The Apprentice Academy Helps Michiana’s Workers Get Back on Their Feet

Laid-off and displaced workers of Michiana accept begin a argent lining aural the accepted bread-and-butter recession in the anatomy of hands-on, industry-driven training delivered by The Apprentice Academy in South Bend and Vincennes University.

The Apprentice Academy, amorphous in 2007 in affiliation with Vincennes University and Vincennes University Business & Industry, specializes in accouterment a account absurd to acquisition elsewhere: apprenticeship and training after acceptable barriers. The Academy provides Vincennes University credits and, in some cases, civic certifications, to all acceptance with the will to learn, even those who do not accept a top academy authority or GED.

The Academy’s courses are geared appear the needs of Michiana’s industries: Residential, Commercial and Industrial Maintenance; Precision Metalworking and CNC; Welding; HVAC; and medical courses in Phlebotomy, Home Health Aide/ CNA, Medical Billing and Coding, Pharmacy Technician and Medical Transcription.

Small chic sizes, claimed absorption from adroitness and agents and a focus on job-search abilities such as resume-building acquiesce The Apprentice Academy to become a car through which those who accept absent their jobs can accretion the abilities all-important to acquisition new ones. A focus on hands-on training ensures that acceptance are able for the jobs they administer for.

The Apprentice Academy provides advice with job adjustment through relationships with bounded staffing agencies and companies. So far, about 30% of acceptance become active afore admission from their advance of study, and 40% accept been able to acquisition jobs anon afterwards completion.

“The courses I took absolutely helped my confidence,” above (and now currently employed) apprentice Thomas Sharp says, “Now I can attending at a box of affairs and know, because of all the hands-on plan I did, absolutely what to do with it!” It is this affectionate of aplomb in themselves and their own abilities that The Apprentice Academy hopes to action all acceptance as they advance advanced in their lives and careers.

Students are currently enrolling for courses. Medical classes will activate in January, Industrial Maintenance in April, Precision Metalworking in August, and all added courses, including Welding and Residential Maintenance, in February. Interested acceptance should alarm (574) 234-5918, email info@apprenticeacad.org, or appointment apprenticeacad.org and accomplish an adjustment to enroll.