>> reporter: the target is individuals over the age of 18 who ought to be entering the workforce but who have little hope of doing so because they dropped out of school or wound up in jail or had some other problem. sean gomez for example had been in and out of prison for robbery by the time he was 25. >> there was no work. it was nonexistent to me for people like myself. >> if we follow the basics and always do the basics right, everything else falls in place. >> then he ran into sylvester, rekroouts students for the construction gateway program. scouring homeless shelters, unemployment lines. >> i look for two things, a student i feel will benefit from this, and a second one which is just as important, is an individual that is going to be a good employee. >> reporter: once in, they're tauth the boot camp basics of construction work, showing up on time, doing what you're told, the language of tools and rules of building. all with the goal of helping not