Overview: The painting trade is offered at Wolf Creek Job Corps for students interested in entry-level positions as a painter. There are two levels of training offered.

In Level I, Students learn employability skills, safety, lead hazard awareness, trade basics, tools and equipment, surface preparation - paint, paints and coatings, and spray painting.

In Level II, students continue their exploration of general safety, general knowledge, materials used, tools and equipment, surface preparation, application of paints and coatings, drywall, wall covering, spray painting techniques and procedures, lead hazard awareness, and employability skills.

Instructor:Marti Fagin comes to Wolf Creek Job Corps with 30 years of experience as a commercial, residential, and industrial union painter. She has worked mostly in Oregon, but put in time as a painting foreman in the shipyards of San Diego, California. Her teaching career began three years ago in Portland when she taught at the union apprenticeship program. She takes her job seriously and wants to communicate a strong work ethic to her students.

TARS: TARS, training achievement records, are used to track a student's completion of the specific skills needed to demonstrate proficiency in the duties and tasks used in an area of competency. This is an open entry and exit program wherein students progress at an individual pace. When a skill is demonstrated the instructor grades the student's achievement as 1 exposed/not proficient, 2 proficient and 3 proficient and able to teach others.

Enrollment: Painting is a 20-slot program.

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