UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the

Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Photo: Interfaith website.

August 2018

302-654-2880

LEEP:
letsgetours@gmail.com
Executive Summary
Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware (ICHDE) is a non-profit organization based in
Wilmington, DE. Founded in 1968, it serves low and moderate-income families with an array of
home ownership services, including default counseling, financial education, credit management
and credit repair, and it has been an affordable housing developer.

Interfaith has also established a workforce development program, the HomeWorks Construction
Employment and Training Program (HCET), to train ex-offenders for careers in construction.
HomeWorks has been partially funded by the Delaware Department of Labor.

Unfortunately, there are many problems with how the HomeWorks program is administered. We
have found documents that show that one project in the Dunleith neighborhood was mishandled
and resulted in county violations. Furthermore, interviews over the past few months with more
than a dozen workers who enrolled in the program or worked directly with Interfaith staff have
found the following problems:

 Inadequate Classroom Training: Workers report that they received fewer days of
classroom training than they were promised, and the training was very basic, like
“watching videos.” Several said they watched YouTube videos on their own to learn more.
 Unmet Promises: Trainees were led to believe that they would obtain a high level of
construction skills. Instead they often performed low-skilled work with inadequate
training on the job sites.
 Exaggerated Value: Trainees were led to believe that they would receive a widely
recognized certificate that would enable them to find a job, but workers don’t believe it
turned out this way.
 Unpaid Work: Workers report doing many days of work for which they were unpaid. A
standard arrangement was that workers would perform five days of work in a week, but
only be paid for two or three, with the other days called “training.”
 Low Wages: When workers were paid, it was only $10/hour, which is a poverty level wage.
 Worker Misclassification: Workers report being forced to fill out 1099 forms so they
would be paid as independent contractors before being assigned to work with a
contractor.
 Inadequate Supervision: Workers report a lack of supervision on the job sites. In a number
of cases they were given instructions or brief training and then left essentially on their
own.

2 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

  Unsafe Work: Workers report unsafe working conditions on the job site. One example is
workers were handling asbestos without proper training and safety equipment. This
debris was also just discarded in a dumpster.
 Conflict of Interest: The program works with several contractors owned by Interfaith or
associated with Interfaith staff, representing a possible conflict of interest. Additionally,
workers reported that one project involved the remodeling of the Interfaith office.
 No Connection to Apprenticeship: The workers were trained in what the Home Builders
Institute calls a “pre-apprenticeship” program, but weren’t directed afterwards toward a
registered apprenticeship program.
 No Job Placement: Workers were led to believe that they would obtain one year of
construction employment after the program, but none of the workers we interviewed
have received that amount of work after the program ended.
 Deceptive Claims to the Public: One worker reports participating in a phony insulation
demonstration for the Governor and other elected officials where he felt obligated to
exaggerate the skills he had learned. He believes this was done so that Interfaith would
continue to receive more state funding. Furthermore, Interfaith appears to be boosting
their program completion rates to make the program look better.

Broken Promises
Interfaith is running a program that is similar to a “construction readiness” or “pre-
apprenticeship” program. This kind of program is supposed to train participants to be ready for
a real construction apprenticeship program that will further enhance their skills. However,
HomeWorks has no connection to a further apprenticeship program. Moreover, Interfaith
appears to be misrepresenting their program to participants as if it was a full apprenticeship
program that taught advanced level construction skills. Several workers state how Interfaith
made exaggerated claims about how much they would learn. Furthermore, there is a real lack of
transparency in how the program is administered. Many program participants were unclear
about the details of how this program worked.

When you talk to the workers, their disappointment is clear. They were excited about a training
program that could teach them the skills and give them a credential to help them get back into
the workforce with a good paying, family supporting construction career. Instead they were
rushed through inadequate training and then brought all over town to unsafe construction
projects where they performed mostly low-skilled, insufficiently supervised work, which was

3 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

often unpaid. Then afterwards, they were dumped into the low wage, unsafe, non-union
residential construction market.

There is a real need for quality programs to assist formerly incarcerated people back into the
workforce. Unfortunately, it appears that Interfaith misled the program trainees, using them as
cheap and often free labor for their projects around Wilmington, including work on the Interfaith
office itself. Interfaith failed to develop them into construction workers with certified and
recognized skills. Interfaith is using taxpayer funding to take advantage of workers with criminal
backgrounds who have a lack of employment options and are trying to turn their lives around.

Recommendations
 Honesty: Workers should be told what the program will deliver without
exaggerations.
 Full Classroom Training: Workers should get the full amount of classroom training
they are promised.
 Living Wages: Workers should be paid at least $15/hour for all project work.
 Full Wage Payment: Workers should be paid for every hour they work on job sites.
Workers in past classes should be made whole for all the unpaid hours they worked.
 Employee Status: Workers should be classified as employees of the contractors they
are working for, with all standard payroll deductions and workers compensation.
 Transparency: Workers and funding agencies should be provided with regular,
written information on their hours worked, payments made, deductions from their
paycheck, project locations and the contractors who employed them.
 Adequate Supervision: Workers on the job site should have a supervisor present at all
times when they are working.
 Health & Safety: Workers should have a safe work environment and receive all
necessary safety training and personal protective equipment.
 Connections to Apprenticeship: Workers should not be dumped straight into the job
market, but should be directed into an apprenticeship program where they can
further develop their skills towards a sustainable construction career.
 The Delaware Department of Labor should engage in more thorough oversight of
these programs and have better enforcement of all applicable labor laws.

