Training people for skilled-trades careers through nationally recognized construction education, hands-on training, mentorship, and real-world work experience.
HIMP connects education to actual job-site experience and creates a pathway from:
HIMP is about more than learning construction. It’s about changing direction, creating opportunity, building confidence, and showing people what is possible when somebody is willing to invest in them.
HIMP connects people with skills, income, mentorship and opportunity. Participants don’t simply learn construction in a classroom. They develop their skills through hands-on training and real-world work while building a pathway toward skilled employment, leadership and business ownership.
Learn construction fundamentals and professional skills.
Apply those skills through hands-on and real-world experience.
Build competency and move toward skilled employment and leadership.
Develop the knowledge to build businesses, assets and opportunities for others.
A 2-week course: online lessons plus hands-on practicals, NCCER Core and the OSHA-10 safety card.
Selected graduates earn wages while rotating through the maintenance trades beside journeyworkers, about 2,000 to 3,000 work hours.
Specialty trade pathways, project leadership, entrepreneurship, asset building and mentoring the next generation.
Advancement is based on hours worked, demonstrated skill, professionalism, safety and readiness.
Explore the Full Program →HIMP is designed to close the gap between learning construction and actually working in construction.
Participants build more than classroom hours. They build documented experience, job-site habits, professional references and a record of completed work.
HIMP combines NCCER-based construction education with hands-on skill development and real job-site experience.
Plus: Safety • Exterior Upkeep • Customer Service • Tools • Employability • Financial Literacy
View the Full Curriculum →NCCER instruction, construction knowledge, career development and professional skills.
Tools, safety, construction techniques and supervised skill development.
Approved residential, commercial and community-based projects.
Training schedules may vary by cohort, program phase and available project opportunities.
See How the Program Works →
A completed residential maintenance and exterior renovation project, carried out by HIMP participants.
Participants framing and building on a real HIMP project — measuring, cutting and installing as a crew.
HIMP works with businesses, contractors, mentors and community organizations to create training, work-based learning and career opportunities.
Organizations supporting training, mentoring, education or program development.
Businesses and organizations providing approved real-world project experience.
Employers and apprenticeship organizations creating career opportunities for qualified participants.
HIMP works with approved businesses, contractors and community partners to connect training with real-world project experience. Have a project that could create training or work opportunities?
Sponsors help HIMP provide training, equipment, credentials, transportation, work experience and career-development opportunities.
Applying to HIMP is free. Apprentices are paid for the hours they work, and funding, sponsors and an earn-while-you-learn agreement can cover tuition. The full program is $10,000, and many participants pay little or nothing out of pocket.
Learn About Cost & Funding →No construction experience required. Bring your willingness to learn, work, show up and grow.