Training

Mission

MGST mission is to help underserved people build healthy communities, through education and sustainable development. 

Vision

We envision resilient people in healthy and sustainable housing being the catalyst for a better community.

Company Overview 

Our company strives to address the needs of our youth by using the three principles of sustainability: 

•     Economic
•     Social
•     Environmental

Economically: Our job and career pathway program will prepare and guide youth into family sustaining employment.  We will accomplish this by building and enhancing our youth’s essential skills in job readiness, financial literacy, environmental literacy, career planning and customer services. 

Socially: Our goal is to ensure that the youth are informed and engaged members of society. This will be accomplished by addressing emotional needs through one-on-one/group counseling, life skills and civic education, which will actuate community involvement and stewardship. They will become knowledgeable about the community in terms of its economic conditions, political structure, norms and values. We expose youth to societal and ecological theories helping them to understand the larger physical and social environment. 

Environmentally: We address our youth’s living needs by housing them in multi-family and/or single family homes that utilizes the most cutting edge green and energy efficient technology. Our goal is to revitalize communities while remaining socially inclusive and economically viable. By reducing the carbon footprint of the communities in which we serve, and educating its residents, we create healthy homes and support the green economy.

Training Service Description 

Overview

Our training classes are structured to run for a minimum of 4 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks but can be customized for any of our clients to meet their needs.  Trainees can receive training in the topics listed under both essential and life skills but can but customized based on our clients’ needs and resources.   We are also focused on keeping our class sizes small 10 -15 students because we understand that our population may need more one on one attention and assistant throughout the training.  

Essential skills

Job Readiness:  This course will prepare people for employment based upon possession of necessary work skills, social competence, job seeking and interview skills.

Financial Literacy: Trainees will develop a set of skills and knowledge that allows them to make informed and effective decisions with all of their financial resources. 

Environmental Literacy: This course will help trainees think about the interconnectedness between natural, built, and social environment while exploring how humans impact these systems. This course will also expose trainees to the different aspects of green construction including energy auditing, solar, geothermal, green roofing, green landscaping, rain gardens and bioswale. 

Introduction Construction: Basic construction competencies and demonstrate basic hands-on skills necessary to work in the field of construction.  Trainees will also be introduced to the skills necessary for home inspections and determining potential structural failures, energy loss and mechanical hazards. Topics that will be covered in this course include an overview of attic/basement structures, and electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems.

Deconstruction: Deconstruction is the selective dismantling or removal of materials from buildings before or instead of some elements of demolition.  Over four days of instruction, students will learn proper handling of tools and equipment, deconstruction sequencing and procedures, and worker safety. The course will include one day of field experience. 

Customer Service: Trainees will learn transferable skills that will help them to obtain family sustaining employment in a wide array of occupations.  

Career Planning: An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop students’ core academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with continuous education, training; and place them in high-demand, high-opportunity jobs. This initiative consists of a partnership among universities, community colleges and local schools, workforce and economic development agencies, employers and labor groups.

Life Skills

Counseling: We assist and guide student in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems. Using individual and group methods, our ultimate goal is the help our students get from where you are in life now to where you want to be in the future. Our emphasis will be on building self-esteem and coping mechanisms as a way to sustain independence.

Wellness: Students learn nutrition, meal preparation and grocery shopping, the importance of proper hygiene, sex education and physical fitness. We also incorporate proper house cleaning methods and home maintenance to ensure that trainees maintain a clean and healthy home.

                       Relationship Building: Trainees learn how to create and maintain healthy family, platonic, and romantic relationships.  They also learn and develop conflict resolution and enhanced coping skills. 

                      Civic Education: Trainees learn how government operates on the local, state, and national level and the importance of being an engaged citizen.