CCDI Community Builder: Issue 10

CCDI COMMUNITY BUILDER

ISSUE 10: 2022-2023

FOUNDED 2015

The CONSTRUCTION CAREER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (CCDI)

OUR STORY

CCDI stands for Construction Career Development Initiative. CCDI is a 501(c)(3) non-for-profit which was founded by Clayco in 2015 in response to the aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri to provide a program for selected young adults in North County to help them overcome barriers to success, pair them in mentorships, offer financial support and create opportunities for job placement in the construction industry. Clayco’s vision with CCDI is to support workforce diversity and bridge the gap in workforce development and create scholarship opportunities. Now, CCDI has grown Beyond the Walls of Clayco to include many partnerships in the St. Louis community with school districts, workforce development programs, general contractors and subcontractors. Our goal is to connect the vast ecosystem of industry and educational resources and to promote collectively working together in #BuildingTheFoundationForChange for our next generation of leaders in the construction industry.

GUIDING PRINCIPLE #1 –

Real World Experience

We go beyond the classroom. We get jobseekers into real-world work environments for the most valuable career training.

GUIDING PRINCIPLE #3

Job Placement

With CCDI, training and mentorship are just the beginning. We provide the support and directino jobseekers need to successfully find work.

GUIDING PRINCIPLE #2 –

Building Awareness

Jobs in construction span a diverse range of disciplines and applications. We work to raise awareness of the various trade apprentice programs.

GUIDING PRINCIPLE #4 –

Academic Scholarship

Our mentorship emphasizes academic goals. We encourage jobseekers to pursue two- or four-year degrees, focusing on tuition assistance.

brings diversity to the Design and Construction industry by mentoring and exposing minority/underrepresented and under employed men and women to career development in construction.

OUR IMPACT

One of our many goals within CCDI is to cultivate renewed interest in career technical education (CTE) and trade apprenticeship programs. Nationwide the construction industry is thriving, but as Baby Boomers continue to retire, the gap in finding qualified and diverse skilled workers to hire continues to increase. There has never been a more important time for the construction industry to make diversity and inclusion a priority. When you have people who come from different backgrounds, they bring unique experiences that cultivate innovation and creativity. CCDI is building that pipeline by exposing and educating youth to careers in construction while addressing and breaking down the barriers that exist in creating a more diverse, robust and sustainable skilled workforce. CCDI has a strong network of partnerships with multiple school districts and workforce development programs to enhance the classroom experience for students by facilitating field trips, coordinating job shadowing and internships, attending career fairs, arranging guest speakers and hosting annual hiring fairs for program graduates.

2022 - 2023 PROGRAM METRICS

150

EMPLOYMENT

Assisted 150 people with full-time employment

52 SCHOLARSHIPS

Awarded 52 scholarships totaling over $500,000

56 INTERNSHIPS

56 college or summer internship placements

85 STUDENTS

85 students participated from 15 area high schools this year

• Annually introduces roughly 1,000 high school students to careers in construction.

• 85 students from 15 area high schools enrolled for the 20222023 school year.

• Average of 30 students attended monthly Saturday Academy sessions

• Helped 19 students with vehicle assistance scholarships.

• Placed 56 students into paid summer & college internships.

• Awarded 52 Build Our Future college scholarships totaling over $500,000 to students pursing secondary or technical education.

• Assisted 150 people with full-time employment in addition to awarding $25,000 in tool assistance scholarships.

• 40 active graduates participate in our Alumni Network to improve industry retention and mentor high school students in the program pipeline.

Tom Sieckhaus Sandra Marks

Dan Lester

Larry Zelenovich Morris Hervey

Patrick Hanneken Scott Rahn

Debbie Thomas

CCDI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Sean Kenny

BUILD OUR FUTURE SCHOLARSHIPS

In May, CCDI hosted our annual Build Our Future Scholarship awards ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2023! This event marked a special program milestone as we not only awarded our largest class of recipients to date with $170,000 in scholarships, but also celebrated our first four college graduates who have secured full-time employment! The graduates were accompanied by program mentors who spoke on their individual journeys, achievements, and involvement in the CCDI program throughout their high school and collegiate careers. Congratulations, graduates!

