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Iowa Central Business & Community

barriers students face when pursuing their education. For example, the PACE program allows the Career Navigators to pay for childcare, transportation, and certification fees for the students that qualify. They also follow up on student grades and attendance and assist students develop or build on their soft skills, like crafting a resume and interview skills. Finally, they connect students to employers and Career Services.

To learn more about Career Navigators, contact Melissa Vorrie, Workforce Programs Director, by calling (515) 574-1972 or by emailing vorrie@iowacentral.edu.

Career Services

Students and alumni can utilize the Career Services department to help discover a career path, find a job or internship, or to advance their professional skills. They also work with area businesses to provide students with current job opportunities. Other services include the online job board, career fairs, job search tips, internship opportunities, career assessments and advising, and worksite tours.

Iowa Central Business & Community serves the nine counties in Iowa Central Community College’s region. Our team offers a variety of services, from exposing K-12 students to area businesses and career opportunities to offering customized training in safety, leadership, and more to business’s employees. Check out all Iowa Central Business & Community’s services, upcoming classes, and more below!

ADULT EDUCATION & LITERACY

The Adult Education & Literacy department offers free English Language classes to adults 16 years and older in the Eagle Grove, Fort Dodge, Storm Lake, and Webster City communities along with the surrounding areas.

High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) classes, formerly known as GED, are also offered by the Adult Education & Literacy department, free to students 17 years old or older. Students study with trained instructors in Fort Dodge, Jefferson, Storm Lake, and Webster City to successfully complete the five HiSET subtest areas: Writing, Math, Literature, Science, and Social Studies.

To learn more about Adult Education & Literacy, contact Abby Underberg, Adult Education and Literacy Director, by calling (515) 574-1076 or by emailing underberg@iowacentral.edu.

Career Navigators

Career Navigators work with the Community Education Director to meet area workforce needs by providing relevant classes, offering financial support through grant funding, and mentorship to address

To learn more about Career Services, contact Eric Oberg, Career Services Coordinator, by calling (515) 574-1075 or by emailing oberg@ iowacentral.edu

Community Education

The Community Education department provides noncredit classes to the nine-county region in subjects like healthcare, manufacturing, education, agriculture, and leisure. Classes offered are typically shortterm, certificate classes that helps students start or advance their career in a high-need career pipeline.

To register for a class or to learn more about Community Education, contact Michelle Filmer, Community Education Assistant Director, by calling (515) 574-1292 or by emailing filmer@iowacentral.edu.

Economic Development

Iowa Central Community College is committed to helping local businesses grow and compete in today’s rapidly changing business climate. Our customized technical training provides individuals with the training and education needed to succeed and provides skill development and enhancement essential to organizational productivity. Training is available in many areas and can be developed around your needs. Trainers may be Iowa Central training specialists or other experienced industry professionals.

To learn more about Economic Development, contact Julaine Bidleman, Economic and Community Education Director, by calling (515) 574-1900 or by emailing bidleman@iowacentral.edu.

IOWA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (SBDC)

Iowa Central center serves entrepreneurs and existing businesses in Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Guthrie, Hamilton, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster and Buena Vista counties. The focus of the center is helping to build rural Iowa, which is doing so through partnerships.

To learn more about the SBDC, contact Justin Faiferlick, Small Business Development Center Regional Director, by calling (515) 574-1997 or emailing faiferlick@iowacentral.edu.

Upcoming Community Education Classes

Healthcare:

Pharmacy Technician

May 1 – June 28, 2023 (Monday and Wednesday from 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm)

East Campus

You’ll complete this comprehensive course with the knowledge and skills to enter the pharmacy field and take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam.

Learn to read and interpret prescriptions, define generic and brand names drugs, pharmacy terminology, and much more.

Medical

Billing and Coding

May 1 – July 12, 2023 (Monday and Wednesday from 6:00pm – 9:30 pm Additional Classes Saturday May 20 and June 24 9 am – 4 pm)

East Campus

This combined 80-hour billing and coding course offers the skills needed to solve insurance billing problems, how manually file claims (using the CPT and ICD-10 manual), complete common insurance forms, trace delinquent claims, appeal denied claims, and use generic forms to streamline billing procedures.

Hybrid Emergency Medical Technician

May 5 – July 19, 2023 (Every Wednesday from 6:00pm – 10:00pm & Online Coursework)

(face-to-face class also required 7/17, 7/20, & 7/24)

Fort Dodge Main Campus

A program that prepares individuals, under the remote supervision of physicians, to recognize, assess and manage medical emergencies in prehospital settings and to supervise ambulance personnel. Includes instruction in basic, intermediate and advanced EMT procedures; emergency surgical procedures, medical triage, rescue operations, crisis scene management and personnel supervision, equipment operation and maintenance, patient stabilization, monitoring and care, drug administration, identification and preliminary diagnosis of diseases and injuries, communication and computer operations, basic anatomy, physiology, pathology and toxicology, and professional standards and regulations.

Certified Nurse Aide

Option #1

May 8 – July 7, 2023

(Monday Wednesday Friday)

12:30 pm – 4:00pm

Fort Dodge Main Campus

Option #2

June 6 – August 10, 2023

(Monday Wednesday Friday)

8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Fort Dodge Main Campus

Manufacturing:

Production Welding

Option #1

May 30– July 25, 2023

(Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

1:00 pm – 5:00pm

Storm Lake

Option #2

June 13 – August 8, 2023

(Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Eagle Grove

This program will include topics covered in the credit welding program such as blueprint reading, gas metal arc welding and thermal cutting. This certificate program will prepare the student for an entry level welding position.

MSHA Training

New Miner

June 5 – June 7, 2023 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

East Campus

Mine safety training for underground mine with work being done above ground, as week as underground mine with work being done underground. This training is for new miners and/or contractors.

Refresher

June 8, 2023 (Thursday)

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

East Campus

Eight-hour annual MSHA refresher. This training will cover Part 46, Part 48A and Part 48B- surface and underground.

Transportation:

Semi-Truck Driver (CDL)

July 6 – September 15, 2023

Monday – Thursday 7 am – 3:30 pm and Friday

7 am – 2:30 pm

Transportation Technology Center

Obtain a certificate and a Class A CDL while learning how to drive a tractor/trailer safely. Iowa Central is a registered training provider and offers the theory and BTW for manual and automatic trucks. Attendance is required and testing is done onsite.

Leisure:

Intro to Canva

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Greene County Career Academy Rm-D122 –Jefferson

Whether you are interested in improving your social media presence and presentations, creating eye-catching flyers and forms, or you just want to see what Canva is all about, this event is for you!

Advanced Canva

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Greene County Career Academy Rm-D122 –Jefferson

Are you wanting to learn more after you took the Introductory Canva Class? This class will help learners put everything we learned in the beginning class and tie it all together. Take your designs up a notch with this advanced class.

Online (always available):

FAA Part 107 Certification Prep (Drone)

12-week online class

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 107 class, which focuses on small, unmanned aircraft operations (drones). The Operations Over People rule became effective April 2021. After earning the certification, Drone pilots operating under Part 107 may fly at night, over people and moving vehicles without a waiver if they meet the requirements defined in the rule. Airspace authorizations are still required for night operations in controlled airspace under 400 feet.

Iowa Coaching Authorization

Self-paced

This course satisfies the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners requirements to apply for an Iowa Coaching Authorization license.

To register for a class or to learn more about Community Education, Michelle Filmer, Community Education Assistant Director, by calling (515) 574-1292 or by emailing filmer@iowacentral.edu.