2003 S Social Services - Contract with Center for Employment Training

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Addendum Two CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING (CET) -DURHAM, NC CET is a private, non-profit, community-based, accredited job skills training and placement program. It is based on a 35 yeaz old model founded in San Jose, CA. Our mission is based on the philosophy ofself-determination and seeks to promote the human development and education oflow-income people by providing them with marketable vocational educational training and supportive services that contribute to economic self-sufficiency. CET's design is holistic, accessible, contextual, hands-on, integrated, self-paced, individualized, open-entry/exit, job oriented, intensive, and competency based. CET has been operating in Durham County since June 1995. We are now located in Northeast Central Durham at the Golden Belt facility. CET has trained, graduated and placed into good jobs aver 700 students in the past 7 'lz years. This helps the students, their families, their employers, and their communities. Students have graduated from certificate courses in Medical Clerical; Office Skills; Electronics; HVAC; and Shipping & Receiving. Our students have been: 78% aged 22 - 44; 43% high school drop out; 86% black; 85% single with dependent(s); 89% unemployed; 75% TANF/Work First participants; 88% female; 50% with reading/math skills below 8th grade. CET has maintained an 80+% Placement Rate since 1995. The present Avg. Placement Wage for our graduates is $9.70 per hour. CET -Durham, NC received the maximum 6 year term of accreditation from the Association of Schools & Colleges in 1999. CET received the Governor's (Hunt) Work First Business Council's Award for Outstanding Non-profit [statewide] in 2000. In 1997, The UNC-Chapel Hill Jordan Institute for Families deemed CET services "the most likely to lead to self-sufficiency". CET has been an appointed member of the Durham Workforce Development Board since 1999. We are also represented on the Durham Youth Council. In 2000, the NC Center for Public Policy Research found that CET -Durham had the highest rate of success and effectiveness of all training programs studied state-wide.