PREPARE AMERICA Community Colleges United in Service AN ASSOCIATION TO DEPLOY AMERICA’S COMMUNITY...

PREPARE AMERICACommunity Colleges United in Service

AN ASSOCIATION TO DEPLOY AMERICA’S COMMUNITY AN ASSOCIATION TO DEPLOY AMERICA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES COLLEGES

AS A COLLECTIVE RESOURCE TO HELP ENSURE THE UNITED AS A COLLECTIVE RESOURCE TO HELP ENSURE THE UNITED STATESSTATES

IS WELL PREPARED TO ADDRESS CRITICAL NATIONAL ISSUESIS WELL PREPARED TO ADDRESS CRITICAL NATIONAL ISSUESIN A GLOBAL CONTEXTIN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

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PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA VISIONVISION

America’s community colleges

are recognized and valued

as a joint national resource,

a partner to public and private-sector stakeholders

for ready, effective, effective, pervasive, and

perpetual delivery of vital information, services,

training, education, assessment, and credentials

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA NATIONAL SPONSORNATIONAL SPONSOR

As the oldest affiliate Council of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET) aims to contribute to individual, community, workforce, and economic development by:

• Exercising leadership as an AACC affiliate Council to provide quality education and training services

• Providing quality continuing education and professional development for members

• Promoting corporate citizenship in communities• Encouraging innovative opportunities for lifelong learning• Preparing a skilled workforce to be competitive into the 21st century.

Premiere association

serving professionals

in America’s Community Colleges

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA PRIORITYPRIORITY

COMMUNITY COLLEGES SUPPORT HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY READINESS BY:

1. Providing much-needed preparedness education and training;

2. Awarding portable credentials that document essential capabilities/competencies; and

3. Recording and tracking training progress

and reporting to appropriate agencies

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA METHODMETHOD

Leverage the capacity of America’s community colleges

in all 50 states as . . .• A provider of high-quality, accessible, coherent, responsive, and

accredited education and training

• A national infrastructure/architecture that is cohesive, grassroots-based, and practitioner-led

• A logical conduit to deliver readily, cost effectively, pervasively, and perpetually

• A proven network, geographically distributed, locally focused, and accountable

• An effective collaborator with multiple stakeholders

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA STAKEHOLDERSSTAKEHOLDERS

First Responders = Top priority (i.e., fire, emergency medical service, law enforcement, public health, emergency management, public works, hazardous materials, hospital and other medical personnel)

Second Responders = Second priority (individuals with qualified training and equipment that may be useful in responding to multiple threats and disasters and who are integrated into emergency response plans in order to supplement the capabilities of first responders)


• Workers and Business and Industry– Particularly those who

serve the public and/or may be at greater risk

• Members of the General Public– Individuals, volunteer

response organizations, neighborhood crime watch groups, churches, etc.


Local and State Government/Agencies

Federal Government/Agencies

Others (e.g., philanthropic organizations, civic/social service entities, educational partners, military, etc.)

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTUREORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Founders/Directors Executive Committee and Board

National OfficeSponsors Affiliates Partners

Initiative Task Forces10 Regional Lead Institutions

50 State Lead InstitutionsPANet

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTUREORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

REGIONAL LEAD INSTITUTIONS

Region I: Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MARegion II: Camden County College, Cherry Hill, NJRegion III: Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MDRegion IV: Kentucky Community and Technical College System,

Versailles, KYRegion V: Owens Community College, Toledo, OHRegion VI: Tarrant County College, Ft. Worth, TXRegion VII: St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MORegion VIII: Community College of Denver, Denver, CORegion IX: Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, AZRegion X: Pierce College District, Lakewood, WA

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA GOALSGOALS

GOAL I: PREPARE AMERICA effectively and efficiently functions as a collective national resource, an alliance of community and technical colleges whose practitioners work collaboratively as a conduit to deliver training and education to meet critical national needs.


Objectives for Goal I: A. Enhance the PREPARE AMERICA infrastructure/architectureB. Articulate the PREPARE AMERICA management planC. Execute agreement to a plan to nurture collaboration between PREPARE AMERICA and its national sponsor, NCCETD. Forge partnerships with public and private-sector stakeholders whose aims complement those of PREPARE AMERICAE. Form Task Forces to inform operational plans to guide initiativesF. Secure funding to support initiatives and operationsB. Promote the mission of PREPARE AMERICA


GOAL II: PREPARE AMERICA initiatives reflect collaborative community college training/education responses to national opportunities, challenges, threats, and imperatives derived from a global perspective, and they exemplify current and emerging best practices, including attention to standards, assessment, and credentialing.


Objectives for Goal II: A. Establish and further a homeland security initiative to ensure the ability of all stakeholders to effectively and efficiently prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from multiple threats and disastersB. Establish other PREPARE AMERICA initiatives (e.g., in response to national training issues such as literacy, teacher shortage, exodus of baby-boomers from the workplace, health care, etc.)


GOAL 3: PREPARE AMERICA informs policy makers and stakeholders as to the capacity of community colleges to help define and resolve issues impacting the future of the country, its communities, and its citizens


Objectives for Goal III: A. Organize one national conference each yearB. Present at national sponsor conferences each year and encourage representatives to attend and, as invited, present at other conferences, summits, workshops, etc. that further PREPARE AMERICA aims C. Convey the PREPARE AMERICA mission, method, and progress via professional publications, web site and related links, reports, newsletters, and other communiquésD. Inform state and national policy makers and staff as to specific national issue solution strategies offered by PREPARE AMERICA


GOAL IV: PREPARE AMERICA advances the role that America’s community colleges may play as ambassador and resource to emerging democracies and American allies world-wide

THE NATION’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES. THE NATION’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES. . .. .

IDEALLY POSITIONED TO PREPARE IDEALLY POSITIONED TO PREPARE AMERICAAMERICAThe United States invented

the community college. At a time when all stakeholders are challenged to create a viable framework to support unified responses to critical national issues, such as homeland security, America’s own creation is ideally positioned to serve and lead.

PREPARE AMERICA PREPARE AMERICA CONTACT:Bob Hammonds

Director, Homeland Security InitiativesKentucky Community and Technical College Systemand Chairman of the Board, Prepare America, Inc.300 North Main StreetVersailles, KY 40383(859) 256-3181

Pam WhitelockPresident/Ex. DirectorPrepare America, Inc.P. O. Box 1840Lynn Haven, FL 32444(850) 271-3736

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