Equipping Students Program

Equipping Students Program We have an increasing dropout rate of high school students in our local community that we can no longer ignore. A challenge our program is ready to turn into an opportunity for both our students and local community. As an executive director it is important that our program take advantage of every opportunity presented by the challenges that it is faced with. Our vision is to educate, motivate, and facilitate our local community’s high school dropouts for today’s competitive job market and provide incentive to local and surrounding local employers with a pool of ready skilled workers to hire. The urgency of the needs has already been given the green light by local school districts and state agencies by means of their sponsorship and offered available funding for new training and vocational programs; a program we are ready and more than capable to provide. In addition our research has also provided discovery of federal government grants and other funding resources that are available to programs such as our own and the challenges it meet. To receive these additional grants and funding sourced it would be idealistic for the program to launch its services as immediate as possible. The declining local economic markets situation has forced our local community’s needs to shift. Employment opportunities, previous to the economic downturn, are no longer available; with that the incentive for numerous students to stay in school to acquire the tools and training necessary to be self reliant and compete effectively for a position they feel they have no longer have a chance at. The challenge of the community’s recent loss of companies and their community members that once filled those positions, remain considered one of our greatest challenges. The goal is to find a compatible immediate and long-term relationships between the type of training our program offers to our students and the skills employers of our local and

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