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Community Development through Education and Training

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COURSES

 

VERNON COLLEGE

  • Command Spanish

  • Best Program-- Basic, Employability, Skills, Training

CISCO JUNIOR COLLEGE

  • Management – did training for businesses for a variety of business needs

PANOLA COLLEGE

  • Command Spanish

  • Skills Development

  • Self-Sufficiency

  • Adult Basic Ed

  • Flex online Associate Degree Nursing program

  • Occupational Therapy Assisting program

  • Welding, HVAC, Electrical, Agriculture

  • Dual Credit local high school Shelby County Texas

  • GIS and Environmental Science

BLINN

  • Command Spanish

  • Certified Nurse Aide

  • Best Program-Basic, Employability, Skills Training

  • Skills, Development grant-funded training for business/industry

 

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Customer Service

  • Supervisory training

  • Team building

  • Computer update training

 

SKILLS AND WORKSOURCE ED AND TRAINING

 

PARIS JR. COLLEGE

  • WIA/Workforce Board funding

  • Skills development funds

BLINN

  • Skills development funded training

  • WIA/Workforce Board funding

  • Self-sufficiency grant funded training

VERNON COLLEGE

  • Skills development funds

BLINN

  • Texas Leadership Institute-provides training sessions and workshops specifically for rural governmental agencies and non-profits in support of economic and community development goals

PANOLA COLLEGE

  • Industrial Technology

  • Command Spanish

RURAL LEADERSHIP

 

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • USDA/CDC workshop for elected officials, CDC/EPC members funded by AEP and supported by EBC

  • RCCI Ext Team meetings have been instructive as to needs in using/teaching appreciative inquiry

  • Leadership Bee County uses the Texas Rural Leadership Model with local input for on site visits.  This model is being shared with other counties

BLINN COLLEGE

  • Texas Leadership Institute-provides training sessions and workshops specifically for rural governmental agencies and non-profits in support of economic and community development goals

ADULT EDUCATION  

 

KILGORE

  • Adult Basic Education

  • SBDC

  • TRIO

  • Adult Basic Ed programs - Adult literacy

NTCC

  • Outreach Center initiatives – Adult Literacy

SWTJC

  • Pilot Project – Equipped for the Future

  • TEA initiative with Adult Basic Ed and Workforce – taught Retail Sales to ESL level participants – linked to job internships with Retail Business Partners in community

BLINN

  • Adult Basic Education

  • SBDC

  • Contract/Personalized training for business, industry, and government entities

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Kingsville Campus has developed the Move Up the PACE (Parent and Child Enrichment)

  • Literacy program for residents of the Kingsville Housing Authority and their children

DEPARTMENT

 

BLINN

  • A Workforce Development Specialist/Professional to serve as POC for the College

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

 

SRDC:

  • Environmental issues

  • Asset mapping

  • Community Strategic Planning

  • Leadership Development

  • Conflict resolution

  • Business development

  • Economic and social data analysis

  • Rural tourism

  • E-commerce

  • Economic development

  • Economic Impact Analysis

  • Value added qualities

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Community service

CULTURAL AWARENESS

 

NTCC

  • Increased cultural awareness

BLINN

  • Community service

  • Service Learning projects for students

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Cultural diversity training for probationers

DISTANCE LEARNING

 

SWTJC

  • SWT Net – connects 21 school districts in our service area through distance learning (V-Tel) links.  SWTJC is the hub.

  • SWT Net – connected 21 school districts through DL linkage

BLINN

  • Partnered with Texas A & M University, regional ISDs and city/count government to provide an infrastructure for distance learning

  • Dual credit programs with regional high schools and the college

SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

 

BLINN

  • Perkins and Tech Prep inclusion in community and economic development initiatives

  • Formation of program advisory groups for specific communities

NTCC

  • Communities in schools

KILGORE

  • TRIO program

  • Partnership with Sr. Center

  • Texas Shakespeare Festival Outreach programs

  • KTPB Radio – Kid’s Fest

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • TRIO plus Quality Enhancement Plan targeting underprepared mathematics students

PRISON

 

WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE

  • Inmate education

  • C.O.T Training

BLINN

  • TDCJ/Federal Prison/Windham ISD college programs offered

CLARENDON

  • Inmate education at TDCG Roach Unit

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Continuing Education courses in Federal Prison include Horticulture, Air Condition and Heating, Carpentry, Building Service Professional/Housekeeping, Waste Water Treatment

  • Academic courses state prisons include all courses needed to achieve Associate in Arts, Science or Applied Science in Data Processing

  • Vocation courses in state prisons include Automotive Transmission, Data Processing

CONTRACT/CORPORATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

SPC

  • Contract training

NTCC

  • Corporate training

VERNON COLLEGE

  • Contract training with businesses and industry

BLINN

  • Contract training for business/industry

  • Developed a Leadership Institute

PARIS JR COLLEGE

  • Contract training through CE

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Contract training with area non-profit organizations, counties and cities as well as business and industry

CLARENDON COLLEGE

  • Contract training through CE

ALLIED HEALTH

 

SPC

  • Phlebotomy

  • Certified nurses aide

SPC-PLAINVIEW

  • LVN program

BLINN

  • Certified Nurse Aide

  • Phlebotomy

  • IV Therapy

  • Certified Medication Aide

  • Associate Degree Nursing and LVN

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Certified Nurse Aid and Home Health Aid

  • Medication Administration

  • Phlebotomy

  • Food Service Sanitation

  • CPR

  • EMS from Basic through Paramedic

  • LVN program

  • Radiology Technician proposed

CLARENDON COLLEGE

  • LVN program

  • EMT training through CE

CHILDCARE

           

CISCO

  • Childcare training.  Train people from area daycares in a variety of topics.  Partnered at Workforce Board

  • Child Care Development

NTCC

  • Outreach Center initiatives:  support of in-school youth, after school care

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Child Care Center and degree in Child Development

MANUFACTURING/WELDING

 

CISCO

  • Manufacturing technology – welding

  • Welding – Workforce Board assisted in funding.  Train basic welding skills/compressed timeline at request of local industry

HILL COLLEGE

  • Lean Manufacturing – also known as Six Sigma

BLINN

  • Skills Development grants for manufacturing

  • Self-sufficiency grants for basic workforce training

  • Developed Welding Technology program (credit)

COASTAL BEND COLLEGE

  • Contract and certificate welding classes

  • Carpentry and building trades taught at Alice Campus