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Virginia's Career Readiness Certificate
Virginia's Career Readiness Certificate (CRC)
is an assessment-based credential
that gives employers and career seekers
a uniform measure of key workplace skills.
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What is DCE?• Virginia Department of Correctional Education• Provides educational services to incarcerated
individuals across the state– Academic– Vocational– Cognitive
• Service areas– Adult prisons
– Juvenile facilities– Community Corrections
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The Career Readiness Certificate program was part of Governor Mark Warner's Education for a Lifetime initiative and continues under Governor Kaine.
Oversight of the CRC is the responsibility of the Commissioner of the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC);
administration of the CRC is handled by the Virginia Community College System.
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The Career Readiness Certificate is a portable skills credential,
assuring employers that a job applicant
actually has the basic skills they seek.
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Virginia's Career Readiness Certificate
helps employers by certifying that a recipient possesses core skills in
applied math, reading for information, and locating information —
skills that are required by at least 85% of all jobs profiled by ACT Workkeys in the country.
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Virginia’s Career Readiness Certificate 3 Levels
Bronze core employability skills forapproximately 30% of available jobs
Silver approximately 65%
Gold approximately 85%.
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Upon release, individuals who carry with them a Career Readiness Certificate will have a credential that provides meaningful evidence of their job skills and promotes their employability in a competitive market.
w Why the CRC FOR DCE?
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By testing individuals who are enrolled in Career and Technical programs in a fourth area, Applied Technology, DCE students will have additional support to “level the playing field” when competing for employment upon release
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Southside Virginia Community
College
• provide assessment materials
• score assessments • provide certificates• provide access to
state CRC database
• provide trained assessors to administer the 3 CRC assessments
• provide test/test administration security
• award certificates
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Enrolled or previously enrolled in a DCE academic, vocational, transition or cognitive program, or a tutor
Educational functioning level of 8 th grade or better in both reading and math based on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE)
Scheduled for release within 1 year or less
SELECTION CRITERIA
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Over 5,200 Virginia workers have earned their CRCs in the last three
years DCE has added over
1000
to that figure within the past year!
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http://www.crc.virginia.gov/skillsbank/
ZIP CODE
DATES
CITIES
LWIAs
PDCs
REGIONS
COMMUNITY COLLEGE SERVICE REGIONS
CERTIFICATES (LEVELS)
SCORES
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Preparation
•Conventional Prisons
•Usually 5 90-minute classes per week.
•Certified DCE instructor plus 1 qualified offender tutor for each pair of students.
•Schedule may vary according to institutional needs.
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Preparation
Community Corrections
•DCE program varies with type of institution
•Detention and Diversion Centers
•20 week programs
•Day Reporting Programs
•Non-residential
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ImplementationTRAINED ASSESSORS
DEVELOPED & DISSEMINATED --
● POLICY/GUIDELINES FOR TEST ADMINISTRATION
● MONITORING AND REPORTING PROTOCOLS &
FORMS
SCHEDULED & CONDUCTED BLITZ TESTING (Central Office Assessors)
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RESULTS From 12/01/05 thru 11/30/061st year of the program-Total Assessed: 1061
Bronze 308
Silver 613
Gold 156
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Curriculum
• Workplace Essential Skills
• Aztec Learning Systems
• Most pre-GED math workbooks
• Teacher-made materials