Float Home Alaska
Life Skills
Healing Takes time. Life Skills takes time. We provide a place and hands on experience to help the Veterans for dozens of new life skills. We help teach and provide real-world, hands on training and practical life skills. Building confidence in real life-skills that can help land a job where ever the Veteran Settles down. Having job skills and confidence to start over is part of the recovery process.
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Electrical
Teaching Off-Grid options like Solar, Wind-Mills, Inverters, 12v, 24v, 48v, BMS, MPPT, cabling, crimping, LifePO4 batteries. This is how we teach the Veterans to live off-grid and to learn new career options. We also teach basic home electrical, 120 v, outlets, breakers, cabling and safety codes.
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Plumbing
Plumbers will be needed in any economy. We teach planning, PSI, water pressure, fitters, water collection systems, installing shower's, bathtubs, pumps, sinks and more. These skills can help a Veteran into a new career.
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Gardening
As food prices soar and become less available Learning basic gardening canning, smoking, pickling, fishing, crabbing, hunting, and gardening are all ways to keep a healthy diet in any economy. The importance of growing your own food and medicine allows for a healthy body as part of our Veterans recovery process.
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Outdoor Recreation
For those that want more hands on and enjoy the real reason people come to Alaska, to be outdoors. Fishing for King Salmon, giant Alaskan Halibut, crabbing, clamming, shrimping is both fun and trains for careers in Alaska. Sportsman can get certified in just a year or 2 and land jobs all over Alaska and other outdoor programs. As well as kayaking, canoeing, hikes, camping, trail blazing and dozens of other fun out door activities. Being outdoors, enjoying nature, being active. These things provide healthier recovery environment than stuck in doors, trapped by 4 walls, stuck in a bed or a chair, in another group therapy session.