BUILD OUR FUTURE SCHOLARS

The ceremony continued with awarding four students the Richard Boyd, Jr. Memorial Trades Scholarship, to continue their education in trades related pathways at Ranken. CCDI created this memorial scholarship to honor Richard’s life and celebrate his memory. Special thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Boyd for helping to present the awards and share their story with guests. The evening ended with recognizing the six newest recipients of the Build Our Future scholarship, awarded to top-qualifying minority students who plan to pursue construction related degrees. Our newest scholars will be attending Missouri S&T, Drury and Prairie View A&M. We are very excited to welcome them to the CCDI family and network of Build Our Future Scholars! A very special thank you to all sponsors of CCDI for making these annual scholarships possible!

ARYAH MAYS

Incarnate Word

Civil Engineering

IKE PRUDE

Lutheran North Architectural Engineering

CAI TOLLIVER

McCluer South-Berkeley Mechanical Engineering

BENJAMIN CARTER

Whitfield

Civil Engineering

TAYRES BLUETT

Chaminade Civil Engineering

RICHARD BOYD JR. TRADES SCHOLARS

TEPRIYA MCMULLEN

Pattonville & North Technical Electrical

MONTRAE WADE

Innovation & North Technical Plumbing

OJORE GREEN

Riverview & North Technical Plumbing

TRE’VION FLEMMING

Ritenour High School Carpentry

LILY HENRY McKinley Architecture

AWARDS FROM CLAYCO’S CHAIRMAN & FOUNDER BOB CLARK >>

COLLEGE GRADUATES & CAREER PLACEMENT

Our mission came full circle this year as CCDI celebrated our first class of Build Our Future scholarship recipients who all graduated from college and secured full-time employment in their respective career pathways! Special thanks to each of their mentors who have been a part of their journey since high school. We are thrilled to recognize this very important milestone in our program and wish each of our newest college graduates the best of luck as they start the next chapter of their lives.

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT INTERNSHIPS

MALIK SEDIQZAD CLAYCO

DE’AJA JACKSON SM WILSON

2018 Scholar Ritenour High School Missouri S&T B.S. in Business & Management Systems Mentor: Sandra Marks

KYAH DONALD 2018 Scholar North Tech & McCluer North Missouri Western State B.S. in Construction Engineering Technology Mentor: Rick Moeckel

STEVEN GRAVES

2019 Scholar Jennings High School Missouri S&T B.S. in Information Science & Technology

Mentor: Jesse Sanders

DOMONIQUE NELSON

2019 Scholar Ritenour High School Ranken

B.S. in Architectural Technology Mentor: Debbie Thomas

GERALDINE FLORES

CATALINA MUNDIN CLAYCO

HANNAH DINWIDDIE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION ENGINEERING ERIC LYTLE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY LLC

BEN CARTER TSI GEOTECHNICAL

2023 SIGNING DAY

In June, CCDI hosted our Annual Senior Signing Day at North Technical High School to celebrate the Class of 2023 and the graduating seniors who have signed on to work for local companies in the construction trades! CCDI awarded tool scholarships to help the graduates get started in each of their respective trades, as well as lunch coolers, water jugs and PPE! CCDI Alumni from 2015 to 2022 returned for this special occasion to give the newest apprentices a few words of advice on how to be successful in the trades. We also had the opportunity to recognize a tremendous achievement for 5 of our Alumni who all journeyed out of their apprenticeship programs this year and taken on even bigger roles in each of their companies! Thank you to all the parents, teachers, company sponsors, mentors and program partners that came out to applaud the accomplishments of this awesome group of students. Special thanks to all our donors who have made this program possible year after year and who continue to hire, retain, and mentor our students!

ATTENDING ALUMNI:

FULL-TIME TRADES HIRES

JOURNEY LEVEL ALUMNI

Congratulations goes out to five of our alumni in the trades who all completed their union apprenticeship training programs this year and earned journey-level status in their respective trades. Special thanks to the contractors and subcontractors who have helped to keep our students employed and retained in the industry to be able to accomplish this important career milestone. Our alumni are a testament of the impact that CCDI has in our community and we are so happy to see them give back to the program by mentoring new students interested in the trades!

