| | In today's competitive job market, a high school diploma or GED often isn't enough to compete for a living wage job.
You can train for a new career and earn a certificate from Summit Academy OIC (SAOIC), a fully accredited training institution, in just 20 weeks or less!
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| | | | The Summit Academy OIC (SAOIC) Career Options Program offers high school juniors and seniors the option to earn high school credits while learning a trade at a post secondary vocational school.
Career Options students train at SAOIC for 20 weeks or less for a career in one or more of the following areas: Pre-Apprentice Carpentry, Pre-Apprentice Plumbing, Pre-Apprentice Electrician, Administrative Assistant and Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide.
Career Options students receive credit from their high school, a Certificate of Completion from SAOIC and various incentives.
| Full-time and Part-time classes now available!
Tuition cost: Paid through the Minnesota Department of Education | | Click here to view QOP website
Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) brings together community-based organizations, schools, parents, students, teachers, and community-based organizations. The objectives of the QOP Program are:
- To connect parents, students, community-organizations, and the school district, to capitalize on the resources and strengths of each to assist students of color toward success.
- To prepare struggling students for life beyond high school.
- To enhance the economic and social health of the community with self-sufficient citizens and workers.
The QOP program curriculum consists of daily one-on-one academic and personal development counseling, tutoring with a licensed teacher, service learning within the community, college preparation, and life skills training.
Evaluation shows that participation in QOP has had several positive outcomes, including increases in academic skills, passing rates for the Minnesota Basic Standards Tests (MBST), higher school graduation rates/college attendance. Participation decreased the likelihood of being a high school dropout, becoming pregnant, fathering a child or engaging in violent behavior.
| | The Connections program works in partnership with Hennepin County departments and foster families to stabilize placements and improve the rate of successful emancipation from the permanency system for high-risk foster care youth with four our more multiple disruptions and failed placements. The primary goal of Connections is to prepare youth in foster care to emancipate from the county's care and to live independently successfully. All youth in the program are under the legal custody of the Hennepin County Department of Children, Family & Adult Services.
SAOIC's Connections Program has the flexibility to design services to meet a wide range of individual needs and circumstances for foster care youth, and to coordinate services with both local government agencies and community organizations that provide complementary supportive services to foster care youth and providers.
Services offered to youth under the Connections Program include: Independent living skill classes providing youth with knowledge about securing a job, money management, making decisions and choices, building self-esteem, skills training and financial assistance with college or vocational schools. | To learn more about each individual program listed, please call 612.377.0150 to request a brochure. |
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