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| For Release: IMMEDIATE | Contact: Public Affairs |
| Date: January 12, 2000 |
Community Colleges Honored for Work First Efforts
Raleigh -- Three North Carolina community colleges were among the award recipients honored today at the Governor’s Work First Business Council Awards Luncheon. The awards recognize successful and innovative programs that put welfare recipients into the workforce. The goal of Work First is to help welfare recipients get short-term training and develop job skills and link participants and employers to supportive services. The recognition of three community colleges reinforces the critical role these institutions play in the economic success of our communities and its citizens.
Piedmont Community College in Roxboro received the "Outstanding Work First Training Program" award for its Transitions Program, a local partnership effort among the Person and Caswell County Departments of Social Services, PCC and other community agencies. The program employs a holistic approach to address the multiple barriers those on welfare typically face. The overall goal of the program is to provide training, job placement, and job retention services to clients so they may become self-sufficient through employment.
Southeastern Community College in Whiteville received the "Outstanding Welfare-to-Work Program" award for its Ladder to Success Program, a comprehensive effort that provides transitional assistance, concentrating on employment and post-employment activities. The primary goal of the program is to move welfare recipients into unsubsidized employment.
Fayetteville Technical Community College in Fayetteville was recognized as part of the "Outstanding County Collaboration" award-winning efforts in Cumberland County on behalf of welfare recipients. FTCC was recognized for the tremendous role it plays in the design, development, and implementation of numerous initiatives to benefit Work First and Welfare-to-Work participants. Among the efforts cited; a Human Resource Development Lab operated at the county DSS office; cafeteria classes where workers were trained and employed; and a CATV Communication Cabling Program where 90 percent of the 72 participants trained found employment in the field.
North Carolina Community College System President H. Martin Lancaster presented the Transitions award to PCC President Dr. Jim Owen and others from the program. Lancaster praised the successful partnerships forged at the local level among community colleges, business and industry, social services, the Employment Security Commission and others as "the strength of our workforce system."
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