Virginia's Career Readiness Certificate Virginia's Career Readiness Certificate (CRC)
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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.
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
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.
The Career Readiness Certificate is a portable skills credential,
assuring employers that a job applicant
actually has the basic skills they seek.
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.
Virginia’s Career Readiness Certificate 3 Levels
Bronze core employability skills forapproximately 30% of available jobs
Silver approximately 65%
Gold approximately 85%.
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?
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
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
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
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!
http://www.crc.virginia.gov/skillsbank/
ZIP CODEDATESCITIES
LWIAs
PDCsREGIONSCOMMUNITY COLLEGE
SERVICE REGIONSCERTIFICATES (LEVELS)
SCORES
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.
Preparation
Community Corrections
•DCE program varies with type of institution
•Detention and Diversion Centers
•20 week programs
•Day Reporting Programs
•Non-residential
ImplementationTRAINED ASSESSORS
DEVELOPED & DISSEMINATED --● POLICY/GUIDELINES FOR TEST ADMINISTRATION
● MONITORING AND REPORTING PROTOCOLS &
FORMS
SCHEDULED & CONDUCTED BLITZ TESTING (Central Office Assessors)
RESULTS From 12/01/05 thru 11/30/061st year of the program-Total Assessed: 1061
Bronze 308
Silver 613
Gold 156
Curriculum
• Workplace Essential Skills• Aztec Learning Systems• Most pre-GED math workbooks• Teacher-made materials