4 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Introduction
Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware
(ICHDE) is a non-profit organization based in
Wilmington, DE. Founded in 1968, it serves
low and moderate-income families with an
array of home ownership services, including
default counseling, financial education,
credit management and credit repair.1
Interfaith has also been an affordable
housing developer in the Wilmington area.2
Its Executive Director is Gary T. Pollio.3
Interfaith has established a workforce
development program, the HomeWorks
Construction Employment and Training
Program (HCET). Interfaith describes
HomeWorks as a “paid, on-the-
job, residential construction theory and
practice training for reentering ex-offenders
who originate from, reside in, or reside
within a community in which ICHDE is
conducting affordable housing development
and/or community revitalization efforts.”4
HomeWorks uses the Home Builders
Institute (HBI) curriculum and combines
classroom training sessions with on-site
construction work in the Wilmington metro
5 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
area. Interfaith works with a number of
contractors who “provide on-site, on-the-
job training, with supervision of an HCET
Trainer. Successful completion results in
industry-recognized HBI certification(s).”5
The program is run by Danielle M. Brothers,
MS, the HomeWorks Program Director, and
Tyron Clemmons, the HomeWorks
Education and Training Specialist.6
Formally launched in 2016, the HomeWorks
program has received funding from the
Delaware Department of Labor (DDOL) and
the state’s Criminal Justice Council.7
Interfaith received a small, four month,
$20,000 DDOL Today’s Reinvestment
Around Industry’s Needs (TRAIN) Planning
Grant in 2016 which helped them develop
the HomeWorks program.8 The DDOL was
interested in funding the development of
“Strategic Workforce Training Plans that
meet employers’ workforce needs, advance
the skills of Delaware workers, grow the
state’s economy, and increase sustainable
employment for working families.”9
Interfaith stated in its application the
following goals (see Figure 1):10
Figure 1
Interfaith then received a one year,
$167,260 TRAIN Implementation Grant from
DDOL later in the year, which ran from July
2016 through June 2017.11 The grant
agreement stated that the goal was to
“partially fund the Home Works
Construction Service Training Program New
Castle County.”12 The grant application also
mentions that Interfaith received $10,000
from the U.S. Probation Office. A letter from
that office included with the application
states that the funds are to pay for some of
the wages of the program participants.13
In its grant proposal, Interfaith proposed to
train three cohorts of 10 ex-offenders in four
month training cycles. Perhaps because it
received less funding than it requested, the
program launch announcement in
November 2016 stated that it would work
with 20 participants.14
The grant agreement states that program
participants would receive three weeks of
construction classroom theory training
based on the Home Builders Institute Pre-
6 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
Apprenticeship Certificate Training (PACT)
curriculum, at 20 hours per week. The
participants would then receive 13 weeks of
on-the-job training at various construction
projects “owned and site-controlled” by
Interfaith. During those weeks, participants
would still have classroom training several
afternoons each week.
The grant application lists seven
construction contractors who would be a
“training partner and potential employer” of
workers in the HomeWorks program. These
contractors would work with two program
participants on each construction site.
Participants would receive what Interfaith
calls a “stipend” of $10/hour. Monthly
financial reports submitted to the DDOL
state that the program budgeted $78,000 for
“participant wages” and $1,500 for
“participant fringes.”15 This $78,000 figure is
consistent with 20 participants being paid
$10/hour for 30 hours of work for 13 weeks,
or $3,900 per participant.
The contractors listed are:
 Petrucon Construction Company, Inc.
 CLA Construction, LLC
 Integrity Construction
 TAG Construction, LLC
 3 Guys and a Hammer, LLC
 GO 2 GUYS Remodeling, LLC
 Santos All Phase Construction, LLC
All contractors signed a “Memorandum of
Understanding” (MOU) for participation in
the HomeWorks program. Integrity
Construction is listed in Interfaith’s 2016 IRS
990 form as 100% owned by Interfaith.16
The company’s contact person listed in the
proposal is Darlene Sample, Interfaith’s
Chief Financial Officer.17 Moreover, the
company is registered with the Delaware
Department of State, Division
Corporations as Integrity Construction, Inc.
at Interfaith’s address.18
An Interfaith Project: Problems in Dunleith
Interfaith has had a number of projects to
rehabilitate houses in the Wilmington
suburb of Dunleith.22 This work is in
cooperation with New Castle County as part
of an effort to redevelop houses along the
Route 9 corridor.23 In fiscal year 2018, the
New Castle County Department
Community Services has given
7 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
The contact person listed for 3 Guys and a
Hammer is Tyrone Clemmons, Interfaith’s
HomeWorks Education & Training Specialist
(listed on the Interfaith website as Tyron
Clemmons). The company is registered with
the Delaware Department of State, Division
of Corporations as 3 Guys & a Hammer LLC.
The name listed on the registration is Omari
Faust, Interfaith’s Housing Development
Manager (listed on Interfaith’s website as
Omar Faust).19
At least one of the contractors, Petrucon
Construction, has a history of health and
safety violations. Since 2000, the company
had six OSHA inspections and was cited for
six violations, including five Serious and one
Repeat violation. The company has been
fined $12,660.20 An OSHA record for an
of inspection in 2010 indicated that a worker
fell on the construction site. The company
was cited then for two Serious violations,
including for OSHA standard “Duty to have
fall protection”, and fined $5,460.21
$300,000 to Interfaith for this work (see
Figure 2).24
One of the Interfaith houses was located at
409 Morehouse Dr. New Castle County
records show that Interfaith owns this
of property.25 In October 2017, we heard about
over neighbors at 407 Morehouse Dr.
complaining about the demolition work.
Figure 2

Interfaith sent the neighbors a letter a few
months earlier saying demolition was
starting at 409. In an interview, they
reported that there was dust everywhere
and that the contractor was making no
efforts to control it. They often were short of
breath. They reported that workers
sometimes worked late at night and on
weekends. The demolition also caused
ceiling cracks which they had to repair.26
Figure 3
The neighbor reported that the contractor
illegally dumped a large pile of debris in
nearby Surratte Park. A FOIA request to New
Castle County confirms that a crew removed
dumped debris on 10/13/17.27
Another problem at the construction site
was a large hole near the sidewalk that was
not blocked off. Figure 3 shows a photo that
was taken on 11/12/17. The neighbor placed
the caution tape there. There are children in
the area who played near the site and this
was a hazard for them.

An email from an elected official alerted

New Castle County officials about the unsafe
conditions. FOIA records from the County
confirm that an inspection on 11/13/17
found violations that shut down the project
for about two weeks until it passed
inspection on 11/28/17.28 See Figure 4.

