Services for Colleges:

Basic Skills Training Resources
This is a community college resource page. If your local businesses indicate an interest in Workplace Literacy and Basic Skills, we can share some ready-made course materials or other resources that would be helpful to you.

Class Materials:
Our Product List contains curricula titles that have been created either fully or partially with grant funds and can be shared with you upon your request. Many of these consist of a syllabus or course outline, teacher notes, pre/post tests, and complete class materials--essentially, a class ready to go. We have most of our curricula materials on diskette, which makes adapting or customizing them relatively easy. (We have additional curricula in our files that are not on this list because they were produced with client funds; while we would not be free to disseminate them, we could provide technical assistance by sharing sample excerpts with you and talking with you about how these classes were designed. For example, we have Vocational English as a Second Language curricula that we designed for telephone companies and electronics manufacturers, Spanish for pesticide company clerks, and business writing for a variety of agencies.) The other 11 Workplace Learning Resource Centers at California Community Colleges also have products that they can disseminate. For example, San Diego CCD WpLRC has an excellent Workplace Instructor Training CD with accompanying workbook that is excellent for faculty new to workplace learning. City College of San Francisco's WpLRC has two excellent Vocational ESL CDs for the hospitality industry.

Workplace Library
Our Library Inventory is available to Northern California Community Colleges only. Resources include assessment instruments, lesson plans with handouts, complete course curricula, texts, reference books, audiotapes, videotapes, software, and equipment. All of these are available for in-house use, and many are available for check out. Located at 1410 Ethan Way, Sacramento, CA.

Technical Assistance - Free Consultations
If you have clients who are requesting services in basic skills assessments, curriculum design, or training, and do not have sufficient background in this area, we can provide free consultations and technical assistance to you to help you assist your clients in this area. Moreover, if you have detailed questions about some of our curricula that we may have disseminated to you, we can connect you with the actual curriculum writers who can best answer your questions.