507
WBL & YAP Coordinators
25,207
2021-22 Students Served
10,141
Participating Employers
$56,241,580
2020 Wages Earned by WBL Students
381
Participating Schools
The Georgia Work-Based Learning Program assists businesses with building a highly trained, technologically sophisticated and career oriented young work force. Our goal is to assist in the creation of a strong support structure between local employers, students and schools. Work-Based Learning supplies talent to address industry workforce shortage needs. We promote an industry-driven system where employers set occupational skills standards, collaborate on curriculum, provide work experience and certify mastery of skills. Focus on the future with Georgia Work-Based Learning.
Super Lawn Technologies, a manufacturing company in middle Georgia, experiences huge success through the first ever Work Based Learning partnership with local schools. Learn how they have given energetic and smart students a chance to gain valuable work experience while getting paid.
“Without support from the WBL coordinators who really KNOW the kids...we may not have as much success.”
Tony Bass, Founder Super Lawn Technologies
WBL & YAP Coordinators
2021-22 Students Served
Participating Employers
2020 Wages Earned by WBL Students
Participating Schools
Our local Work Based Learning program provides sharp, professional students who are talented and eager to learn. We use WBL participants as part of our intern program and enjoy how readily they integrate with our team. It is wonderful to have this resource in our community for creating career paths that benefit small businesses with a work-ready work force to recruit locally from.
ATLANTA, Georgia - September 26, 2018 — As part of an ongoing effort to promote the growth of the construction market in Georgia, Parrish Construction Group was pleased to have Trevone Wilson, a construction work-based learning student at Atlanta Public Schools’ Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus, as an intern this summer.
Trevone started working under Parrish Construction Group’s Director of Field Supervision, Art Cofelice, at Atlanta Public School’s Walden Athletic Complex. Walden was a $7.4 million project that consisted of the demolition of the existing Austin Thomas Walden Middle School building and the construction of a new athletic complex to serve Grady High School. The complex sits on a 6.27 acre site and included the construction of a fi eld house, a multipurpose turf athletic fi eld, and a softball/baseball fie ld.
Trevone then had the opportunity to transition from the Walden jobsite to the Atlanta Public Schools Howard Middle School jobsite. As the former school of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many other Atlanta Icons, Howard is one of Parrish’s most high-profi le jobs todate. Not only has Trevone excelled working under Art Cofelice at Walden and Howard but he also has had the opportunity to work with Parrish’s Project Managers, our BIM Manager, and various trade subcontractors.
Since Trevone’s summer internship, he has graduated from Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus and is currently attending Atlanta Technical College studying Construction Management. Over the next two years he will attend classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and will continue working on the Howard Middle School jobsite on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Trevone was a valuable addition to the Parrish team throughout the summer and we look forward to continue to work alongside him over the next few years.
ABOUT PARRISH CONSTRUCTION GROUP
Parrish Construction Group is “Georgia’s Premier Academic & Specialty Builder.” Founded in 1995, Parrish performs construction services throughout the state of Georgia, with a specialty in CM at-risk for education clients. www
