When Catholic Charities of Kansas City – St. Joseph received two grants to fund training and education for underserved and marginalized residents in our area, the social service agency turned to the MCC Institute for Workforce Innovation.
Catholic Charities has contracted with MCC to provide training to two distinct groups as outlined by the two grants:
1. For the Project RISE program, MCC will deliver technical training, academic support and soft skills training to underserved young adults, 18-24 years of age. The program was made possible by a federal grant from the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), with additional local support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and United Way of Greater Kansas City. In exchange for developing and delivering the training and support services, MCC will receive $377,770 over the next 2.5 years. The Catholic Charities-MCC collaboration is one of six SIF collaborations of its kind across the nation.
2. With funding from an ex-offenders grant, Catholic Charities was able to contract with MCC to provide technical training, academic support and soft skills training for 250 ex-offenders. To support participants’ entry and advancement in meaningful careers, MCC will conduct Worldwide Interactive Network (WIN) assessments and deliver IWI programs that include bundled services. The IWI outreach team is currently working with Catholic Charities to iron out the details for course delivery, but programs will likely include CNA, photovoltaic, green maintenance technician and professional food preparation. Over the next 2 years, MCC will receive $700,000 to develop and deliver the programs and services.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Episcopal Community Service reception catered by MCC students
More than 75 people attended the reception hosted by Episcopal Community Services (ECS) to celebrate the partnership between their Culinary Cornerstones program and the MCC Institute for Workforce Innovation (I.W.I.). The event was held at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral and catered by none other than MCC students participating in a new professional food preparation course.
The reception introduced the 15 MCC students enrolled in the program, many of whom were once served free meals at the ECS Community Kitchen. These students now have the opportunity to serve others while pursuing a career certificate under the tutelage of Anthony Herring, chef and director of the culinary program; Craig Adcock of Belly Up Bar-B-Que; Jude's Kansas City Rum Cake, and volunteer instructors.
In addition to the five hundred hot meals served to the homeless and underprivileged every week day, Culinary Cornerstones also boasts a professional catering service to give students plenty of hands-on experience. Last week's reception was the students' first time actually preparing food. Reception guests were left with high hopes for future student-catered events, including the program's graduation ceremony scheduled for May.
"Cooking and teaching-- it's a great combination," said John Hornbeck, president and CEO of ECS. Everyone agreed, the results were delicious.
In addition to the five hundred hot meals served to the homeless and underprivileged every week day, Culinary Cornerstones also boasts a professional catering service to give students plenty of hands-on experience. Last week's reception was the students' first time actually preparing food. Reception guests were left with high hopes for future student-catered events, including the program's graduation ceremony scheduled for May.
"Cooking and teaching-- it's a great combination," said John Hornbeck, president and CEO of ECS. Everyone agreed, the results were delicious.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Reception to Celebrate New MCC Partnership
Episcopal Community Services (ECS) will host a reception to celebrate the new partnership between ECS’s Culinary Cornerstones program and the MCC Institute for Workforce Innovation. This is MCC’s first collaboration with ECS to help train students in I.W.I.’s new professional food preparation program.
This partnership is an exciting opportunity for students to not only develop marketable career skills but to help the community. Training in food handling and related jobs will take place at ECS’s Kansas City Community Kitchen, which provides 500 hot meals every weekday to people living in poverty. The program is offered to disadvantaged students who are interested in a career in the culinary arts, and in fact, many of the students who enroll were once helped by the Kansas City Community Kitchen.
Professional and life skills training are also offered, including teamwork, communication skills, problem-solving, planning, stress management, job search and retention, and personal finance management. ECS’s Connections to Success program will also provide industry job placement.
The reception will be held on the evening of March 31, 5-7 p.m. at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral at 415 West 13th Street in Downtown Kansas City. Catering will be provided by Culinary Cornerstone’s current and incoming students.
For more information about this event, please contact Kevin Kelley, director of community development at I.W.I.
This partnership is an exciting opportunity for students to not only develop marketable career skills but to help the community. Training in food handling and related jobs will take place at ECS’s Kansas City Community Kitchen, which provides 500 hot meals every weekday to people living in poverty. The program is offered to disadvantaged students who are interested in a career in the culinary arts, and in fact, many of the students who enroll were once helped by the Kansas City Community Kitchen.
Professional and life skills training are also offered, including teamwork, communication skills, problem-solving, planning, stress management, job search and retention, and personal finance management. ECS’s Connections to Success program will also provide industry job placement.
The reception will be held on the evening of March 31, 5-7 p.m. at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral at 415 West 13th Street in Downtown Kansas City. Catering will be provided by Culinary Cornerstone’s current and incoming students.
For more information about this event, please contact Kevin Kelley, director of community development at I.W.I.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Panera Bread partners with MCC-Maple Woods to provide breakfast to struggling students
In an ongoing effort to help struggling students, Panera Bread at North Oak and Englewood Rd. have partnered with MCC-Maple Woods to offer free bagels and breakfast pastries to students each Monday morning.In addition to providing breakfast for students on campus, Panera also donates loaves of bread for students or employees who may need a little extra help at home.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Faculty needed for Course Signals program
MCC has been working in partnership with SunGard Higher Education to test a software program, Course Signals, that pulls together data from Blackboard grade books and MetroSoft to help predict early in the semester which students are at highest risk for getting a D, F or W.
