“If you mentor and train an Artisan you give them a livelihood that they can take with them anywhere they go and they keep on learning and get more experience and will never be without a job.”

The vision of UPSKILL BARRYDALE is to bring all the mentors in the community that have spent their livers mastering a career in a skill they love and that took a lifetime for them to learn and have them give back the their knowledge for a few hours a week or a day to teach youth their skills. What this does is build community, give youth the mentoring and attention they lacking in their community as well as give pride to both the teacher and the student.