Introducing the benefits of a career in the trades to youth in the Omaha metro area.

Trades Offer Opportunities that Lead to Success (T.O.O.L.S.) is a collaborative program geared towards seventh through twelfth graders and provide year-round career exploration activities. The T.O.O.L.S. program can be tailored to your organizations needs. Please contact us to see how T.O.O.L.S. can help impact the youth you serve.

  • Forty-plus years of the “college-for-all” movement has saddled students with debt and discouraged students from entering the skilled-trades.

  • Over 50% of the skilled-labor workforce in Nebraska is going to retire in the next few years and we’re not even close to filling the paid training opportunities available right now.

  • Recent high school graduates are failing the trade apprenticeship entry-exams at an alarming rate. (Basic Math)

T.O.O.L.S. works to reverse these trends.

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