career pathways within the industry.
Develop greater familiarity with construction workplaces and expectations.
Meet construction professionals and learn from their experiences.
Connect with employers and other industry partners.
Receive ongoing support from H2TF as they navigate training and their next steps.
The goal isn’t simply to complete a training program. It’s to help participants become better prepared to pursue construction as a viable career path.
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People arrive with different experiences and levels of readiness.
H2TF works with participants before and during Construction Connect to help identify what they may need to participate successfully. That can include understanding the program and industry, assessing whether the opportunity aligns with their goals, strengthening English or other foundational skills when needed, and addressing practical barriers to participation.
Readiness isn't about deciding whether someone is capable. It’s about helping each person prepare for the next step they want to pursue.
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Starting a pathway is one thing. Persisting within it is another.
Work schedules, transportation, family responsibilities, financial pressures, language barriers, or unexpected disruptions can make continuing difficult.
H2TF provides relationships, mentoring, navigation, encouragement, and problem-solving throughout the experience—helping participants address challenges and continue moving toward their goals.
Training creates an entry point. Relationships and support help make persistence possible.
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Construction isn’t one job. It’s an industry encompassing skilled trades, project management, design, engineering, estimating, safety, operations, and many other careers and opportunities for advancement.
For someone without existing relationships in the industry, those possibilities may be difficult to see or navigate.
Construction Connect helps participants encounter the people, workplaces, occupations, and career pathways that make the industry more understandable and accessible.
We don’t decide someone’s future for them. We help expand the futures they can realistically see and pursue.
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H2TF can provide preparation, relationships, and support. But construction professionals and employers provide something we cannot create alone: firsthand access to the industry itself.
Industry partners can help participants understand careers, experience real workplaces, develop
professional relationships, and see what advancement can look like.
There are many ways to participate. Your company might:
Introduce participants to careers and specialties within construction.
Host a workplace or jobsite visit.
Participate in a career conversation or industry panel.
Provide job-shadowing or other workplace exposure.
Offer mentorship and professional connections.
Create pathways to internships, apprenticeships, or employment.
Share insight about the skills and preparation people need to succeed in the industry.
Work with H2TF to identify and reduce barriers that can make an unfamiliar industry more difficult to enter.
Together, we can build a stronger bridge between people seeking opportunity and an industry seeking talent.
Building belonging and mobility
The ultimate goal of Construction Connect isn’t simply participation in construction training.
It’s helping people build the relationships, knowledge, confidence, skills, and connections that give them greater opportunity and greater choice.
Belonging means being connected, valued, supported, and able to participate—to begin seeing there is a place for me here.
Mobility means being able to move toward a desired future through skills, education, career opportunity, economic advancement, and greater choice.
Construction Connect brings those outcomes together by helping participants prepare, persist, and encounter possibilities within an industry that can offer many ways to build a future.
Invest in the pathway
Construction Connect requires more than a training course.
Investment helps make possible the preparation, training, relationships, navigation, industry exposure, and ongoing support that surround the participant experience and help turn an initial opportunity into a meaningful next step.
Individuals, companies, foundations, and other partners can invest directly in Construction Connect or help H2TF strengthen and expand pathways to education, careers, belonging, and economic mobility.