8 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Figure 4

On 11/13/17, the county placed an UNSAFE Housing of Delaware promised to make a list
sign at the site which stated “Work of home repairs for him but left work
performed poses a risk to the public. Provide uncompleted.”30
temporary safeguards to protect the public
from the work area.”29 See Figure 5. Figure 5

The sloppy way that this project was handled

appears, based on interviews with workers,
to be typical of an Interfaith project. A
recent news report describes another
project in Dunleith where Interfaith
participated in the renovation of a veteran’s
house but didn’t complete the job. The
article says, “Willis Phelps, Jr., an 80-year-old
Delaware Army National Guard veteran, said
Home Depot and Interfaith Community

Worker Interviews
We interviewed 14 workers from the In the last few months, the problems with
Wilmington area, most of whom are the HomeWorks program have been
formerly incarcerated, and either covered in press articles which substantially
participated in the Interfaith training confirm what the workers report here.31
program or worked at contracting Several workers provided testimony at a
companies associated with Interfaith staff. Delaware Senate Labor Committee hearing
The interviews were conducted in person in May, 2018.32 Overall, 10 of the workers
with video and/or on the phone over several we interviewed have agreed to have their
months in 2018. stories included in this report. Eight agreed
to be identified and the others are identified
as Worker A and Worker B.

9 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Chris Butler
I enrolled in Interfaith’s HomeWorks class
that started in September 2017. However, I
did not finish the program after I got into a
payment dispute with Interfaith.

I worked on the project to remodel the

Interfaith building for a few weeks, which
included working 12 hours on a holiday. They
didn’t pay me for any of those hours. Later
on, a paycheck shorted my hours and the
following week they didn’t have a paycheck
for me at all. I went to the Department of
Labor to complain. As I was filling out the Photo: Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal
paperwork, I was contacted by Interfaith. I
complaining to the DOL by kicking me out of
informed them that I was at the Department
the program. I missed out on at least four
of Labor and they said they would pay me.
more weeks of income.
They paid me for the shorted hours and the
missing paycheck soon after, but they still Months later, after talking to a reporter
owe me money for all of my work. about Interfaith, they contacted me by text
telling me that I could pick up my certificate
However, at that point they stopped
from the office even though I never
communicating with me about projects and
completed the program.
I was effectively out of the program. I believe
that Interfaith retaliated against me for

Kashif Handy33
I was working at the Rose Hill Community
Center when I heard about the program. I
was told that I would be receiving a
carpentry apprenticeship certificate that is
recognized nationwide and I could take the
certificate anywhere in the nation and it
would be recognized. I have children to
support. I enrolled in the class that started
in September 2017 which ran to January
2018. I was promised training as part of the
program. At the orientation, Interfaith
handed out a 16 week training schedule. We
were supposed to be in class for five days a
week during the first two weeks. Then
starting in the third week, we would be in

