The McKenzie Regional Workforce Center, built in response to a nationwide trade worker shortage, is nearing completion, NBC15 reports. The space will help teach and train Dane County’s next generation of entrepreneurs and skilled tradespeople.
More than two million trade workers are needed across the U.S. The average skilled trade worker’s age is 58. The new center’s training programs will introduce children at the Boys and Girls Clubs to becoming a skilled trades worker and also support the development of soft skills.
The workforce center comes out of a partnership between the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the National Association of Home Builders.
