Verizon grant awarded to SSCC's Your Place program
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Southern State Community College’s Your Place program recently was awarded an $18,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation.
The Your Place program assists individuals-in-transition in achieving their goals of education and/or employment. Program classes emphasize self esteem, goal setting, decision making, communication skills, conflict resolution, time/stress management, budgeting, parenting skills and more. Students are also instructed on conducting a career search and learning basic computer skills.
“Verizon is proud to partner with Southern State Community College and the Your Place program that empowers families with the skills, passion and enthusiasm to pursue a life of learning,” said Todd Colquitt, president of Verizon Ohio. “Verizon is committed to helping individuals gain the complex literacy skills needed across the lifespan, from early childhood through adulthood, to participate, compete and be successful in the 21st century.”
Grant funds were used toward printing of the program’s workbook, as well as to cover expenses allowing Your Place instructors to present “Your Place for the Adult Learner: Contextualized Learning for the Non-Traditional Student” at 21 workshops, seminars and conferences in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, Virginia, Kansas, Texas and California.
The philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, the Verizon Foundation supports the advancement of literacy and K-12 education through its free educational web site www.thinkfinity.org and fosters awareness and prevention of domestic violence.
For more information about Southern State’s Your Place program, please visit www.sscc.edu and click on the Prospective Students link, or call Sue Evans at 1-800-628-7722, ext. 3540.[[In-content Ad]]
The Your Place program assists individuals-in-transition in achieving their goals of education and/or employment. Program classes emphasize self esteem, goal setting, decision making, communication skills, conflict resolution, time/stress management, budgeting, parenting skills and more. Students are also instructed on conducting a career search and learning basic computer skills.
“Verizon is proud to partner with Southern State Community College and the Your Place program that empowers families with the skills, passion and enthusiasm to pursue a life of learning,” said Todd Colquitt, president of Verizon Ohio. “Verizon is committed to helping individuals gain the complex literacy skills needed across the lifespan, from early childhood through adulthood, to participate, compete and be successful in the 21st century.”
Grant funds were used toward printing of the program’s workbook, as well as to cover expenses allowing Your Place instructors to present “Your Place for the Adult Learner: Contextualized Learning for the Non-Traditional Student” at 21 workshops, seminars and conferences in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, Virginia, Kansas, Texas and California.
The philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, the Verizon Foundation supports the advancement of literacy and K-12 education through its free educational web site www.thinkfinity.org and fosters awareness and prevention of domestic violence.
For more information about Southern State’s Your Place program, please visit www.sscc.edu and click on the Prospective Students link, or call Sue Evans at 1-800-628-7722, ext. 3540.[[In-content Ad]]