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2024 NWFA Expo Aims to Raise the Bar Among Hardwood Flooring Professionals​

At the 2024 NWFA Expo, Carlos Mongalo was honored with the Emerging Leader Award. Mongalo is the program manager for the National Flooring Contractors Apprentice Program. Photo: Floor Trends & Installation.
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About Us

The National Flooring Contractor Apprenticeship Program is a 501c3 nonprofit aimed at developing high-skilled floor installers. The goal is to simultaneously enrich the lives of young adults by giving them access to family sustaining careers, and helping the floor covering industry source the skilled labor that is vitally needed. 

NFCAP’s Mission

The floor covering industry is facing a vast shortage of skilled labor. It is forecasted that the industry needs 180,000 new skilled flooring installers in the next decade to stabilize it. The NFCAP will fill the markets vast need by promoting the flooring trade to national vocational schools to seek for the next generation of flooring installers and become a major feeder for the floor covering industry. 

The NFCAP’s program starts with identifying individuals from vocational schools whom are potentially interested in pursuing a career in the floor covering industry. These students receive basic training from manufactures ( Customs, Bostik, Bona, Uzin, Ardex, DuraSeal, etc.) to identify if they find interest in the flooring trade. Those individuals who are interested move forward with the apprenticeship program. Apprentices will spend 3-4 years On the Job Learning and get certified by prestigious floor associations (CFI, NWFA, NTCA, NAFCT, FCICA) and receive a certificate of completion from DOL.

Our ultimate mission is to provide individuals from low income communities with an economic development opportunity in becoming a flooring apprentice to become journeyman and potentially start their own business, which will produce generational wealth. For this reason, NFCAP works with employers, floor-training associations, vocational schools and other schools, and unites the key players to create a pipeline of professional and highly-skilled flooring installers. In this way, NFCAP aims to build futures from the floor up.

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LL Flooring | NFCAP — A Partnership to Build the Next Generation of Flooring Installers

Explore how, LL Flooring, in partnership with the National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program, is laying down the foundations for the next generation of the flooring trade that will be installing the floors of the future.
LL Flooring Partners with NFCAP to help train Flooring installers

LL Flooring Partners with NFCAP to help train Flooring installers

LL Flooring Partners with NFCAP to Help Train Flooring Installers As the home-improvement industry is booming, it’s harder to meet skilled labor demands. LL Flooring has partnered with the National Flooring Contractors’ Apprentice Program (NFCAP) to offer pro partners trade labor with government…

NFCAP’s Cohort 2 Training Session at Gary’s Job Corps

NFCAP’s Cohort 2 Training Session at Gary’s Job Corps

National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program Active in Florida Neenah, WI, March 17, 2020-Robert Blochinger has been meeting with Job Corps Center in Miami and Job Corps Association in Washington, D.C. to present the National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program (NFCAP)…

NAFCT Partners with NFCAP for Installation Apprenticeship program

NAFCT Partners with NFCAP for Installation Apprenticeship program

NAFCT Partners With NFCAP For Installation Apprenticeship Program NFCAP is formed to train and educate students, both male and female, into the flooring installation trade. This group is made of industry veterans brought together to facilitate the installation shortage…

NFCAP is now at
North Texas Job Corps, McKinney

After Gary’s Job Corps in San Marcos, Texas, NFCAP (National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program) is now available at North Texas Job Corps Center, McKinney, TX. With a grand ribbon cutting ceremony on 28th February 2023, NFCAP team started the journey to provide NextGen training and certification for pre-apprenticeship programs to the North Texas Job Corps center students. Come join us, and discover what we can achieve together!

What are the components of a Registered Apprenticeship?

BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT

Employers are the foundation of every Registered Apprenticeship program.

STRUCTURED ON-THE-JOB TRAINING

Apprentices receive on-the-job training from an experienced mentor for typically not less than one year.

RELATED INSTRUCTION

Apprenticeships combine on-the-job learning with technical education at community colleges, technical schools. apprenticeship training schools, provided on-line or at the job site.

REWARDS FOR SKILL GAINS

Apprentices receive increases in wages as they gain higher-level skills.

NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CREDENTIAL

Registered Apprenticeship programs result in a nationally-recognized credential - a 100% guarantee to employers that apprentices are fully qualified for the job.

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NFCAP Students Share Their Flooring Installation Journeys

Four National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program (NFCAP) students graduated from the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas, to join the next generation of tile setters. Three of the students are completing their apprenticeships with J&R Tile, a five-star commercial tile contractor in San Antonio, Texas, and one has returned home to work with her uncle’s construction company.


LL Flooring Partners with NFCAP to Help Build the Future of Flooring

As the first national retailer to partner with the apprenticeship program, LL Flooring will connect NFCAP apprentices across the country with participating flooring contractors who will mentor the flooring industry’s next generation of professional installers. LL will also be donating product, providing access to its website and marketing channels, advising on the curriculum, and providing direct financial support to grow the program.

LL Flooring, NFCAP Launch Training Facility in San Marcos, Texas

LL Flooring and the National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program (NFCAP) joined forces to launch a training facility at the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas. Participating Gary Job Corps students began the NFCAP pre-apprenticeship program this spring, preparing for future apprenticeship placements with LL FLooring’s network of independent contractors.


Become a Sponsor

Patrons of open heart education and training, like you, are essential to our programme. In order to operate our programme, we need funding to pay for books, training tools, materials, tuition, instructor fees, and organisational operating costs. Here’s where we really appreciate your help.

Why Sponsoring?

The students enrolled in this program are from different communities of society and are often faced with the challenge of securing cost-based financial support for the programme. Your assistance is greatly appreciated as there are various expenses, such as extra exam materials and evaluation and assessment cost, administrative costs, that are not covered by their programme budget.

Become a NFCAP Member

In order to increase the program’s success and offer value to the industry by bringing in trained and qualified flooring installers, we are asking for your participation with our programme. You would find more information in our employers brochure which can be downloaded below

If you own a flooring business, or you are a founder or a contractor, or have an excellent organizational network, we will love to have you as a member with NFCAP. Our members enjoy various benefits, including, advanced on-hand training methods, trained and certified flooring professionals, State and Federal Tax credits, Tools and Advanced Equipment support and many more.