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Addendum #3 CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING GENERAL TRAINING NARRATNE PROGRAM S1JNIl~tARY The CET Training Design -Comprehensive, Integrated Training Accessible to All Center for Employment Training (CET) is a private nonprofit corporation which operates one of the nation's largest networks of community-based training schools. CET directly manages 23 training centers in California and six centers in New York, Maryland, Vn-ginia, Illinois, Nevada and Florida. It also provides technical assistance to other corporations which operate CET training ceniers. CET employs over 350 staff and manages the Program from its training and administration fxility in San Jose, California. Founded in 1967. CET was established to train those who are not well served by mainstream educational institution-people whose language, reading and math skills are so limited they can't get into or have dropped out of public schools or who have leR those schools without marketable skills. In order to help these students overcome their multiple barriers, CET provides a comprehensive vocational training program which integrates English language and basic skills instruction with and in the context of vocational raining. Unlike almost all other public and private schools and training Program operators, CET does not require basic skills emry prerequisites for its courses. Because each student's instructional plan is customized to correspond with his or her needs and abilities. most students readily gain the skills needed to obtain a job in their chosen oavpational field. CET's program is a practical and effective model for training the labor force of the '90s. PROGRAM PLAN The CET Training Design - Comprehensive, Integrated Training Acceuible to All CET designed its training program specifically to serve those who face multiple and severe barriers to gaining self-sufficiency. Consequently, it offers a comprehensive set of services generally not found in a single employment training Program. In addition, it integrates services in such a way as to make training more eff dent and effective. Services include: • Vocational Training • Basic Skills Remediation • English as a Second Language Instnrction • GID Instruction • Vocational Guidancx and Support Advising • Pre-employment a~ Work Maturity Training • Support Services Referral and Advoc~cti• • Job Developmcnt • Follow-up Services Training Accessible to All - No Early Prerequi'ites or Creaming CET admits shidcnts without requiring that they meet Prerequisites. It does not screen out applicants who are weak in math. reading or English -instead it teaches these skills along with a vocational skill. Everyone who applies to CET and meets finding source guidelines can get in -even those who do not speak English or are illiterate in their native language.