Faculty will be able to run Course Signals anytime throughout the semester, which will give them additional opportunities to recommend actions to students that will improve performance. When run, the software will send one of three signals (green, yellow or red) to the student’s Blackboard home page to let them know how they are actually doing in class.
“The signals used are stoplight signals,” said Susan Wilson, director of student development. “If a student is doing really well, it’s green; not doing so well, it’s yellow; and if a student is at high risk of trouble in the course, they receive a red signal.”
The program also allows for faculty to send an email to the students that will give information and suggest resources for the student to utilize. Messaging can include a suggestion of certain material review, office hours of the faculty or a suggestion to visit the tutoring center, etc. The idea is to let students know their status early enough in the semester for them to be able to make changes and improve their grade.
Last spring, MCC was asked to participate as a development partner to work hand-in-hand with SunGard to see what enhancements need to be made to the product and to do testing to new versions as they become available. Because of this partnership, MCC will be able to test the software in a live setting from January – June at no cost to the college. At the end of the spring semester, MCC will complete an assessment plan to determine if we will enter into a five year contract at a significant discount.
“Course Signals will be evaluated to see if it does the things it is supposed to do,” Wilson said. “Does the software work; do we think it’s valuable for our students and faculty? We want the faculty perspective on how much time it takes and if they think it is a good way of communicating with students.”
Most importantly, are students making changes based on the signals and putting more effort into class? Students in the test program will be assessed as well. “We want to know if the students feel it is valuable and if they responded positively to the program,” added Wilson.
Finally, data from the class will be measured against other classes to see if there are fewer D’s, F’s and W’s in comparable classes. MCC’s comprehensive assessment will look to see if students moved from a red to a yellow, and a yellow to green.
MCC is looking for faculty to use this software in the spring semester. Faculty members interested in participating should contact Deanna Poudel at 604.4507 or Susan Wilson at 604.1070.
Faculty will be able to run Course Signals anytime throughout the semester, which will give them additional opportunities to recommend actions to students that will improve performance. When run, the software will send one of three signals (green, yellow or red) to the student’s Blackboard home page to let them know how they are actually doing in class.
“The signals used are stoplight signals,” said Susan Wilson, director of student development. “If a student is doing really well, it’s green; not doing so well, it’s yellow; and if a student is at high risk of trouble in the course, they receive a red signal.”
The program also allows for faculty to send an email to the students that will give information and suggest resources for the student to utilize. Messaging can include a suggestion of certain material review, office hours of the faculty or a suggestion to visit the tutoring center, etc. The idea is to let students know their status early enough in the semester for them to be able to make changes and improve their grade.
Last spring, MCC was asked to participate as a development partner to work hand-in-hand with SunGard to see what enhancements need to be made to the product and to do testing to new versions as they become available. Because of this partnership, MCC will be able to test the software in a live setting from January – June at no cost to the college. At the end of the spring semester, MCC will complete an assessment plan to determine if we will enter into a five year contract at a significant discount.
“Course Signals will be evaluated to see if it does the things it is supposed to do,” Wilson said. “Does the software work; do we think it’s valuable for our students and faculty? We want the faculty perspective on how much time it takes and if they think it is a good way of communicating with students.”
Most importantly, are students making changes based on the signals and putting more effort into class? Students in the test program will be assessed as well. “We want to know if the students feel it is valuable and if they responded positively to the program,” added Wilson.
Finally, data from the class will be measured against other classes to see if there are fewer D’s, F’s and W’s in comparable classes. MCC’s comprehensive assessment will look to see if students moved from a red to a yellow, and a yellow to green.
MCC is looking for faculty to use this software in the spring semester. Faculty members interested in participating should contact Deanna Poudel at 604.4507 or Susan Wilson at 604.1070.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Students serving students - Continuing Professional Education, UMKC partnership
MCC’s CNA and phlebotomy students will have access to a new program that has been established by the Institute for Workforce Innovation’s Continuing Professional Education (CPE) division and UMKC’s School of Social Work. The UMKC Master’s of Social Work (MSW) program will offer paid internships for working with MCC healthcare students.
MCC students will be provided with a coach and advocate, and UMKC students will have the opportunity to gain field experience as well as earn credit towards their master’s degrees. The program was proposed by Barbara Friedmann, CPE workforce and development manager, and Elaine Spencer-Carver, director of field education at UMKC. It is being funded through a grant from Mary Kay McPhee and Bill Pfeiffer, philanthropists and long-time supporters of both MCC and UMKC.
