ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A pre-apprenticeship program in Rochester has a new home, Multi-Craft Apprenticeship Preparation Program. The organization held a ribbon cutting at 400 Central Avenue Tuesday. The entrance is on Joseph Avenue. The building is a 54,000-square-foot space, and Monroe County awarded MAPP $1.2 Million in ARPA funds for the purchase. The program itself is a 10-month intensive. "We go through everything from painting to electrical work, carpentry, plumbing, pipe fitting, we do it all to give you a broad sense of what you like or don't like," says executive director Kareem Berry. Once a student completes the program, they are fast-tracked to a local apprenticeship program... And on to a better life. "Nothing stops a bullet like a job, and it gets you straight out of poverty," Berry said. Rob Smith is a graduate of the program and the current training coordinator. He and the students at MAPP will be rehabbing this old manufacturing space. Berry says MAPP will do 85% of the work themselves. Smith said this on what having a good paying and consistent job means to him: "Being able to have my own financial status, being able to afford things on my own, having a clearer mentality, mentally I'm great." Oher community organizations — CTC and Untapped Ministries — will also make the space home once the renovations are complete.