Creating a Successful Model for Reforming, Retraining, and Employing Ex-Convicts in the Construction Trades in Baltimore

1. Revitalizing Baltimore’s Under-
Invested Neighborhoods:
Creating a Successful
Model for Reforming,
Retraining, and Employing
Ex-Convicts in the
Construction Trades in
Baltimore.
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Challenges & Background
1968 Riots (MLK) and 2015 Riots (Freddie Gray)
High Poverty, Historical and Institutional Racism
Unemployment, Underemployed and Unskilled
Crime: 325 Avg. Murders Annually since 2015
High School Drop Outs, Low Graduation Rates
War on Drugs, Physical & Mental Health Crisis
17,000 Abandoned & Vacant Buildings

3. What’s the problem?
• Baltimore neighborhoods are in
desperate need of economic
development
• Many persons who have been
incarcerated, cannot find jobs.
• Baltimore's construction industry
needs many more good workers.
• And existing training programs
have to overcome far too many
individual characteristics that
hinder successful performance.
The HBO Series “THE WIRE”
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4. Social Enterprise Business
By creating a new social purpose,
social enterprise business - - The
Baltimore Construction Training
Corporation, BCTC - – will:
• lead to employment
• generate jobs
• and help revitalize the
community.
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5. Hypothesis
Investment in human capital and training
• 1- can offer the underemployed, and
unemployed adults, a path to life success.
• 2 - It can enhance opportunities for under-
served families and former inmates.
• 3 - In particular, training in construction,
deconstruction, and demolition can provide a
solution.
• 4 - And, this training can lead to jobs that
also address the issues of vacant and
abandoned housing stock, and economic
development for neighborhoods.
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6. Alternative Solutions Considered
• Expand Training Programs.
• Create a New Program that
offers the right package that
will overcome those negative
characteristics, that hinder
successful performance.

7. JumpStart: Baltimore's
Premier Construction
Training Program
What is JumpStart:
JumpStart is a 14-week construction-
training program for Baltimore residents
with a high school diploma or GED.
Experienced teachers help students learn
plumbing, carpentry and electrical skills.
Students also receive essential safety
training, financial coaching, a stipend and
driver’s education. More than 70 percent
of students are placed in careers that lead
to high wages and apprenticeships.
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8. Humanim-Social Enterprise
Details Deconstruction create jobs and
reduce environmental waste. A labor
intensive, green alternative to demolition
takes old structures apart and repurposes
the materials.
Every Details project diverts salvageable
materials from overflowing landfills, and
creates jobs for skilled crew members who
have faced barriers to employment.

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10. Humanim-Social Enterprise
Brick + Board gives new life to reclaimed building
materials, while harnessing the salvage industry
toward meaningful social impact. Born as a sister
company to Details Deconstruction, they salvage
the materials taken from Details’ deconstruction
projects, and process them for resale, while
creating skilled, living-wage, green-collar jobs for
Baltimoreans with barriers to employment.

11. How can more City Residents take part in the
Economic Prosperity of Baltimore’s Renaissance?
Inner Harbor Port Covington Project
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12. Baltimore’s Construction
Forecast
• Over the next 10 years close to 10 billion dollars (an
estimated $9.7 billion) of public infrastructure
investments are proposed for Baltimore. Investments
include:
• $1.1 billion to renovate, build and modernize school
buildings;
• Up to $4.5 billion to rebuild the city’s water and
sewer systems;
• A projected $2.6 billion to build out the Red Line light
rail system connecting East and West Baltimore; and,
perhaps,
• $1.5 billion to renew and revitalize the State Center
office building complex.
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13. Market
Analysis in
Baltimore
10 Billion in infrastructure over
the next ten years.
5.5 Billion Port Covington Project.
600 million in State leverage
funding for Baltimore’s City.
75 Million in State funds for Project
Core (Demolition Projects) for the
next four years.
19 Million in City funds for Project
Core (Demolition Projects) for the
next four years.

14. Project C.O.R.E. or Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise, means a new canvas for Baltimore, clearing the way for new green
space, new affordable and mixed use housing, new and greater opportunities for small business owners to innovate and grow.
The initiative will generate jobs, strengthen the partnership between the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland and lead to safer,
healthier and more attractive spaces for families to live and put down roots.

15. How could taxpayers money be invested more wisely in
Maryland?
For the cost of sending one person to prison at the rate $37,000, Baltimore city could pay for
employment training for seven
people at $5,000 per person
housing (per month) for 30
families at $1,252
GED course for 37 people at
$1,000 per person
drug treatment for 8 people at
$4,494
While 1-10 people in the state are from Baltimore, almost 1/3 of the people in state prisons are
from Baltimore City
Maryland spends nearly 1 billion dollars annually on the state’s correction systems.
The Right Investment? Justice Policy Institute February 2015

16. Baltimore
Construction
Training
Corporation
• Social skills enhancement
• Basic math education
• Pre-Construction training
Pre-release training
• Job readiness and safety training
• Basic math and literacy education
• Financial literacy education
• Construction trade training
• Intensive cases management
Re-entry training
• On the job training
Employment

17. By expanding
opportunities where
everyone is able to
participate and
prospered
particularly those
from disinvested
neighborhoods, we
jump-start
economic
transformation.
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18. Conclusion
• We can revitalize
Baltimore’s neighborhoods:
• By creating and designing a
construction, deconstruction
and demolition social
enterprise business that
employs residents from the
community.
• And by filling this GAP will
revise neighborhoods,
enhance health, safety, and
environmental considerations,
and improve economic
opportunities for our most
vulnerable citizenry.
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