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Product Name
Center for Workforce Excellence

Project Description
The WERC initiative, a collaborative project between the three community colleges, was created to provide regional job seekers, employers and students with increased, (potentially) virtual access to credit and non-credit training services available at Monroe, Genesee and Finger Lakes Community Colleges.

The project will transition to an operation embedded in the three college workforce offices when funding ends. As a result, the issue of colleges co-developing and delivering courses for or with one another, and launching existing courses online, shifted to become a long-term goal.

Outcome from Using the Product

• In 2009 WERC staff began providing scholarship funds for regional courses at the three colleges to unemployed and underemployed workers. Thirty two (32) (previously reported as 31) individuals received scholarship funds in the 2nd Quarter of 2009. In the third quarter of 2009, 99 applicants were approved to receive WERC scholarship funding, including 23 students attending an FLCC course, 52 attending a GCC course and 24 students attending a course at MCC. One hundred fifty nine individuals have received WERC scholarships, representing eight of the nine counties in the Finger Lakes region as of November 30, 2009.
• Project leads also reported that nine individuals receiving WERC scholarship funds achieved employment as a result of their training; seven as Certified Nursing Assistants and two as Direct
  Support Professionals.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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