Transform Your Future in 16 Weeks
Empowering individuals with no experience to gain hands-on sign & lighting skills, certifications, and the opportunity to achieve direct employment through an immersive, externship-connected training program.
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About Our Training Center
The Sign & Lighting Workforce Training Center is a Native-owned and woman-owned workforce training program dedicated to opening a direct path into the sign and lighting industry — regardless of background or experience. Our 16-week program combines structured classroom instruction with hands-on training using real sign and lighting materials, tools, and equipment. Students earn four industry credentials: CPR/First Aid, OSHA 10 Construction, Aerial Lift (MEWP) Operator, and Cal/OSHA Qualified Rigger Level 1. Our curriculum is led by Program Director Andy Jones, who brings 50+ years of hands-on industry experience to every cohort.
The final four weeks place students directly with our confirmed externship partners — established sign and lighting companies that hold first-right-of-hire on SLWTC graduates. Upon completion, students leave the program credentialed, equipped with their own work-ready tool bag, and connected to a real pipeline into the trade.
We are built for the people most often overlooked by traditional training programs: veterans, people in recovery, justice-impacted individuals, Native community members, and career changers ready to learn a skilled trade.
Comprehensive Job Training Services
We offer a full suite of workforce training solutions: from foundational safety certifications to hands-on technical skill-building, and industry externships.
Safety Certifications
Earn CPR/First Aid, OSHA 10 Construction, Aerial Lift (MEWP) Operator, and Cal/OSHA Qualified Rigger Level 1.
Hands-On Skills Training
Practice with real sign materials and professional tools to build genuine, job-ready skills.
Externships & Industry Connections
Four weeks on real job sites with confirmed employer partners holding first-right-of-hire.
Credentialed. Equipped. Connected.
Earn the certifications, build the skills, take home the tools — and start your career in the sign and lighting trade.
Our Story
We are Andrea and Andy Jones. Andy is a third-generation tradesman with 45+ years in the sign and lighting industry — a family craft slipping away without a formal pipeline.
Andrea, a Native American woman with 20+ years of administrative expertise, works with men and women in recovery and sees the need for a real pathway firsthand.
We see the need. We have the skills. We are building SLWTC to strengthen our community — together.