Advent Enterprises, Inc., a 2002 HUD YOUTHBUILD grantee, for developing and implementing the Columbia Builds Youth YOUTHBUILD Program, Columbia, Missouri. The program has produced three new single-family homes for low-income families in Columbia and achieved an 88% percent employment rate for its graduates.

Pictured (from left to right): Roy E. Pierce, HUD St. Louis Field Office Director; Dee Ann Ducote, Acting Director of HUD's St. Louis Community Planning and Development CPD program, and Gary Taylor, Director of Training, Advent Enterprises

Participants in Advent Enterprises' "Columbia Builds Youth" YOUTHBUILD Program

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