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Promising Practice: A Community College and Employer Partnership
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Describes learned lessons from a promising workforce development partnership between a community college and a Certified Nursing Assistants training provider to create access to college-credit level prerequisite courses.
As a pilot site selected to participate in Illinois’ Shifting Gears (SG) initiative in 2007, Oakton Community College (OCC) partnered with Presbyterian Homes to develop a bridge course to prepare a cadre of their employed Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs) to enter college-credit level prerequisite courses to a Practical Nursing program. This brief provides a description of how this partnership was designed and highlights various challenges and learned lessons. (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)
Major Findings and Recommendations
Multiple strategies for support and challenges were discussed. Commitment to working through issues, shared provision of support services, and frequent and open communication were all noted as suggested support strategies. Underestimate of students' academic needs and limited nursing instructor availability were described as challenges. (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)
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Customized Training
On-the-Job Training
Paid Work Experience
Pre-Apprenticeship
Transitional Jobs
Work-Based Learning - General
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- Resource Publication Date: 2010
- Author(s): No individual author identified
- Organizational Author(s): Office of Community College Research and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Funding Source: Illinois Community College Board
- Resource Availability: Publicly available
- Posted by: Wesley Peterson
- Posted in: Workforce System Strategies