10 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program


Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal
class for three days and two days working in
the field.
Interfaith didn’t abide by this schedule. In
the first week, we went to work in the field.
We then went back to class for a few days,
but then were sent back out to work on
remodeling the Interfaith building lobby for
three weeks straight. We remodeled the
floor and did painting, cleaning up and
moving things around. From week three we
spent most of our time in the field, we rarely
went back in the classroom, I say from week
three to 11, 12, we probably went in the
classroom about three, four times.
When we started getting paid in week three,
it was for two field days per week, six hours
each day at $10/hour, for a total of $120.
During weeks three to six, we were paid for
only two days each week. During weeks
seven to 10, we were paid for three days of
project work, and then afterwards for five
days per week. But this whole time we were
working nearly every day.
There were no payroll deductions from my
check, just a straight $10/hour of pay. I never
11 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
filled out any employment forms. I am in a
re-entry process and I need a legitimate job
to show that I am working. My wages were
deducted if I had to leave to meet with my
probation officer on Thursdays and Fridays,
the days we were paid for working. I
complained that if I had to miss a day where
we were paid for working, I wouldn’t be
paid, even though I worked earlier that week
on other days.
There was a lack of training and supervision
on the job sites. I worked on a project
putting siding on a house in Jefferson Farms.
We were dropped off by Interfaith’s Tyron
Clemmons and the contractor there showed
us how to put one of the siding pieces on,
and then we were just put to work. I was on
the ladder with no safety precautions. He
just put us out there, I can’t really say they
taught us or trained us.
Another project at a house on Walnut St
involved the removal of an oil tank in the
basement. A lot of oil had spilled and we had
to clean it up and remove the tank. There
was no adequate ventilation and I became
light headed within 10 minutes.
I was involved in two demonstrations for the
Governor who was visiting Interfaith
projects. The first was a framing
demonstration at the Rose Hill Community
Center. The second was an insulation
demonstration at an Interfaith project at 5th
and Washington streets. The Governor and
other elected representatives were there. I
was asked what we learned in the program.
I felt obligated to say that I was proficient in
framing, siding, painting and insulation. This
was not true as I only really knew painting at
the time. The insulation demonstration was
just a demonstration, we didn’t lay any
insulation in there, the appearance was just
so that the governor and his constituents
basically could give us more money, could
fund, lend more funding to Interfaith. It was
explained to me that this was a
demonstration so that we could impress the
governor so we could get more funding for
Interfaith.
I left the program early and found a new job.
After a few weeks, Interfaith’s Tyron
Clemmons called me to find out where I was
working, explaining that he needed the
information so he could get me the
certificate for completion, even though I
didn’t complete the program. In my opinion
I believe they wanted to say that Interfaith
Leonard McGinnis
I enrolled in Interfaith’s first class which
started in May 2016. The class started with
12 trainees and ended with four.
Interfaith promised apprenticeship
approval, 17 weeks of training, paid field
training and job placement. We were
promised a year of employment upon
completion of the training course. I had to
fill out 1099 forms in order to be assigned to
12 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
helped place me in that position, in that job,
to basically use me as an Interfaith success. I
do not feel like an Interfaith success since I
left the program early and am not confident
in what I was supposed to learn.
What was promised to us, we were told that
we would be so knowledgeable that we
could go with a contractor and we wouldn’t
be supervised. I don’t believe that it turned
out that way.
If you’re asking me about the program, what
I would tell somebody, I would tell them it’s
not real. You’re gonna go into this program
believing that you’re gonna learn certain
things and you will not. For anybody who’s
interested in the program, dealing with
Interfaith, basically do it at your own risk, but
know that the legitimacy of the whole
program is shaky, it’s definitely not what
they say it to be, it’s definitely not what it
appears to be on paper.
work with a contractor. Therefore I wasn’t
considered an employee but an independent
contractor.
I did receive 17 weeks of training, but
afterwards I did not get an entire year of
work. I was assigned to a contractor, DMV,
but they ran out of work because the house
was put on hold. I didn’t work for several
months. Omar Faust then hired me at his
company, 3 Guys and a Hammer. But the
work was inconsistent and only lasted for a
few weeks.
Interfaith claimed I was receiving certified
training, but the curriculum seemed high
school based to me. They reviewed ANSI and
OSHA certification, and I am familiar with it,
but don’t believe this training qualifies for
those certifications.
When I started working on projects in the
field I would get what they called three days
of field training and then two days of
working on a project. The field training
involved testing my knowledge, the use of
tools and building techniques. I worked on
projects around the Wilmington area, doing
demolition, framing and hanging drywall,
etc.
Eric Mundy34
I became interested in the Interfaith training
program because I had been working in
construction for more than five years but I
wanted to get a recognized credential to
show employers that I knew the craft. I
enrolled in Interfaith’s second class.
I understood that Interfaith’s program was a
“pre-apprenticeship” program. However, I
was not connected to an apprenticeship
program when the training finished. Me and
the rest of the students were just basically
told a lie.
13 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
A typical day was six to eight hours of work.
Over the five days of work in a week, on
Monday through Wednesday, I did not get
paid. I received $10/hour for the work for
the next two days. There were no payroll
deductions taken out of my check.
I was often doing demolition work and only
had a cheap paper mask. Omar Faust told me
“If you get hurt, you lose your job.”
I would recommend to people, don’t walk
into Interfaith without understanding or
finding out everything about this company
because everything isn’t authentic or
genuine. I received my program certificate
but it has not helped. I was basically trained
for nothing, and it seems my training didn’t
count.
Photo: Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal
Interfaith promised that I would be a
“master carpenter” at the end of the training
and “know how to build a house from the
ground up.”
When you’re in class, you know, you’re
watching videos and then you’re taking a
test with the answers on the board. We were
told that everyone was going to pass the
training.
While on the construction site, I was paid
$10/hour for the work while working for
Interfaith’s contractor Integrity
Construction. However, I was forced to sign
a 1099 form and there were no deductions
for Social Security, Medicare or taxes taken
from my check. There were no child support
deductions as well, which I am required to
pay. Basically we were getting paid under
the table. Interfaith did not explain to
anyone what the form was or its effect for
their employment. I was also not paid for
every day that I worked.
While in the field, I was taken to what I was
told were contractor “side jobs”, meaning
they were not official Interfaith projects. The
government paid me to do the contractors’
job.
There was often intense pressure to work
fast, doing framing, spackling, drywall, and
painting. Since I had more experience than
other trainees, the contractor sometimes
left me in charge of others, coming back
hours later. Instructors would come in and
say “Do this, do that, Eric you got ‘em right?
Yup.” And they’d leave and then, they all be
gone for hours.
14 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
There were problems with health and safety
and lack of training. We were using framing
guns and power saws which trainees didn’t
know how to use properly. Sometimes,
people were hurt banging their hands with
hammers. They were always short on
personal protection equipment like gloves or
masks and nobody had any hard hats.
At a project in Dunleith, we were doing
demolition work and I believe the house had
asbestos tiles in it. Interfaith gave us dust
masks, and a few people had Tyvek suits, but
there weren’t enough for everyone. There
was no training for asbestos removal, and
the debris was just thrown in the dumpster.
