CHANGES/CAMBIOS

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CHANGES/CAMBIOS

• Empowering women to explore
• non-traditional technical careers

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Riverland Community Collegefunded by Perkins
non-trad grant managed the project

• See photos at the end of the presentation!
• Partners
• Austin Community Education programs
• Albert Lea Community Education
• Welcome Center Austin
• MN WorkForce Center

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The Numbers

• 36 participants
• (50 more than we had projected)
• 18 Hispanic/Latina women
• 17 Caucasian
• 1 Sudanese woman
• 35 children
• 10 technical faculty
• 2 workshop facilitators
• 4 translators/co-facilitators

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Results knowledge on non-traditional careers

• Curriculum developed and translated into Spanish
  to support the project
• Participants learned about non-traditional
  careers in general and what Riverland has to
  offer
• learned which careers matched their skills and
  interest via self-assessments
• 35 expressed interest in enrolling in a
  non-traditional career nearly all need ESL or
  development course work before they could enter a
  technical program

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Results - overcoming fear of attending college

• Participants
• Became comfortable at the college overcame
  fears and experienced the quality child care that
  is available
• learned how to apply for admission and financial
  aid
• formed an informal support group and developed
  friendships with other participants many
  carpooled and found common interests, including
  their children who accompanied them each week

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Results social and technical learning

• Participants
• Used computers (some for the first time) to
  complete interest inventories KUDER assessment
• Interacted with women from several cultures other
  than their own and gained a better understanding
  of each culture
• Children had a positive experience in the child
  care centers
• mothers overcame fear of leaving children in
  child care

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Women learning about Diesel Mechanics
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Hands on opportunities!
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Dislocated workers
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Free Daycare and meal provided
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Discussing what we learned
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Thank you!

• For copies of Holland Code interest survey
  translated into Spanish contact Danielle Heiny,
  Director of Admissions dheiny_at_river.cc.mn.us