Accelerated workforce programs within SCCCD are preparing students for new careers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Accelerated workforce programs are helping get students trained, certified and prepared for caller careers.

A caller concern successful Fresno County is besides making it imaginable for students to person grooming escaped of charge.

Raul Salazar has been practicing welding since helium was 14.

He says helium learned from his dad, who is skilled but has ne'er been certified.

"He told me, he's like, 'The lone mode you'll go a amended welder than maine is erstwhile you get certified due to the fact that earlier that, you can't drawback up,'" Salazar said.

So helium started looking into certification programs and recovered retired astir backstage organizations outgo tens of thousands of dollars.

Even though helium was moving afloat time, the outgo was a obstruction for him to scope his goals.

Then helium was recruited by the State Center Community College District which offered a welding programme for escaped acknowledgment to a concern with the Fresno County Economic Development Corporation.

"It's hard to travel up with that money, truthful being capable to travel present for free, get the aforesaid certification arsenic idiosyncratic from a backstage school, I'm highly grateful for this," Salazar said.

The EDC received a $23 cardinal assistance from the US Department of Commerce done the "Good Jobs Challenge."

The backing aims to presumption communities to assistance their residents get the skills they request to conscionable manufacture demands.

President and CEO of Fresno EDC Will Oliver says they specifically look for students from underserved communities who whitethorn not person this accidental without added support.

"Our extremity is to hole and spot 2,500 radical from Fresno, Madera, Tulare and kings county's into precocious request employment," Oliver said.

The EDC offers wrapper astir services to marque definite students person assistance with proscription oregon kid attraction needs arsenic well.

The SCCCD puts connected the 16-week welding people astatine its Fresno City College West Fresno Center.

The programme helps bid and certify the students.

It besides connects them with employers who request employees.

"We person partnerships with a batch of section companies that are looking to prosecute welders," Sr. Program Specialist with The Training Institute astatine SCCCD Daniel Griffith said.

Multiple programs are disposable to assistance students scope their goals, including motortruck driving, quality assets assistant, administrative adjunct and aesculapian bureau specialist.

"Our anticipation is that we tin alteration their beingness done workforce education," Griffith said.

Students similar Salazar already spot a antithetic beingness for themselves. One wherever he's successful charge.

"In the agelong run, basically, what I privation to bash is unfastened up my ain shop," Salazar said.

"That's my extremity goal, successful a mates years, unfastened up my ain store wherever I'm going to beryllium repairing each types of equipment," Salazar said.

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