I was unhappy with the program and left
early. I’m supposed to be, you know, living a
good life, you know, I know a good craft that
pays well but I’m not seeing the benefits of
that. Interfaith staff contacted me to
convince me to come back, even coming to
my house.
Interfaith guaranteed the participants a year
of work after the program but I don’t think
that anyone received that. I believe I was
misled about how things would turn out for
me. I’m upset because of the fact that
there’s people out here that’s really leading
people on, you know, we got a lot of people
out here just trying to change their life and
you got people whose out here just ruining
people’s lives, it’s ridiculous.
Dale Reed
I enrolled in the Interfaith class but only
lasted about four or five weeks. Interfaith
wanted me to sign a 1099 form. I asked
questions about it and they told me “If you
want to work, this is what you gotta fill out.”
I wanted my mom to look over the form.
They never called me again and I was out of
the program.
When I did work with the program, I worked
five days a week but was only paid for two.
Sometimes my checks would bounce and
Omar Faust wouldn’t show up to pay us. I
received checks from both Interfaith and 3
Guys and a Hammer. I was even paid in cash.
After I left the program, Omar called me a
few months later to see if I wanted to work.
Again I asked Omar a lot of questions, about
W-2 forms and the wage level. I didn’t get
the job for several weeks, I believe, because
I was asking these questions. Eventually he
told me to meet him at a project, and I
started working. I didn’t fill out any W-2
forms. I was asked to bring glasses, gloves
and boots, and was provided with a hard hat.
I started the job with three relatives and
friends. I was asked to meet at the job site at
8:00am. On the first day, my cousin and a
15 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
friend walked off after a few hours of work
because the situation didn’t look good to
them. I stayed for a few days, working five to
six hours/day. My brother stayed longer and
worked there for two to three months.
I met other workers on the job who had been
through the Interfaith training. I was paid
$50 for five hours of work in a day, with no
payroll deductions.
I was forced to use a flimsy wooden ladder
to get to the roof. When I protested I was
told “if you fall, you’re fired.” At a house in
Dunleith, I was doing demolition of a kitchen
and noticed something that looked like
asbestos. I notified Omar who did not
dispute this. Omar asked “Are you gonna get
the asbestos out or are you gonna go
home?” I only had on a paper mask. I have
three kids to support and I wanted to keep
the job and he knew I was in a vulnerable
position.
I only worked for Faust for two days.
Afterwards I was told by my brother that I
wasn’t called back because I asked too many
questions, as far as W-2 and safety
precautions. My brother was told by Omar I
needed to learn how to keep my mouth shut.
Stephon Stewart
I have a wife and three kids and enrolled in
Interfaith’s second class which started in
December 2016. I found out about the
program from my cousin who was in the first
class.
I had to fill out 1099 forms in order to be
assigned to work with a contractor.
Therefore I wasn’t considered an employee
but an independent contractor. My
paycheck came from Interfaith.
I worked at various projects around
Wilmington. On the job site, I would work for
a full week but was only paid for two days.
The other three days were called training
and we were not paid. And for those two
days, I was expecting 16 hours of work but I
only got 12 hours. I estimate that I was paid
a total of about $2,000 during the whole
training.
Ron Wallace
I did not go through the Interfaith program,
but worked for the company of Interfaith’s
Omar Faust for about six months. I had a
felony and was glad to get the job. I knew
about the Interfaith program but was kept
working separate from the guys in the
program.
16 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
I worked on a house on Oak Street that I
considered unsafe. I saw the foundation
falling apart. I was often doing demolition
work and only had a cheap paper mask.
Interfaith promised me a year of
employment after the training. But only
some participants got work after the
program and I don’t think anyone got a full
year. I worked for the contractor Advanced
Property Maintenance for about two
months.
Interfaith told me the program certificate
was recognized “worldwide”, but it doesn’t
carry any weight. I invested over a year in
the program, and I did learn some useful
skills, but I am unsatisfied. I feel that they
just bamboozled us.
I would not recommend that anyone else do
the program. They won’t get anything out of
it.
I was paid $10/hour, but sometimes the
checks were short or I had to wait until the
next week to get paid. Checks also bounced,
and it seems that every week there was a
problem with someone’s check. I was upset
because if I’m working why can’t they make
sure that my pay is there and it’s right?
There were no payroll deductions and I was
considered an independent contractor and
not an employee. Also I still haven’t been
paid for all the work I did and I think he owes
me about $400. After I finished my last job,
Omar disappeared and I never saw him again
and didn’t get paid.
There was no safety training, and the
workers had to take care of each other.
Safety was always an issue but I had good
workers around me and we keep each other
safe. I was mostly doing demolition work but
I had to buy my own masks and gloves.
I felt used by the company and I believe that
I was taken advantage of because of my
criminal record.
Shawn Wilson35
My name is Shawn Wilson and I reside in
New Castle County. I am currently in the
hospital because of breathing problems
which I believe are caused by working for
Interfaith and I cannot attend the State
Senate Labor Committee Hearing. I request
that my statement be read into the record.
I was enrolled in the Interfaith HomeWorks
program from September 2017 to January
2018. I completed the whole program, but I
have not picked up my completion
certificate yet.
At the beginning of the program they gave us
a schedule which outlined the days we
would be in class and the days we would be
17 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
I have been working in construction for
years, and the working conditions are always
bad. You have some people out there that’s
going to go the cheaper route and try to use
and abuse their workers.
I was always paid under the table without
social security deductions, and I have little to
show for my years of work, regarding social
security. This is my life, I’ve been doing
construction all my life and now I have
nothing in the end and that’s a hurtful
feeling.
working in the field. However, soon after we
started, we were taken out of class and sent
to work.
One project was working on the Interfaith
building. I spent about two weeks there
working on the floors, and painting and
framing. I worked for five days each week
but was not paid for all those days. I was only
paid for two days during each of those
weeks. We were angry about that.
I was paid by Interfaith, and it was $10/hour.
In the early weeks of the program, we would
work for five days a week but only be paid
for two days of work, at six hours each day. I
was paid $120 for 12 hours of work.
In later weeks, I was paid for 18 hours of started working for a contractor, but that
work over three days, even though I worked only lasted a week. I was paid $400 for about
five days a week. Toward the end of the 60 hours of work. I was paid in cash, in
program, I was paid for 30 hours of work for twenty dollar bills.
five days of work in a week. There were
I don’t know anyone who finished the
never any payroll deductions, I was just paid
program who got full time work afterwards.
with a check. I do not remember signing any
Some of them got work but it didn’t last long.
employment forms.
I finished the Interfaith program in January.
In the last two weeks of the program I did
About a month ago I started developing
demolition work at two houses in Dunleith.
health problems. I felt shortness of breath
We worked for one week at each house. I
and my back was hurting. I went to the
believe that one of the houses was at 149
hospital. They did an ultrasound which found
Bunche Blvd.
fluid in my lungs, and they drained the lungs.
I was given a Tyvek body suit to wear and a They said I had walking pneumonia. I still
mask like a doctor’s mask. During the have the symptoms now.
demolition there was a lot of dust. The mask
The nurse told me that they wrote the word
didn’t keep out the dust. When I took off the
asbestos in my hospital notes. I’m not sure if
mask my face was white underneath. We
that means they suspect I was exposed to
had to double-bag insulation material
asbestos. I didn’t see the notes. Nobody at
separately and put it aside for a special
Interfaith ever mentioned that we were
pickup. I also saw black mold during the
working on asbestos.
demolition.

