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Job Corps Center Names VGCC Community Partner of Year

April 6, 2006 | by VGCC Staff

Vance-Granville Community College has had a long, continuing relationship with Kittrell Job Corps Center, providing a wide variety of training for the center’s residents. In recognition of that relationship, the center named VGCC its Community Partner of the Year for 2005.

In response to requests from the Job Corps Center, Vance-Granville conducts Adult High School and GED classes and testing, Nursing Assistant I and II classes, pre-college training through the Human Resources Development program, and computer classes. The college provided 16 computers to the center for information technology classes and for college prep work by the Job Corps students.

Vanessa Jones, VGCC vice president of Community and Economic Development, said many of the center’s residents do not have a high school diploma or GED, which are required before they can go into college curriculum programs or other advanced training. “We are looking into providing the education they need to prepare them for continuing their educations,” Jones said.

Several new courses are being considered for teaching at the Kittrell Job Corps campus. One that will begin later this year is Medical Terminology I and II, to prepare students for work in healthcare settings.

Garland Elliott, VGCC’s director of Economic Development Occupational Training, said the college is also looking at basic emergency medical technician training, pre-Biowork and Biowork classes, and perhaps electronic assembly training.

Dorothy Mitchell, Job Corps Center director, and William Burwell, Kittrell’s CT&E program manager, presented the Community Partner of the Year award to Elliott at the KJC Industry Council meeting March 21.

PARTNERS AWARD

– Vanessa Jones, Vance-Granville Community College vice president of Community and Economic Development, and Garland Elliott, director of Economic Development Occupational Training, display the Community Partner of the Year Award for 2005, which the Kittrell Job Corps Center presented to the college.

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