Grant award affirms Transition to College collaboration

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation has awarded an $80,000 grant for 2010 to the ABE Transition to College & Careers (TCC) program, a collaboration between Community Education Project (CEP) and HCC. The program helps under-prepared students enter and succeed in college programs that lead to occupations in high-growth fields that pay family sustaining wages, such as healthcare and the emerging field of green technology.

The CEP/HCC program is one of six pilot sites in five states funded by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. Adults learn core academic and college readiness skills and participate in educational counseling and career planning. Many of the participating adults pursue a career in health care, such as radiology and cardiovascular technicians, occupational therapists, dental hygienists, and nurses. In addition to the classroom based instruction, they participate in an online course on health science developed by World Education. The course is designed so that graduates will be able to provide a better living for their families while helping to reduce critical healthcare staffing shortages in the region.

The program is administered in partnership with the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) at World Education. Classroom-based instruction and face-to-face counseling will be supplemented by an online course developed by NELRC.

CEP Executive Director Robin Hodgkinson, and ABE TCC Coordinator/Counselor Elia Dreyfuss, were invited by the National College Transition Network to present on the topic of community and college collaborations and their successful TCC program model at the November, 2009 National Effective Transitions conference in Warwick, R.I.

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