In the program I never had a hard hat while

Overall, I feel that I was taken advantage of
working. I don’t think I was well trained. We
by Interfaith. I lost my apartment while
were showed how to do something once and
working with Interfaith since I didn’t get paid
then we would have to figure it out. I did
for all the work I did and I couldn’t pay my
drywall and watched YouTube videos to
rent. But I stayed because I thought it could
learn how to do it. That’s also true for other
be useful and I wanted to complete the
things I did.
program.
They promised that I would get employment
after finishing the program. After I finished, I

18 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Worker A
I was in the second Interfaith HomeWorks
class which started on November 5, 2016. I
saw information about it on Facebook and
heard about it at the Rose Hill Community
Center. I completed the whole class. About
16 or 17 people started the class, but only
five or six finished it.
For the first week we were in the classroom,
learning about tools from a handbook. We
also watched videos about construction.
They took me out of the classroom in the
second week even though they promised us
two weeks of class time.
During the second week, we were sent to a
house on Oak Street which was abandoned,
and I was there for two or three weeks. I
never went back to the classroom. At this
house I did framing and drywall work. There
was a very brief drywall training, and I had to
watch videos on my own time to learn more.
I was also doing floor work, laying tiles. The
floor was loose and shaky, very unstable. We
never completed the floor, and it was half
done when we left the house. I heard later
that the house had been condemned, and
we never went back in. So we were working
for several weeks in an unsafe condemned
house. Also, it was winter time and very cold
and there was no heat even though they
promised there would be heaters.
19 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
They explained there would be no pay for
the first four weeks. Starting in week five, I
was paid $120 each week for several weeks.
The pay rate was $10/hour with no payroll
deductions. I think we should have been paid
more than that because we were working
every day. Everybody was upset about it
because they thought they were supposed
to be getting more. Sometimes we were
waiting for hours after finishing work on
Friday for our checks.
There were weekly timesheets that had my
name on it with the total hours worked,
which I signed at the end of the week and
then got paid. But the number of hours on
the sheet was less than what I worked. In
later weeks I was paid $180 and then $300,
always working every day. There was one
project where Interfaith’s Mont Clemmons
took us to what I believe was a music studio
that he was involved with. We worked there
for a week but I don’t think this was part of
the Interfaith program.
I worked on the demolition of three houses
in Dunleith. I was told by Interfaith’s Omar
Faust that the houses had asbestos in them.
I believe the houses were on Bunche,
Robinson and Morehouse. I had to bring my
own gloves and mask and did not get a
protective suit. Some workers didn’t even
have masks. At first Interfaith provided
masks, but they ran out.
I never had a hard hat for any of these
projects. I finally got one at the graduation
ceremony. I received my certificate but had
to wait several months to get it.
They also promised us that we would get
transportation to and from all the projects
but there were many times when that didn’t
happen and I had to find a ride or take the
bus.
After I finished the program, I was placed
with a general contractor, and worked there
for three to four weeks. I remember the
contractor criticized the Interfaith program,
saying it was not well run or really
recognized. I was paid by that contractor
Worker B
I enrolled in the first Interfaith HomeWorks
class in 2016. The class started with 15
participants and ended with four.
I was paid $10/hour for project work. I had
to fill out a 1099 form and it was explained
to me that this meant I was my own
contractor. I believe that I was paid for all
my work on the projects.
I finished the class but had to wait to get my
certificate. Interfaith said they needed to
20 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
with a personal check at $10/hour. I was not
kept on and then I left construction work.
Interfaith promised me one year of
employment, but I didn’t get that and don’t
know anyone who got steady work
afterwards.
The Interfaith staff didn’t seem to take the
program seriously. Overall I feel that
Interfaith broke their promises of full
employment and the amount of pay. There
was not proper safety gear and I also had to
do work that was not construction-related,
such as cutting grass and picking up leaves. I
believe I was paid about $1,700 total for the
whole program. I would not refer anyone to
the program and feel that they took advantage
of me.
wait because so few of the participants had
graduated from that class.
Interfaith promised me a year of
employment at 40 hours/week after
finishing the program. I had recently got a
new apartment and needed the steady
work. But that didn’t happen. I worked
afterwards with a contractor, but it was not
consistent work, more like two or three
days/week. I left after a few weeks. I don’t
know anyone who got a year of work after
the program.
Issues and Questions
The worker interviews raise a number of important issues with how the HomeWorks program
and its associated contractors operate.

Classroom Hours

Interfaith stated in their grant that
participants would receive 60 hours of
classroom training over the first three weeks
and then two afternoons each week
thereafter. Figure 6 shows what Interfaith
stated in the grant about classroom hours.36
However, most of the workers that we
interviewed reported that they received far
fewer classroom days than what is described
here. Kashif Handy described a promised
classroom schedule that consisted of two
weeks of full time work in the classroom and
then three days in the classroom in the
following weeks. But he reported that he
didn’t get this number of classroom days.
Shawn Wilson and Worker A also report
receiving fewer class days than promised. It
seems that after the classroom training
started, many workers were rushed into the
field to work on projects that needed to be
finished, and were only brought back to the
classroom for a few days after that, if any.

