NABC updates progress on Operation Comfort

Jan. 1, 2020
NABC has updated its

formal plan to provide I-CAR training to wounded veterans in a

partnership with Operation Comfort.
 
The National Auto Body Council (NABC) updated its formal plan to raise $1.5 million dollars to provide I-CAR curriculum and training to wounded veterans in a partnership with Operation Comfort.Like this article? Sign up to receive our weekly news blasts here.

Chuck Sulkala, executive director of the NABC, said “This project has been given highest priority by the NABC board and we will give ongoing updates and total transparency to the entire industry of our efforts.”

The plan includes raising $1.5 million to purchase, completely renovate, and equip a 30,000 square foot training facility in San Antonio, Texas on behalf of Operation Comfort’s Automotivation program. The NABC has raised more than $200,000 to date toward this goal and will recognize major donors in coming updates.

“There is no other program in our industry that connects wounded veterans with entry level job opportunities in auto body repair. Participants will receive training in collision repair, estimating, vehicle refinishing and other related topics toward the goal of preparing them for full time employment in our industry. We have an obligation to help those who have given so much for the freedoms we treasure,” Sulkala said.

NABC encourages all collision repair-related associations, businesses, body shops, and individual collision repairers to make donations for this project. To do so or for any further information contact Sulkala at 888-667-7433.

Operation Comfort, founded in 2004, is a 501 C-3 nonprofit organization that complements the rehabilitation efforts carried out by the U.S. Army at the Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). As a form of occupational therapy, the organization runs the AutoMotivation program through which disabled veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan—in many cases those that have lost one or more limbs—are helped with rehabilitation through automotive-related repir activities.

Visit www.operationcomfort.org for more information.

For NABC membership information call 1-888-667-7433 or go to www.autobodycouncil.org.

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