Cynthia Cravens, class of ’12 MSW student, is the first UMKC student to participate in the program. As the semester begins, she is eager to meet her students. “It’s so new, everyone’s so excited,” said Cravens. “Everyone has such an upbeat attitude. It’s energizing.” Cravens and subsequent MSW students will be located at the Health Science Institute.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
James attends panel discussion with MU
Chancellor Mark James attended the University of Missouri – Columbia Provost’s Staff Retreat on Sept. 1 in Blue Springs, Mo. James served on the panel with Bob Marcusse, Kansas City Area Development Council; Jim Heeter, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Chamber; and Dan Getman, president of Kansas City Life Science Institute.Discussion focused on furthering the partnership between MCC and the University of Missouri, specifically regarding transfer and workforce training initiatives.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Mark James speaks at Belton E.D.C. meeting
MCC Chancellor Mark James announces a new partnership between MCC and UCM that will establish a higher education presence in Belton, Mo.
A new partnership between MCC and the University of Central Missouri will give Cass County residents easier access to higher education. The partnership, which is still in the formative phase, will include continuing professional education, workforce training, associate’s and bachelor’s degree programs and other services.
MCC and UCM will open a joint temporary office at the Heritage office building in Belton, near MO-58 Highway. The current plan does not include building an actual campus in the county.
Additional information on this exciting new partnership will be forthcoming as it continues to develop.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Better jobs, better programs, better healthcare
A new collaboration between MCC, Cerner Corporation and the University of Missouri officially launched this month when 14 MCC students began an internship program at the company’s North Kansas City headquarters.
The internship program, called KCIT, is designed to provide MCC students with valuable work experience while addressing Cerner’s need for a pipeline of specially-skilled healthcare IT professionals. After a competitive interview process, the MCC students were selected from a large pool of student applicants for the paid internship positions.
Each intern will work 20 hours per week at Cerner while taking classes towards an associate’s degree in information technology. Upon degree completion, interns will be eligible to apply for full-time employment with Cerner. Those hired will, after a specified period of employment, be eligible for tuition assistance to pursue a bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri.
MCC’s role in the partnership is supporting efforts to enhance MCC’s information technology
curricula. Faculty and staff from across the district are working together to update existing programs to better align with the needs of Cerner and other technologically advanced employers.
Cindy Herbert, CSIS faculty and program coordinator at MCC-Longview, and Tom Wheeler, dean of instruction at MCC-Business & Technology, are leading an effort to revamp parts of the CSIS curriculum. Both are enthusiastic about how the program is already creating positive curriculum changes.
“The MCC-Cerner partnership couldn’t have come at a better time!” said Herbert. “The computer science department has been working on curriculum modifications as we strive to maintain alignment with changing industry demands. The KCIT project has provided CSIS faculty the opportunity to collaborate with Cerner’s IT personnel while making those changes. The partnership also gives students hands-on experience and a chance to apply the principles and theories they are learning in the classroom.”
A collaborative group made up of faculty and staff from several campuses and the Institute for Workforce Innovation are coordinating the internship program’s curricular enhancements and other partnership details.
“The Cerner project is a perfect example of how we should be working hand-in-hand with employers,” said Margaret Boyd, director of workforce development for the Institute for Workforce Innovation. “Cerner came to MCC with an immediate need for employees with very specific IT skills. We said ‘We can do that.’ We’ve come together to create a program that affords our students valuable workplace experience and allows MCC to enhance some existing programs, while developing an alliance that will continue to benefit our students and support our mission.”
Interviews for the second class of KCIT interns will begin in April.
The internship program, called KCIT, is designed to provide MCC students with valuable work experience while addressing Cerner’s need for a pipeline of specially-skilled healthcare IT professionals. After a competitive interview process, the MCC students were selected from a large pool of student applicants for the paid internship positions.
Each intern will work 20 hours per week at Cerner while taking classes towards an associate’s degree in information technology. Upon degree completion, interns will be eligible to apply for full-time employment with Cerner. Those hired will, after a specified period of employment, be eligible for tuition assistance to pursue a bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri.
MCC’s role in the partnership is supporting efforts to enhance MCC’s information technology
curricula. Faculty and staff from across the district are working together to update existing programs to better align with the needs of Cerner and other technologically advanced employers.
Cindy Herbert, CSIS faculty and program coordinator at MCC-Longview, and Tom Wheeler, dean of instruction at MCC-Business & Technology, are leading an effort to revamp parts of the CSIS curriculum. Both are enthusiastic about how the program is already creating positive curriculum changes.
“The MCC-Cerner partnership couldn’t have come at a better time!” said Herbert. “The computer science department has been working on curriculum modifications as we strive to maintain alignment with changing industry demands. The KCIT project has provided CSIS faculty the opportunity to collaborate with Cerner’s IT personnel while making those changes. The partnership also gives students hands-on experience and a chance to apply the principles and theories they are learning in the classroom.”
A collaborative group made up of faculty and staff from several campuses and the Institute for Workforce Innovation are coordinating the internship program’s curricular enhancements and other partnership details.
“The Cerner project is a perfect example of how we should be working hand-in-hand with employers,” said Margaret Boyd, director of workforce development for the Institute for Workforce Innovation. “Cerner came to MCC with an immediate need for employees with very specific IT skills. We said ‘We can do that.’ We’ve come together to create a program that affords our students valuable workplace experience and allows MCC to enhance some existing programs, while developing an alliance that will continue to benefit our students and support our mission.”
Interviews for the second class of KCIT interns will begin in April.
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