Figure 6

21 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Wages
Workers report being paid $10/hour for
work on construction project sites. However,
they also say they were not paid for some of
the work days. It seems that some days on
the job site were considered “training” even
though in many cases they were doing the
same work. This is at odds with what
Interfaith proposed in the training grant
application, shown in Figure 7.37
Figure 7
Figure 8
Interfaith’s monthly financial reports
submitted to the DDOL state that $78,000
was allocated for “Participant Wages.” As
stated above, this $78,000 figure is
consistent with 20 participants being paid
$10/hour for 30 hours of work for 13 weeks,
which is $3,900 each. Indeed, the May 2017
report stated that up to that point, Interfaith
had paid out $75,815.05 in wages, so by the
end of the grant period in June, Interfaith
would likely have paid out the whole
allocated $78,000.39 But five of the workers
22 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
This statement implies that they would be
paid for all hours on the job site. Moreover,
the proposed budget that Interfaith
submitted also implies payment for all
hours. Figure 8 shows the line from the
budget regarding wages:38
However, nearly all of the workers we
interviewed who had been through the
Interfaith program believe they were not
paid for all their work.
we interviewed, Leonard McGinnis, Eric
Mundy, Dale Reed, Stephon Stewart and
Worker A were participants in the first or
second training which occurred during the
time period of this grant and they reported
not being paid every day they were in the
field. Stephon Stewart completed the
training and estimates that he was paid a
total of about $2,000 during the whole
period. Worker A says he was paid $1,700 for
the whole program. So why weren’t the
workers paid all their money and where did
that money go?
It appears that Interfaith paid the workers
nothing for what they called “training” hours
and a “stipend” for some of their work on
the job sites. As a comparison, a real
apprenticeship program would pay a stipend
for training time and wages for actual work
on the job site. That Interfaith sometimes
uses both the words stipend and wages
makes this more complicated.
In a confusing video interview accompanying
a news article about problems with the
HomeWorks program, Interfaith Executive
Director Gary Pollio made some interesting
comments.40 In defending the program, he
stated that the payments were made
according to timesheets signed by the
participants. “We only transmit the stipend
for the number of hours that the trainee has
already agreed to, they confirmed that they
actually participated.” Pollio went on to
simply define all the work as “training”, even
if it was the same work for which they were
sometimes paid. Pollio also insisted that
they would never hire trainees for real
construction work on their projects, which
contradicts what the workers report.
In the article, Pollio was quoted defining all
the activities as training: “Pollio claimed
23 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
HomeWorks participants were training —
not working — when they were laboring,
unpaid, on construction sites during
‘classroom’ hours, and therefore did not
need to be paid more than the original
schedule indicated.” Pollio also pretends to
be confused about why the workers would
agree to be paid for fewer days than they
worked on a job site. “I can only go by what
evidence I have,” Pollio said. “I can tell you
that if I was on a training site for five days
and I was asked to complete this time sheet
and I didn’t receive the stipend for five days,
I would have said something. Because time
is money.”
Thus Interfaith’s position appears to be that
they could simply define what the workers
were doing on their projects as “training”,
and pay a “stipend” according to the
schedule set by Interfaith. And the workers,
who are in a relatively disempowered
position in their relationship with Interfaith,
signed off on the timesheets which
misrepresented the actual hours worked.
Indeed, Worker A stated that the number of
hours on his timesheet was less than what
he worked. Interfaith now points to those
timesheets as evidence of the number of
hours worked.
Worker Misclassification
Many workers reported that they had to fill
out a 1099 form and be classified as
“independent contractors” before they were
assigned to work with any contractors. This
is a potential “misclassification” which has
serious consequences for workers who will
be unprotected by workers compensation or
unemployment insurance. It impacts the
public because payroll taxes are not
collected from the paycheck. For the
HomeWorks program, this practice may be a
violation of labor law, as there is a strict test
that determines when a worker should be
classified as an independent contractor.41
Eric Mundy reported that Interfaith did not
explain to anyone what the form was or its
ramifications for their employment. Dale
Reed reported that he was told “If you want
to work, this is what you gotta fill out.”
Interfaith has defended this practice. “Pollio
said Interfaith chose the 1099 designation in
24 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
part because it was cheaper. ‘It fit within the
scope of the project that we proposed to the
Department of Labor and fit within the
confines of the costs that were available to
run the program at the level we proposed,’
he said. ‘Otherwise they would all have to
become Interfaith employees and we just
couldn’t do that.’ ”42
However, the Delaware Workplace Fraud
Act states: “An ‘employer-employee’
relationship shall be presumed to exist when
work is performed by an individual for
remuneration paid by an employer, unless to
the satisfaction of the Department the
employer demonstrates that the individual is
an exempt person or independent
contractor.”43 The following box shows the
Act’s definition of exempt person and
independent contractor. Overall, this does
not appear to describe the workers in the
HomeWorks program.
 Delaware Workplace Fraud Act

The Act defines Exempt Person as an individual who:

a. Performs services in a personal capacity and who employs no individuals other than
a spouse, child, or immediate family member of the individual;
b. Performs services free from direction and control over the means and manner of
providing the services, subject only to the right of the person or entity for whom
services are provided to specify the desired result;
c. Furnishes the tools and equipment necessary to provide the services; and
d. Operates a business that is considered inseparable from the individual for purposes
of taxes, profits, and liabilities, in which the individual:
1. Owns all of the assets and profits of the business; and
2. Has sole, unlimited, personal liability for all of the debts and liabilities of the
business; or alternatively, if the business is organized as a single-person
corporate entity, to which sole, unlimited personal liability does not apply,
the individual must be the sole member of said single-person corporate
entity; and
3. For which the individual does not pay taxes for the business separately but
reports business income on the individual's personal income tax return; and

e. Exercises complete control over the management and operations of the business.

Furthermore, the Act defines an Independent Contractor as an individual who:

a. Performs the work free from the employer's control and direction over the
performance of the employee's services; and
b. Is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession
or business; and
c. Performs work which is outside of the usual course of business of the employer for
whom the work is performed.

25 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

Health & Safety
Construction can be dangerous work and it’s
important for workers to have a job site
environment that is as safe as possible,
which includes proper safety training and
equipment.
Interfaith’s MOU with contractors states
that Interfaith will provide “necessary work
‘gear’ to all trainees, including appropriate
boots, hard hats, gloves, etc.”44
Eric Mundy reports that they were always
running out of gloves and masks, and that
nobody had a hard hat. Shawn Wilson and
Worker A said they never had a hard hat
while working. Furthermore, a number of
workers report that they were working
around asbestos without proper equipment.
Mundy thinks there was asbestos on one of
his projects and other workers had on body
suits but there wasn’t one for him, he just
had a mask. The fact that others had body
suits indicate that he should have had one
Connection to Apprenticeship Programs
Interfaith is using the Home Builders
Institute’s Pre-Apprenticeship Certificate
Training (PACT) curriculum. However, a pre-
apprenticeship is designed with the
intention that the trainee will be directed to
an apprenticeship program afterwards.
Figure 9 shows that Interfaith’s grant
26 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program
too. Worker A reports that Omar Faust told
him that the houses they were working on had
asbestos in them and that he had to bring his
own gloves and mask and did not get a
protective suit. Dale Reed reports that he
asked about asbestos on one project and
Faust asked him “Are you gonna get the
asbestos out or are you gonna go home?”
Shawn Wilson believes he may have been
exposed to asbestos. On one project, he had
on a body suit but only a paper mask. And
paper masks aren’t good enough for this kind
of work. This of course is in addition to the
fact that none of these workers were trained
to handle asbestos.
Furthermore, several workers make it clear
that Interfaith had a cavalier attitude toward
safety. Leonard McGinnis reported that
Interfaith’s Omar Faust told him “If you get
hurt, you lose your job.” Dale Reed also
worked for Faust and reported, “I was told if
you fall, you’re fired.”
application stated they should work with just
such a program:45
Moreover, the PACT curriculum information
that was included in the grant application
states: “As its name suggests, PACT training
lays the foundation for participation in an
apprenticeship. An apprenticeship is a
training program that is formally recognized
and administered based on standards or However, none of the workers we
rules approved by the U.S. Department of interviewed who went through the
Labor’s (DOL) Office of Apprenticeship or by HomeWorks program said that they were
a State Apprenticeship Council.”46 directed to or connected with an
apprenticeship program. Instead they were
expected to just find a job.

