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| Adult Centers for Comprehensive Education and Support Services (ACCESS) | |
| Adult students of all education levels trying to improve their academic and vocational skills to obtain or upgrade employment. | |
| The Program | ACCESS agencies provide educational and training programs and support services to meet Adult Education, training, and retraining needs. ACCESS agencies provide adult basic education, ESOL, and high school equivalency instruction; nondegree adult occupational training in areas of labor market need; and life management instruction (e.g., employability skills, parenting, health, and nutrition). Support services help meet the needs of adults and link separate components into a continuum of service. These support services include full-time case management and counseling, comprehensive educational assessment and career counseling, on-site child care, parent education and family literacy programs, job development and placement services, and other support services like transportation, housing assistance referrals, and alcohol or drug counseling. ACCESS agencies and consortia work closely with local departments of social services and the local employment and training community. |
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| Implementation Requirements | Agencies must be eligible and respond
to a request for proposals from the
SED; applicants should be able to
provide all the component services of
ACCESS either on their own or in
consortium with other agencies.
Linkages with other service providers
are also required.
Training Training and technical assistance by the SED. Major areas include assessment, career counseling, case management, child care, family literacy, job development, and serving adults with disabilities. Generally no cost for training, but agencies are responsible for travel expenses. |
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| Materials | Materials Descriptive materials are provided. |
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| SED approval is required for replication. | |
| Contact: |
Glenn Schechtman ACCESS Coordinator Adult Family and Adult Education New York State Education Department Room 307EB Albany, NY 12234 (518) 474-1987 |
| Adult Individualized Multi-Services (AIMS) | |
| Single Parents or Displaced Homemakers | |
| The Program | The AIMS (Adult Individualized Multi-Services) program provides career oriented and supportive services to single parents or displaced homemakers with little or no income who must prepare for self sufficiency. The program is enhanced through coordinated and collaborative relationships with campus, community, and county service providers. Students or community members are eligible participants. Employment for at least 30 days was secured and retained over an academic year by 84% of graduates with an Associate Degree. |
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| How it Works: | Outreach activities are conducted on the college campus and in the community to recruit participants and educate faculty and staff, members of the target population, and outside service providers about the availability of program services. The program provides individual and group options for career orientated and support services. The career orientated component of the program includes: career assessment and exploration, job search and readiness activities, and a two week career development/life skills training utilizing the Adkins Career Development Training series. The Supportive services include: counseling, providing information and referrals, and parenting skills training utilizing the Active Parenting training program. |
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| Learning Standard: | Career Development/Occupational Studies. |
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| Contact: |
Janet C. Smith, Program Coordinator AIMS Program - bldg. H, room 104 Nassau Community College One Education Drive Garden City, NY 11530 phone: (516) 572-7436 fax: (516) 572-9774 |
| Case Management (CM) | |
| Adults with complex human service/educational needs; training targets professionals who serve such persons. | |
| The Program |
CM offers individualized
assistance to persons within educational,
human services and/or employment and
training systems working toward self-
sufficiency.
The CM process involves ongoing assessment, planning, personal support, resource identification, linkages, and follow-up to individuals with multiple barriers. It operates at both the "client" level, providing assistance to persons requiring service, and at the "systems" level, encouraging collaboration among local, regional, State, and federal agencies. CM is a core component of every ACCESS agency and consortia, and other agencies like JTPA, DSS, and VESID. Training is geared toward support staff and administrators, ideally across agencies that work together in a community. Ideal training focuses on both skills of line staff and interagency collaboration. |
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| Implementation Requirements | Existing or desired intra/interagency
collaboration.
Training Programs of one hour to many days are available for single sites as well as local, regional, or statewide audiences. Full programs involve initial training and follow-up. Training and technical assistance is free to ACCESS agencies and consortia; prices for others are available. |
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| Materials | Full manual containing background material, forms, resources and supporting documents is available during training. Additional materials are presented at specific workshops. |
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Michael J. Irwin Coordinator-Assessment & Placement Services OCM BOCES Career Training Center 4500 Crown Road Liverpool, NY 13090 (315) 453-4404/(800) 444-4406 fax (315) 451-4676 |
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