COMMUNITY BASE PROGRAM
OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM
1.0 Our Educational Target market:
1.
There are students leaving high school and going
directly into the workforce with no qualified skills.
2. Provide Retraining Workforce & Development -
3. Technology Education is needed in the high school in order to meet the SOL and SAT standards especially in low income school systems
4. Reentry Program for ex-offender and recovering drug addicts
5. Economically Deprived
6. Senior Citizen
7. High School student who is not going to a two or four year institution
8. Displaced homemaker
9. Any student who have been expelled from a high school or college.
Programs
Millennnium Training offers more than 300 different Educational Programs. Most of courses leads to some type of Industry Certification which includes Technology(300 IT Program, HealthCare, Business, Media and Design, Hospitality, Skilled Trades, Industrial, Training, Dental Office, Entrepreneurship, Home Inspection, Medical, Accounting & Finance, Engineering, Microelectronic, Insurance, Language, Legal, Creative Writing, Culinary Art Education, Customer Service Manager, Foreign Language Training, Professional Bartending, Human Resource Certificate, US Public Service
E Marketing Certificate, Library Education, Management in Business Certificate, Grant writing, OSHA Officer, Paralegal, Pharmacy Technician, Realestate Agent, Teacher Education Certificate, Technical Writing Certificate, Travel Agent Certificate, Free lance Writing Certificate and many many more. As a separate program, we also offer over 5000 skills training courses in 16 different languages through our eLearning portal. It is designed to be a one-stop solution for schools and the community at large.
For a complete view of our programs, please go to the following websites:
1. www.mectmart.com
2. http://mtsi.theelearningcenter.com
3. www.keystonelearning.com
4. www.learnkey.com
5. http://www.elearners.com/college/ua/
6. http://www.villanova.edu/homepage/index.htm
FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO THE WORKFORCE
For the past several years, I have been involved with an initiative to answer the challenge facing faculty, parents, and the community. This challenge is to prepare students for life after graduation. Students at most schools are faced with two major options: either they go to college after graduation or they go directly into the workforce. It is imperative that students be provided with measurable skills in the area of certification, so that upon graduating, they will have a greater chance of getting a better paying or more meaningful job. We are excited about providing an ideal solution for students who need to get the hands-on skills required to succeed in the corporate world. A large percentage of students leaving high school are going directly into the workforce. Our goal is to target Juniors and Seniors who have not applied to any type of two or four year institution and provide them with a career path.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in just a few decades, we will have a growing class of retirees and a shrinking workforce, and there will be an increasingly diverse group of Americans entering the workforce, bringing with them the need for truly new ways of organizing and managing work. Furthermore, the report states, “Our economy is making an unprecedented transition into high-skilled, information-based industries. This has created a disconnect between the jobs that are being created and the current skills of many workers.” Considering this shrinking and increasingly diverse workforce and the existing skills gap, continuing education should be an integral part of today’s business strategic planning.
In today's rapidly changing workplace, skills once considered a plus have become a must. The "high-tech skill set" is no longer confined to high-tech industries and is woven into the operational fabric of virtually every business in every sector. Employers in an increasingly competitive economy need employees who possess 21st century skills.
PRISON REENTRY
PROGRAM
Each year more than 650,000 men and
women are released from federal and state prisons, and return to their
communities and families. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics,
two out of three returning inmates will be re-arrested for new crimes within
three years of their release from prison and more than half will be
re-incarcerated. Further studies show that nearly one-third of adult prisoners
were unemployed in the month prior to their arrest. Additionally, it is
estimated that unemployment rates among ex-prisoners are between twenty-five and
forty percent. Released prisoners face countless challenges which contribute to
their return to criminal activity, re-arrest and re-incarceration. These include
joblessness, substance abuse, mental health problems, low levels of educational
attainment, lack of stable housing, and poor family connections.
As an added incentive Millennium Training would like to provide pay to
qualified ex offender and recovering drug addicts to attend school.
RECOVERING DRUG ADDICTS
On the eve of their release from most Drug Release Program
Most RDA’s want to
straighten out their lives and we know reentry into society has it
challenges, such as finding a job or avoiding a relapse.
Millennium Training with assist with the transition in providing
educational opportunities to any RDA’s that has been cleaned for 60 – 90 days.
Our RDA (Recovering Drug
Addicts) program is similar to our Ex-offender re-entry program with the same
educational benefits couple with some of the following:
1.
During the program, RDA’s will
learn new skills to help make a successful re-entry into the community.
The program incorporates morning meetings, peer reviews, seminars, individual
counseling, and work.
2.
Additionally, RDA’s will take
skill-building classes such as substance abuse, criminal conduct, academics,
family development, victim awareness, and personal counseling. Vocational
training and employment are key components of the program.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO DON’T
ATTEND COLLEGE
Surprisingly little research has been conducted on noncollege-bound
high school graduates who do not fall into some other category such as
disadvantaged or unemployed. A study used data drawn from the High School and
Beyond research (a multipurpose national longitudinal study of America's high
school students) to examine 4,537 high school graduates (class of 1980) who did
not attend a two- or four-year college within two years of their high school
graduation. Fifty-eight percent of the class of 1980 attended college, leaving
42 percent that did not. Not surprisingly, students from the highest social
levels and with the highest levels of academic achievement were most likely to
attend college. On the other hand, many of those who did not choose to attend
college could have chosen to do so (this appeared especially true for qualified
blacks, who often chose full-time employment over college). Of those 1980
graduates who did not attend college, 3,667 found full-time employment and 870
engaged in "other" activities. Four years after graduation, a full 30 percent of
the 870 persons in the "other" category had found full-time employment. The
remaining graduates were involved in the following activities: vocational
education (9.6 percent), apprenticeship (2.0 percent), government training (0.5
percent), living alone (5.4 percent), Manpower (2.9 percent), a Comprehensive
Education and Training Act program (12.1 percent), the Youth Corps (2.8
percent), employer training (11.6 percent), church activities (19.8 percent),
noncredit college courses (8.2 percent), and social clubs (17.1 percent). (MN)
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The
recent report by the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education(MBRT) "shows
major gaps in technology use" in most schools statewide. The solution presented
in this summary addresses one major observation in the report, namely, that
"the survery clearly
shows that, right now, they [students] are not receiving the kind of preparation
they will need in order to succeed at work and throughout their lives.” We
are here proposing a solution that addresses the technology needs of these
students in schools statewide by providing to each school, courseware that is
taught by over 30 IT professionals and certified trainers.
This solution effectively and seamlessly integrates technology education
courseware into the technology programs offered by high schools in the State of
This solution
solves an old problem. In this age of rapid technological advancement, the
debate over how to best integrate technology into education raises many
questions but provides few answers. School administrators are increasingly
being asked to find solutions - this time with the use of modern technology - to
the challenge of training their students.
The central focus in
the education debate, as mandated by parents and our public representatives, is
the delivery of measurable results. Students who graduate from high school are
faced with two requirements if they are to integrate well in our high technology
society. One requirement is to attain high scores in their SAT exam if
they plan on continuing their education in a college or university. The
other requirement is to attain IT certification if they want to be candidates
for high technology employment into the high paying IT field.