Making Connections to Jobs, Education, and Training: The Essential Skills Program of the Community College of Denver.

Autor/inn/en	Melendez, Edwin; Suarez, Carlos
Institution	Massachusetts Univ., Boston. Mauricio Gaston Inst. for Latino Community Development and Public Policy.; New School Univ., New York, NY. Community Development Research Center.
Titel	Making Connections to Jobs, Education, and Training: The Essential Skills Program of the Community College of Denver.
Quelle	(2001), (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Basic Education; Basic Skills; Community Colleges; Daily Living Skills; Economically Disadvantaged; Educationally Disadvantaged; English (Second Language); Job Training; Poverty Programs; Skill Development; Two Year Colleges; Welfare Recipients; Welfare Reform; Welfare Services + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Community college; Community College; Alltagsfertigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Armenfürsorge; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Fürsorgeeinrichtung
Abstract	This paper describes the Essential Skills Program at the Community College of Denver (CCD), which functions as an education broker and a labor market intermediary that coordinates the services offered by CCD with the needs of a number of Department of Social Service clients. The Essential Skills Program (ESP) supplements the services offered by the college by providing a series of Life and Employment Skills and contributes to the Department of Social Services by assisting students in getting an internship as part of their training, and a job once their training is completed. ESP was designed in an effort to increase the job opportunities of welfare clients affected by Welfare-to-Work legislation. Core courses are designed to provide participants with work-related skills. ESP offers services to approximately 100 students per semester in 4 short-term, 4-month long educational tracks. The most successful program, the Financial Services track, with an average enrollment of 22 students per semester, has a 50% graduation rate, a 50% employment rate, and an average wage of $9.40 an hour, the highest in the program. The other tracks are Early Childhood Education, Medical Instrument Technician, and Retail Sales. (Contains 22 references.) (NB)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.newschool.edu/milano/cdrc/research.html.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC