Install Provides Update on Helmets to Hardhats Program

Glassboro, NJ, November 11, 2016—In April 2016, Install and Helmets to Hardhats (H2H) forged a partnership calling on Install contractors to sponsor veterans with the goal of bringing new skilled workers into the floorcovering industry through an apprenticeship program.

The partnership has since been actively recruiting veterans in both the United States and Canada and has seen tremendous results and surpassed expectations.

At the outset of the partnership Install and H2H set a goal of enrolling at least one veteran into the Install apprenticeship program per month in 2016. Since April, Install has entered 13 veterans into the program, meeting its goal by 163% with a little over a month yet to go in the year. Additionally, more than 80 vets have shown interest in an apprenticeship and Install is connecting them to contractors for possible career opportunities.

Helmets to Hardhats operates in both the United States and Canada with two complimentary, but independent programs that connect National Guard, Reserve, retired and transitioning active-duty military service members with skilled training and quality career opportunities in the construction industry. The program is designed to help military service members successfully transition back into civilian life by offering them the means to secure a quality career in the construction industry.

Install is a quality training and certification program dedicated to putting highly skilled floorcoverers to work in an industry that is suffering from a shortage in skilled labor. The two programs, recognizing the great potential to help each other, established the partnership with the ultimate goal of putting more veterans to work.