There are many people in dire need of a decent job. Some of them have extremely difficult challenges to finding good employment; like ex-offenders and rehabilitated addicts. I have to pause here and state that it is not our personal piety or goodness that moves us to do this or any good deed we do. It is in our weakness and frailty that God's strength is made perfect and His compassion for others overpowers our fear and selfishness. The love of God, found in the grace of Jesus Christ, compels us to share the spiritual hope that is within us, but that love also sees the physical needs and because of Christ in us, He moves us with compassion to do something about it.
Applicant qualification is based more on attitude and willingness to work than on academic ability. All rules and regulations of the school must be strictly adhered to. A humble, obedient and teachable attitude is the top requirement.
Safety for staff, students and customers is the top priority and will not be sacrificed regardless of other apparent needs. Professionalism and quality workmanship is required of all students before moving them to the customer repair area. Certification of experience and aptitude in each specific job is required before students work on customer's cars, and then under close supervision and quality control.
Graduation requirements include qualities of attitude, courtesy and professionalism necessary to excel in the job market. We not only want to teach a trade, our goal is for God to transform lives. For most people, it takes the power of God and a new creation in Christ to break the cycle of crime, homelessness and/or addiction.
Training is available free of charge to underprivileged applicants including low-income, orphaned, homeless, abused, youth in crisis and ex-offenders. Recovering "addicts" wishing to enroll in the automotive program may be required to graduate from a program like Teen Challenge, unless we have the means to staff and house a similar program.
The trade school incorporates a public repair shop where students get real work experience apprenticing under skilled technicians. Training for some would be not only in the shop but also in the office. Depending on their aptitude we would teach the technical diagnosis, repair and business skills they need to work at or run an auto repair business. This includes teaching whatever level of computer skills their potential job target would need.
After two years of actually being on the payroll as an apprentice technician (though earnings may not be significant) the student would have the two years work experience qualifying them for ASE certification. We would help with test preparation for the ASE examinations.
A tool box is included in the program containing enough tools to get started.
We focus on customer relations; service writing and sales with advance training available in bookkeeping, taxes, marketing and pricing principles as they specifically relate to the auto repair industry. Most of the student's time is spent in the office doing live work with customers and managing employees.
In addition to full time staff, we utilize video instruction to save time, cut costs and to aid future replication of the school in new localities. We encourage church participants in our Revive-A-Car Garage days to find Christian professionals in their congregation or the general community to provide part time volunteer tutoring.
The school itself focuses on vocational training not rehabilitation. Substance abuse issues must be resolved before attendance. Regular drug testing is required. Confirmed failure of drug testing or alcohol abuse will result in immediate expulsion and recommendation of teen challenge or our in-house program if available.
If you, your son, daughter or acquaintance wants a career in auto repair and you'd like them to get a Christian vocational education, then we can help you too. The same program is available at a reasonable cost. It costs less because you will be gaining real work experience while you learn new things. Part of your training cost for the new things you are learning is deferred by the work you produce on jobs you have already learned. This takes longer to learn everything, but costs less and gets the skill and knowledge deeper. And when you are finished, you have work experience and certification, not just a diploma.
Local 2 year automotive training programs can total $50,000 and there is no real work experience. Our program includes theory and hands on shop training and only costs $10,000 a year.
Videographer Scholarship: If you are computer savvy and like to make videos but realize you can't make a living doing that :( We have a deal for you :) We want to videotape all our instruction and organize it on a Google Docs table that we use for certification of students. Beside each car job will be a link to the training video for that job. Pretty simple but potentially very effective. If you'd like to learn to fix cars and you can help us by videoing and editing some of the car instruction, loading and linking it to the Google Docs, then you get a free ride in the program. Of course we'll help you get set up with the structure, and you can add new car jobs as we go. If you're good at it and with the cars, you'll VERY likely end up with a good paying job at CarScope.