PROJECT OVERVIEW
Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) is using the Walmart Bright Futures Grant to establish a Career Professionals Center, providing career and job search services to professional and paraprofessional dislocated workers in the Charlotte, NC, region. These services include career assessments and workshops to help individuals identify their transferable skills and reposition themselves for 21st century jobs. CPCC is also using grant funds to provide training and education stipends to help dislocated workers retrain and retool for these jobs.
 
GOALS AND STRATEGIES

Project goals

1. Establish a career services center (Career Professionals Center).
2. Help dislocated workers acquire 21st century job skills and obtain jobs.
3. Increase academic retention and completion rates for dislocated workers.

Key strategies

1. Create a user-friendly intake process to assess needs and maximize dislocated workers’ access to the Career Professionals Center and other available resources.
2. Establish a competency-based assessment process to provide dislocated workers with information to help direct their job search.
3. Create protocols to track student and client participation and progress in multiple training, education, and certification programs for dislocated workers.