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YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAM
Town of Bernalillo
Program Purpose:
To teach marketable vocational skills and life skills to our youth
through the restoration of historic adobe properties.
Program Details:
- Established November, 2006
- Funded by New Mexico Youth Conservation Corp
- 2006: $117,000.00
- 2008: $142,000.00
- Funded by the Town of Bernalillo
- Funded by Sandoval County $17,000.00
- Twenty-Eight Unemployed Youth hired through the course of the project (thirteen currently employed on the project)
- Ages fourteen to twenty-five (under 16 require a work permit)
Projects:
- Restore a 1920’s terrone barn on the Lorretto Park Complex to house the New Mexico Wine Museum at Bernalillo.
- L.B. Putney Molino circa 1920’s to support TOD. The LB Putney Mill is near the Downtown Rail Runner Station. It is owned by the Town of Bernalillo
Construction Skills Learned: (24 trainings/4880 training hours)
- OSHA Certification (90 hours)
- Adobe Masonry/Mud Plasters
- Traditional Building Skills
- Conservation/Preservation of Earthen Architecture
- Carpentry Skills
- Drainage Transfer Preservation
Employment/Life Skills: (40 classes/987 class hours)
- Initial Interviews
- Career Skills Course, UNMLA
- Participation in the Town of Bernalillo Transit Orient Development Plan
- Leadership Development Seminars
- Team Building Exercises
- Field trip for contextual experience
- Financial Literacy Training
- GED Classes
Partners:
- Cornerstones Community Partnership
- University of New Mexico Los Alamos, Bernalillo Branch
- Sandoval County Economic Development Department
- Sandoval County, Office of the County Manager
- Sandoval County Juvenile Drug Court
- Bernalillo Public Schools Jobs for American Graduates Program
- Bernalillo Police Department
- AVTEC
- New Mexico Financial Literacy Project
Others Contact Agencies:
- Sandoval County Juvenile Probation Office
- Sandoval County Adult Probation Office
- Hogares