CHRIS CONNERS: CARPENTERS LOCAL 97 CONCRETE STRATEGIES

JANELL MCGEE: FLOOR LAYERS LOCAL 1310 FLOORING SYSTEMS

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

DARYL SPANN: LABORERS LOCAL 42 SLEDROC CONSTRUCTION

D’VON JOHNSON – D. JOHNSON PAINTING

D’Von Johnson, 2019 Alum and McCluer Grad has been active in CCDI for the past 5 years. D’Von interned with Clayco as a quality control manager after high school. He decided to pursue a career in the painting trades and with the help of CCDI, started working as an apprentice painter for PM Leach. D’Von also wanted to further his education and became an Apprentice Scholar where he worked full day while taking business classes at the community college in the evenings. D’Von noticed there was a need for minority commercial painters in the industry and decided to start his first business venture running his own company, D. Johnson Painting.

DE’HON MULL – CONCRETE STRATEGIES

De’Hon Mull, 2019 BOF Scholar and Jennings Grad joined CCDI in 2018 when he was a high school junior. He attended all our Saturday Academies and was matched with Mr. Tommy Davis, President of TD4 Electrical, as his mentor who assisted De’Hon with buying his first car. De’Hon began studying business at STLCC after high school, but opted to change directions and went into auto mechanics for several years. CCDI reconnected with De’Hon when he was hired on full-time at Concrete Strategies in June to pursue a career as a cement mason with Local 527! CCDI awarded De’Hon a tool scholarship to get him started.

TIMYRA GRANGER: CEMENT MASONS LOCAL 527 KEELEY

DARNELL JAMISON: CARPENTERS LOCAL 97 WIES DRYWALL

2016 2017 2019 2018 2019

CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER ALUMNI TRADES DAY

In October, 30 students took a visit to Washington University School of Medicine Multidisciplinary Cancer Center which is being built by Clayco. They had the opportunity to meet the project team and tour the job site where they spoke to several different tradesmen and got to see construction in action. Thank you, Clayco, for hosting!

In November, 43 students attended Alumni Trades Day hosted at North Tech. This annual session is an opportunity for students to engage in different trade related demonstration stations each taught by CCDI alumni. We had a special turn out of 12 alumni who all gave great advice on how to be successful in the trades. Thank you, Mr. Hanneken!

TOPGOLF MIDTOWN

In March, 25 students had a unique opportunity to see the construction of a Topgolf project firsthand! ARCO/Murray invited our students to their Midtown project where they learned about how Topgolf locations are built in different states and then took a tour of the site. Thank you, ARCO/Murray, for sending our students home with awesome swag bags!

EVENT CORNER

0LIVE CROSSING PROJECT

In April, 29 students took a visit to Keeley Companies Olive Crossing project. They learned all about the Keeley’n culture and career opportunities from Mr. Brian Pate, Vice President of Building and then geared up to take a tour and learn about this residential build. Thank you, Keeley, for hosting our students!

SENIOR TOOL BELT DONATION

CCDI outfitted the seniors in Mr. Patrick Hanneken’s class at North Tech with custom tool belts. Each senior got to keep the tool belt upon graduation to get them started in the trades!

7TH ANNUAL BOWLING NIGHT

We hosted our 7th Annual Bowling Night at Crest Bowl in December to celebrate the holidays and have some fun! Great turn out of students and alumni. Thank you, Branyea Jones, for helping to coordinate the event.

BRINKMANN FIELD TRIPS

CCDI helped to coordinate several field trips to Brinkmann’s R&R Marketplace project in Dellwood for the construction cluster classes at North Tech. Students had the opportunity to meet MBE/WBE owners and tour the job site.

CCDI GIVES BACK

EARTH DAY TREE PLANTING

Every Spring, CCDI plans a service project for our students to participate in as a way to engage and give back to the communities we help serve. This year, our project landed on Earth Day… and what better way to celebrate than by planting trees! CCDI students, alumni and volunteers teamed up to plant trees and shrubs at Delmar DivINe that were donated by Clayco! Many of our students had the opportunity to tour this awesome project as it was being renovated and several of our program alumni were tradesmen and women who actually worked on this building. We are happy to see all the life and love this project embodies; Maxine Clark is a true visionary! Thank you to Matt Drobak of Clayco and Neil Eisenberger of LJC for leading the efforts to make this service project possible.

