L & E E Endeavors Talent and Natural Skills Construction Training Center
About Us
Introduction
Many individuals from our diverse community both desire and lack the means to support themselves and their family. Our engaging, integrated, employment skills training in the building trades accentuates the positive characteristics within an individual to stimulate self-worth, and the use of the talents and natural skills that we all possess.
Not everyone plans for a career in the Building Trades. However, it is important that everyone learn the core skills that guide our lives. Far too many individuals are out-of-work or underemployed because they lack the skills to obtain employment, better employment, or better wages, and they lack the opportunity to obtain training in needed skill sets. The inability to obtain gainful employment contributes to numerous social problems like crime, recidivism, poor sense of self-worth, mental and medical illnesses, as well as strains and reductions in our local, state, and national economies.
While not everyone plans for a career in the building trades, the talent and natural skills that we all possess can be developed through skills training in the building trades. Integrated work and life skills training addresses issues that contribute to social ills, while also helping to develop positive work ethics and core skill sets.
It is important that everyone learns the core skills that guide our lives to reduce the numbers of individuals that are out-of-work or underemployed. Gainful employment contributes to the reduction of numerous social problems like crime, recidivism, poor sense of self-worth, mental health and medical illnesses, as well as strains and reductions in our local, state, and national economies. As we work in the field of carpentry, we teach the core skills that guide our lives, and the educational and technical abilities needed to become professionals in any endeavor.
Vision
The Center with the Capacity to Educate Individuals for the Demands of Life.
Mission
Our mission is to help individuals build character through learning the theory and practical applications of the construction building trades.
Objectives
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Adult Training, Education, and Lifelong Learning.
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Collaboration and Community.
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Development of Core Skills, Talents, and Work Ethic.
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Positive Communication and Hospitality.
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Safety in the workplace, as well as in everyday life.
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Taking responsibility for one’s own life.
Values and Guiding Principles
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Perspective
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Positivity
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Productivity
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Professionalism
Ownership
The Talent and Skills Training Center is owned by L & E E Endeavors, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. L & E E Endeavors’ mission is to help individuals build character through learning the theory and practical applications of the construction building trades. L & E E Endeavors develops and implements effective and engaging instructional courses and programs to achieve top performance levels, involving strategic techniques to relate training concepts to real-world practical applications.
Partnering with the local Workforce Center to recruit participants for our training program has been very successful over the last few years. We are reaching out to other job training and placement agencies to develop similar relationships. We believe that the effectiveness of our training will keep us in demand at these agencies as a viable means of helping people working toward gaining meaningful employment. We also appreciate our positive word-of-mouth and written customer reviews because the best way to promote L & E E Endeavors is the high quality of professionalism and training the participants receive throughout their experience.
Director/Instructor Qualifications
L & E E Endeavors and the Talent and Skills Training Center are the result of the personal effort, growth, belief, and development of its founder, Mr. Larry Evans. In other words, it is the story and example of his work and lifestyle improvements. It is proof that willingness, effort, support, and a plan can change one's life considerably. Having experienced unemployment, homelessness, incarceration, substance abuse, and illiteracy, Mr. Evans continued to pursue better opportunities in work and life.
Mr. Evans, a Journeyman Carpenter, military veteran, and skilled professional with an extensive background in training program development and leadership, has built a team of like-minded individuals to help others experience success in learning to obtain meaningful work and self-sufficiency. He has what it takes to help others make needed changes in their thinking and actions, because he made the needed changes in his own life by learning to live with integrity, ethics, trust, and dependability. His experience, highlighted below, performing comprehensive duties to facilitate class and field training operations ensures that our training instills the knowledge, ethics, and character that is needed to find meaningfulness and prosperity in life.
Instructor
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Extensive knowledge of construction skills.
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Rich experience of working as a construction instructor.
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Proven ability to learn attitudes, basic concepts and skills encompassed within the curriculum.
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Profound knowledge of tools and materials used in building construction.
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Capability to develop program goals and student performance objectives.
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Capability to prepare curriculum and learning materials.
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Effective assignment of coursework and projects, and allocation of tests and exams.
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Qualified evaluator of results and assessing progress.
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Competent instructor of a cohort size of 15 participants or more.
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Effectively boosts participation and information retention levels.
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Responds effectively to student inquiries and concerns.
Carpenter
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Construct, erect, install, and repair structures and fixtures of wood, metal studs, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter’s hand tools and power tools.
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Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
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Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power tools.
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Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, and other structures.
Construction
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Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites.
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Control traffic passing near, in, or around work arears.
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Load, unload, and identify building materials, machinery, or tools, distributing them to the appropriate location, according to project plans or specifications.
Professional Skills
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Strong listener.
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Excellent written & verbal skills.
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Flexible.
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Effective Instructor.
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Safety minded.
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Strong time management.
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Develops and implement project-based curriculum.
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Over 12 years of experience as an instructor.
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Dependable.
With a proven track record of exceptional teaching and training accomplishments, Mr. Evans has planned, organized and implemented an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages participants to develop and fulfill their talent and skills potential.
The Journey to Literacy by Larry Evans (2007)
The voyage that changes Larry Evans’ life from illiterate to literate began in the year 2005 AD. At this time, I was a volunteer worker at the Palmdale Work Source Center. On one particular day while volunteering at the center, I came across a flyer that read Adult Literacy located at the Culture Center next to the city library in Palmdale, CA.
My excitement and fear after figuring out what the words said on the flier led me to the adult learning center the following day. At that moment I became very unsure whether my lifelong dream could come to pass, but on this particular day I also felt in my heart that the moment of truth is at hand. With all the courage that I could muster, I find myself standing face to face with the director of the literacy program, Mr. Rod Williams. I admitted to Mr. Williams all my failed attempts to become literate. I said to him that academics has always been a struggle in my life and it started when I entered into the first grade. I said only God could understand how bad I wanted to learn all the academic subjects during my first years of school. As I continued conversing with Mr. Williams, I said I believed most of my life that God had not blessed me with the ability to comprehend the audible or written skills of the American language. I ended with how I felt other people with the ability to read and write had received a special gift from God to do so and I did not possess that gift.
Mr. Williams listened tentatively and said these words of encouragement to me, “It is an untruth for you to believe that you don’t possess the skills to learn how to read and write the English Language”. Mr. Williams then gave me a paper to read aloud. The results from me trying to read from this sheet of paper would show him the low level of reading skills I possessed. After listening to me read he put together a class schedule for me to follow while attending the center. The classes were phonics, grammar, and spelling, as well as meeting with my tutor once a week. The meeting ended with Mr. Williams saying to me, “With hard work you too Larry can learn the rules that put the American language together.
On my way home from Mr. Williams’ office I felt convinced that with hard work maybe I could learn to read and write English. Now I feel like my dream is at my fingertips. With encouragement from other adult learners and the volunteer tutoring staff, my self-confidence begins to grow out of control giving me the ability to learn. Consistently for months I spent countless hours at the Literacy Center learning more and more about the rules within the English Language. After two years of studying at the center, I find the courage with help from other students and tutors to take an English class at the city college located in Lancaster CA. Passing this class only built onto the new confidence that I now possessed. Today I still have academic challenges, but I no longer feel that other people have some unique advantage over me in the learning process. I will continue to be dedicated to my academic goals, and as I reflect on the low level of education that I once possessed and compare it to today, the difference can be seen as easy as day from night. My achievements in learning to read will serve as a beckon of light that will lead me to become a lifelong learner.