Figure 9

Program Completion and Employment

The HomeWorks program grant application
stated the following goals for program
completion, “Proposed Outcomes to be
Achieved (i.e. 75% of participants will obtain
a recognized credential/certificate or 80% of
participants will obtain unsubsidized
employment after completion of training
program.”47
Now of course, despite best efforts things
can go wrong in the real world and proposed
objectives may not be achieved. But several
workers report information that suggests
Interfaith may be boosting its numbers to
make the program seem more successful
than it is. According to Eric Mundy,
Interfaith said they were told that everyone
was going to pass the training. Kashif Handy
left the program early and found a new job
and was later contacted by Interfaith’s Tyron
Clemmons to find out where Handy was
working so that he could get the certificate
for completion, even though he didn’t
complete the program. Similarly Chris Butler
was essentially kicked out of the program
after complaining to the Department of
Labor but was then contacted months later
by Interfaith and told that he could pick up
his certificate.
The job placement outcomes are
questionable as well. Stephon Stewart, Eric
Mundy, Shawn Wilson, Worker A and
Worker B report that they don’t think
anyone got a full year of employment after
the program.

27 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

References

1
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/about-us/
2
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/affordable-housing/
3
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/about-us/meet-our-staff/
4
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/workforce-development/. It appears that Interfaith has taken this page
down. It can be found here from July 9, 2018,
https://web.archive.org/web/20180709223100/http://www.ichde.org/workforce-development/
5
Ibid.
6
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/about-us/meet-our-staff/
7
“Interfaith Launches New Workforce Development Program,” 11/5/16,
http://delawareway.blogspot.com/2016/11/interfaith-community-housing-of.html
8
Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINPL, February 2016. Received through a FOIA
request in January 2017.
9
From the DDOL TRAIN grant Request for Proposals, included in the Contract 3-104-TRAINPL FOIA response.
10
Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINPL, February 2016. Received through a FOIA
request in January 2017.
11
Professional Services Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received
through a FOIA request in January 2017.
12
Ibid.
13
Ibid.
14
“Interfaith Launches New Workforce Development Program,” 11/5/16,
http://delawareway.blogspot.com/2016/11/interfaith-community-housing-of.html
15
Interfaith’s Monthly Financial Report for 3-104-TRAINIM grant, May 2017.
16
Interfaith, IRS Form 990, Schedule R, Part IV, 2016,
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/510/510298556/510298556_201706_990.pdf
17
Interfaith website: http://www.ichde.org/about-us/meet-our-staff/
18
Delaware Secretary of State, file number: 4987597,
https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch.aspx
19
Delaware Secretary of State, file number: 5519395,
https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch.aspx
20
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) records for Petrucon Construction.
21
Petrucon Construction OSHA record,
https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=311810626
22
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Homeownership Opportunities in Dunleith,”
https://archives.hud.gov/local/de/goodstories/2015-07-02b.cfm
23
Delaware Business Now, “New Castle County takes aim at vacant properties,” 5/17/17,
http://delawarebusinessnow.com/2017/05/new-castle-county-takes-aim-vacant-properties/
24
New Castle County, Department of Community Services, FY18 CDBG, ESG, HOME Allocations,
http://www.nccde.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/18303
25
New Castle County, Parcel # 1000530254, http://www3.nccde.org/parcel/Details/Default.aspx?ParcelKey=83238
26
Interview with residents of 407 Morehouse Drive, Dunleith, DE, 10/27/17 and phone interview on 4/20/18.
27
New Castle County, Work Order 195265, General Park Maintenance, received through FOIA request, 11/17/17.
28
New Castle County, Cases and Violations, Case 201709680, Parcel 1000530254, received through FOIA request,
12/21/17.
29
New Castle County, Case Inspection Detail, Inspection 1868021, Parcel 1000530254, received through FOIA
request, 2/15/17.
30
The News Journal, “Veteran says volunteers botched, abandoned home renovation,” 5/21/18,
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/05/21/veteran-home-makeover-botched-
abandoned/615941002/

28 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program

31
The News Journal, “Delaware-funded construction training program exploits ex-offenders, participants say,”
4/27/18, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/04/26/delaware-construction-training-
nonprofit-exploits-ex-offenders-free-labor/404457002/
32
The News Journal, “At state Senate hearing, job training program called a 'travesty',” 5/7/18,
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/05/07/labor-committee-stated-funded-homeworks-program-
travesty/586745002/
33
Kashif Handy, statement submitted to the Delaware Senate Labor Committee hearing, 5/7/18.
34
Eric Mundy, statement submitted to the Delaware Senate Labor Committee hearing, 5/7/18.
35
Shawn Wilson, statement submitted to the Delaware Senate Labor Committee hearing, 5/7/18.
36
Professional Services Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received
through a FOIA request in January 2017.
37
Ibid.
38
Ibid.
39
Interfaith’s Monthly Financial Report for 3-104-TRAINIM grant, May 2017.
40
The News Journal, “Delaware-funded construction training program exploits ex-offenders, participants say,”
4/27/18, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/04/26/delaware-construction-training-
nonprofit-exploits-ex-offenders-free-labor/404457002/
41
National Employment Law Project, “Independent Contractor vs. Employee: Why independent contractor
misclassification matters and what we can do to stop it,” 5/9/16, http://www.nelp.org/publication/independent-
contractor-vs-employee/
42
The News Journal, “Delaware-funded construction training program exploits ex-offenders, participants say,”
4/27/18, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/04/26/delaware-construction-training-
nonprofit-exploits-ex-offenders-free-labor/404457002/
43
Delaware Workplace Fraud Act, § 3503, http://delcode.delaware.gov/title19/c035/index.shtml
44
Memorandum of Understanding with contractors, included in the Professional Services Agreement between
DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received through a FOIA request in January 2017.
45
Professional Services Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received
through a FOIA request in January 2017.
46
PACT Instructor Guide, included in the Professional Services Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract
3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received through a FOIA request in January 2017.
47
Professional Services Agreement between DDOL and Interfaith, Contract 3-104-TRAINIM, July 2016. Received
through a FOIA request in January 2017.

29 UNFAITHFUL: The Broken Promises of the Interfaith HomeWorks Training Program