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

BUILD MY FUTURE EVENT - STLCC

CCDI teamed up with North Technical to participate in the Build My Future event at STLCC- Florissant Valley. Over 1,000 area high school students attended the event to learn about the many pathways in our industry. Special thanks to Mr. Patrick Hanneken, Mr. Byron Lane and the senior students in the construction program for hosting demo stations where visiting students could practice using hand tools like sawing and hammering!

EIGHTH GRADE CAREER DAY

CCDI and Construction Forum teamed up at the Regional Youth Employment Coalition’s (RYEC) “Level Up” Conference at STLCC- Forest Park, hosted by STEMSTL, to talk to high school students about career opportunities in the construction industry!

Thank you to CCDI 2019 Alumni, Darnell Jamison & D’Von Johnson for participating in Eighth Grade Career Day for six middle schools in St. Louis City and talking to 130 students about a career in their respective construction trades!

CCDI ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

Thank you to all the company sponsors, participants and volunteers who helped to make the 7th Annual CCDI Golf Tournament fundraiser at Glen Echo Country Club a success. We had a fantastic turnout of 116 golfers and over 150 people who attended our dinner program. A very big thank you to our keynote speaker, Dr. Joylynn Pruitt Adams, Superintendent of Riverview Gardens School District for speaking to our guests and to all of our partners and friends that came out to celebrate the mission and success stories of CCDI. It certainly takes a village and we could not build the foundation for change without you! We hope you can join us at our 8th Annual Golf Tournament this year on Tuesday, October 3 at Glen Echo Country Club.

SPONSORSHIPS

$20,000 Event Sponsor

• One Foursome

• 12 extra cocktail hour tickets

• Four hole signs

• Featured spotlight on CCDI website & marketing materials

$10,000 Cocktail Hour Sponsor

• One Foursome

• 8 extra cocktail hour tickets

• Two hole signs

$5,000 Gold Sponsor

• One Foursome

• 4 extra cocktail hour tickets

• Hole signage

$2,500 Major Sponsor

• 4 cocktail hour tickets

• Hole signage

$1,000 Hole Sponsor

• 2 cocktail hour tickets

• Hole signage

THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 SPONSORS

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CCDI STUDENT SIGNUP

SCAN THE QR CODE TO COMPLETE OUR 2023-2024 STUDENT SIGN UP FORM

Saturday Construction Academy classes are designed to expose students to career pathways in construction. Each monthly session focuses on: soft-skill and career development preparation, hands-on-learning projects or community service activities, professional option & trade option guest speakers, field trips and site visits to construction projects to learn about companies and career opportunities in the St. Louis area.

VISIT CCDI.ORG TO GET INVOLVED

2023 ACADEMY DATES

SEPTEMBER 23

OCTOBER 14

NOVEMBER 18

DECEMBER 16

Our CCDI community is vibrant and collaborative. Through the support of our partners and the efforts of our participants, CCDI has grown and proved that bringing positive change through workforce development is possible. If you are interested in joining our CCDI community, explore out the great opportunities we offer.

PARTNERS MENTORS DONATE COMMITTEES

This program would not be possible without our partnerships with local companies. If your company is interested in taking students for job shadowing, summer interns or full-time hires, contact CCDI.

Our mentors provide their time, energy and resources to help our program and our participants. CCDI relies on industry leaders to mentor our students. CCDI is always recruiting those interested in becoming mentors.

Join one of the following CCDI Committees: Mentorship & Academy Committee | Education & Scholarship Committee | Trades & Retention Committee | Fundraising & Marketing Committee

Let’s empower communities — together. Your sponsorship makes a real, lasting impact in the lives of our future workforce. We thank you for your support. To make an online donation please click below.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF CCDI, PLEASE CONTACT RACHEL BOEMER AT RACHELBOEMER@CCDI.ORG.