Friends of the Carpenter, 1600 W 20th St, Vancouver, WA 98660, US

Willamette Carpenters Training Center is a nonprofit organization that provides apprenticeship and skills advancement training programs for carpenters, millwrights, pile drivers, scaffold erectors, trade show exhibition workers, and interior and exterior specialists. It offers education and qualification classes for scaffold erectors and users, as well as rigging, forklift and boom truck operators. The organization additionally provides classroom instruction and training curriculum in the fields of construction, freight handling, carpet laying, decoration, rig equipment, pipe and drape setup, and exhibition and modular system installation and dismantling. It also offers skills development programs in the areas of drywall, acoustical ceilings, metal framing, raised floors and lathing systems. Willamette Carpenters Training Center maintains one of its locations in Portland Ore.