Program Components:

Academic/remedial support

Career counseling/exploration

Internships

Financial support

Business-community partnership

Development and Workforce Preparation Programs.

1801 Panorama Dr

Bakersfield, CA 93305

661-395-4824; datkinso@bakersfieldcollege.edu

respect for individuals and ideas and opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge, and

attitudes required to be competent, self-sufficient, and participating citizens of the world.

This program promotes student self-reliance by focusing on employment. The program

offers education and training that leads to employment. The program provides the

required 32 hours a week that combines classes with work-study, work-study programs

that may be exempt from cash aid, work experience or on-the-job training. Financial

assistance is offered to qualified recipients. College CalWORKs students are also

provided counseling in a supportive and informative environment that encourages student

success, and they are provided with confidential liaison and advocacy between student,

the college, the Department of Human Services, and other agencies.

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The staff consists of the College CalWORK's Coordinator, who is based out of the Career

Development Office. There is also a 19-hour student assistant who is a CalWORK's

student. A database of all CalWORKs students is maintained so that the progress of each

students can be followed

The college has prepared a well-written and easily understood flyer that is widely

distributed to promote the program through an annual open house, through the Department

of Human Services, and at County Fair programs.

Individual success stories attest to the effectiveness of the program. The staff feels that

the faster you can effectively mainstream the CalWORK's participants, the more

successful you are at moving them off public assistance and into self-supporting jobs.