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Please help us spread the word: IU13 Community Education is seeking a new supervisor for our Lebanon County Program.
First-round interviews will start in early April.
To learn more about the position:
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IU13 Community Education offers job experience to Lebanon County out-of-school students (ages 16-24) to help jumpstart their careers.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) assists qualified youth with a range of services and supports, like forklift certifications. The WIOA Program participants receive case management for one year and additional follow-up support the following year. The program has partnerships with many Lebanon businesses, school districts, and colleges.
Congratulations to Kieran, Thomas, and Matthew, who received their forklift certification on February 5th.
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Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania (CISPA), an IU13 partner, is pleased to announce that they received a $30,000 grant from the PPL Foundation. These funds will support the Cultural Navigation project at Fulton Elementary School in Lancaster. Lancaster has a long history of welcoming refugees and immigrants, many of whom have school-aged children. These students and families face unique challenges when enrolling in public school, and the services available to them have previously been limited.
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Jessica Knapp, CISPA’s Executive Director, said, "I am so excited about this program and our partnership with the IU13. These folks are the experts in cultural navigation services in Lancaster, and Fulton's students and families will benefit so much from being able to work with a Cultural Navigator. I am so incredibly grateful to the PPL Foundation for supporting this important work!"
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To learn more about our Refugee Center: |
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Tim Talk
IU13 Community Education Program Director
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March is National Women’s Month, a time to celebrate women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. The 2022 theme is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” a truly appropriate theme after two years of battling COVID. Women make up 80% of IU13 Community Education’s staff, and
through their roles as administrators, facilitators, program assistants, student advisors, navigators,
and teachers, they are providing healing and promoting hope for thousands of adult learners,
70% of whom are women.
Learners at IU13 are obtaining their high school equivalency diplomas, learning English, obtaining great jobs, moving into training opportunities, and bettering their lives for both themselves and future generations. As we near the end of National Women’s Month, please take a moment to express gratitude for all the healing and hope that the women in your life bring daily.
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A Step in the Right Direction |
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The Record Herald, an affiliate of USA Today, recently published an article about resettlement and school integration in Lancaster County and featured IU13’s Khem Subedi, Community Education Coordinator for the Refugee Center. The following is an excerpt:
Resettlement comes with the promise of education. The promise of quality may be less distinct. Refugees are folded into financially strained education systems, in a country still embroiled in a battle within itself about which prisms of its history to teach. But from urban districts to small boroughs, U.S. school systems pose as pivotal turning points in refugee family integration.
“People get really confused, angry, frustrated, because they did not have this understanding in the first place,” said [Khem] the former Bhutanese refugee, now community education coordinator. “Our cultural navigation is around all those small things that really make a bigger impact down the road.”
Where educators might assume a student is shutting down or even showing depressive symptoms, they can call on the Refugee Center, Subedi said, to meet with multilingual navigators and family members to dig below the surface.
To read the full article:
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The Rotary Club of Lancaster Board approved an IU13 Community Education funding request for $12,500 for the Refugee Center.
Congratulations to all who worked hard to pull the proposal together! These funds will certainly be put to good use. More details to follow.
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English as a Second Language Classes Start April 4th |
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If you’re interested in improving your English skills, you're in luck. The next session of classes starts the first week of April.
Unaweza kuhuthuria darasa la kiingereza Kupitia kwenye mtandao, ukipenda asubuhi darasa lipo, Ukipenda Jioni darasa lipo.
الفصول متاحة عبر الإنترنت في الصباح والمساء.
Las clases de inglés como segunda lengua empiezan pronto.
Les cours d'anglais langue seconde
commencent prochainement.
To register or learn more:
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As a recent college graduate, Zach (pictured) was looking for training programs that not only appealed to him but also offered job advancement opportunities. He attended Word of Life Bible Institute and received a two-year certificate, which he planned to use to help his local church and his community. He wanted to do more, however, so he researched other fields that would work well with the certificate he already had.
He finally decided to pursue a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), as his grandfather, father, and numerous friends and family members had worked as truck drivers. A CDL license would allow him to help people move in and out of homes and apartments, take local and on-the-road jobs, and be home on the weekends to serve in his church.
Through his church, Zach learned about IU13 Community Education and reached out to start the licensing process. IU13 staff enrolled him in CDL training, providing the necessary resources. Zach completed an entry-level driver training course in March 2022 and is now the proud holder of a Class A Commercial Driver’s License.
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IU13 Community Education provides a wide variety of daytime and evening educational and supportive services to adults in Lancaster and Lebanon counties.
Click on the links below or call us at 717-606-1708 for more information.
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If you're interested in making a difference in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, consider donating to IU13 Community Education.
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English as a Second Language
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GED | HiSET test prep classes
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Must be a United States Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) to enroll in classes
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ESL or HSE classes for parents of children between birth-3rd grade
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ESL classes with civics instruction and placement into job training programs
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Workforce Preparation Classes |
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Administration Support Professional
Basic Computer Skills
Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
Direct Care Provider Certificate
Teacher Assistant (Special Education)
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Services and Supports Include:
Paid Internships, Assistance in Seeking Employment, Training for Certification, Supportive Services, and more!
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**Youth must meet income and eligibility requirements.
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Bilingual cultural navigators connect children and adults with social, educational, and medical services in the community
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*IU13 Community Education classes and services provided directly by IU13 staff are free with limited exceptions. Additional services/tests provided by our partner providers may have costs. Please contact us with any questions. |
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Contact Information:
For more information about Community Education visit our website
or call
Lancaster: 717-606-1708
Lebanon: 717-450-1525
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