Academy Educational Objectives and Purposes
The Academy has a broad range of objectives in order to better serve the greater Rochester/Finger Lakes community. These encompass the following main programmatic areas:
Job Training Curriculum:
It is the purpose of the Academy to design, develop, and deliver job-training curriculum that reflect contemporary workforce skills as identified by collaborative input from both manufacturing and information technology industry advisors.
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Multi-Level Educational Experiences:
To provide a multi-level job training educational experience for disabled, disadvantaged, and displaced individuals which consist of:
- Basic skills training (when necessary)
- Specific workshop skills training (technical and soft skills training)
- Workforce internships
- Apprenticeships
- Mainstream job placement
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Working with local community organizations:
It is the objective of The Academy to work with local community groups, in which high unemployment rates exist, to design and deliver specific workforce training programs locally in the community it serves. Delivery of this training focuses at the grassroots level by:
- Identifying individuals within the local community who meet or can meet specific criteria to be trained as trainers.
- Train these individuals as prospective trainers.
- Utilize local facilities and trainers to deliver workforce training in the local community.
- Utilize the school’s workforce internship and apprenticeship programs to reinforce the workforce training and to allow individuals the opportunity to adapt to the cultural differences and demands that they will face when entering today’s workforce.
- Utilize the Academy’s job placement services to obtain permanent employment.
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Working in secondary schools:
To work with local secondary school systems to provide teacher training in utilizing Information and Assistive Technologies in their classrooms, and to help design, develop, and deliver cost-effective contemporary workforce skills training for high school students at their schools.
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Working with homebound individuals:
To provide specific information and/or assistive technology training for homebound individuals (disabled persons, single mothers, homebound welfare recipients, and the elderly) through the school’s distance learning and on-line training facilities.
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Collaborating with other local agencies:
To develop, design, and implement a network of community and faith based community technology learning centers (CTLC) which will provide access to computers, broadband internet access, and technical & other educational programming to underserved children, youth, and adults in their own neighborhoods.
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Sponsoring off-site seminars and educational events:
The Academy sponsors off-site seminars and other educational events where community and industrial leaders, governmental and organizational representatives, and other concerned members of the public and government may meet to exchange ideas, suggest solutions, and implement strategies to provide equal access to advance in information and assistive technologies for all members of society.
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