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Delgado Community College
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WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT
OVERVIEW
Delgado Community College’s Workforce Development:
• Seeks to promote personal, professional, and economic development
through initiatives designed to maintain a skilled workforce,
and enhance the quality of life on local, regional, national, and
international levels.
• Provides customer driven assessment and training programs as an
inducement to secure new value added businesses to our region.
• Provides existing businesses with the necessary training for
expansion and responds to permanent closures and layos.
Corporate, Community & Continuing Education
• Provides lifelong learning opportunities for students seeking
professional development or personal enrichment. Course oerings
continuously change to reflect the needs of the businesses and
communities we serve.
• Oers courses in 2D graphics, computer skills, business, languages,
history, photography, notary, private investigating, an tour guiding.
Youth summer camps are also oered.
• The following initiatives are currently in development: partnerships
with DXC for IT training, the LSU AgCenter for trainings at Delgado’s
greenhouse, and Veterans Aairs for barbering/cosmetology training;
and Rapid Response IBC Grants for Health Coach and Medical Lab
Technician training.
• Oers personal, professional, and customized trainings for our local
community, including Incumbent Worker Training Intensive Services
at the American Job Center in Gretna, Workforce Investment Act -
Individual Training Accounts (WIA-ITA), Youth Occupational Skills
Training (YOST) for ages 18 - 24, and regional collaborative initiatives.
• Current trainings include Certified Line Worker, Medical Assistant,
Hospitality and Tourism, Cisco Networking, and NCCER certifications.
Maritime & Industrial Training Center
Nationally designated as a Center of Excellence
for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training & Education
by the U.S. DOT MARAD
• Delgado’s Maritime and Industrial Training Center has earned an
international reputation for providing high quality maritime and
industrial fire fighting, radar, safety, and U.S. Coast Guard-approved
training to licensed mariners and industry personnel in the maritime,
oil and gas, and safety/homeland security fields. Courses can be
tailored to meet companies’ specific needs.
• The facility features three wheelhouse simulators, conference space
for up to 125 attendees, and multiple radar labs.
• Training includes Virtual Reality
Incident Command, ERM, and
QMED. A Rapid Response IBC Grant
will also enable deckhand, vessel
engineering, tankerman, and
steersman training.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a program for small
businesses that links learning to action. Participants gain practical
skills in topics such as negotiation, marketing, and employee
management that can immediately be put into action.
• In addition, they receive the
tools and professional support
necessary to develop a strategic
and customized growth plan that
will take their business to the
next level.
Small Business Centers
• Delgado’s Small Business Centers, located at the City Park and West
Bank Campuses, serve students, neighbors, friends and family by
helping individuals launch and grow their own businesses.
• Current partnerships include Cox Communications, City of Kenner,
Louisiana Economic Development, U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA), Louisiana Small Business Development Center (LSBDC), New
Orleans Chamber of Commerce, and Goldman Sachs 10K Small
Businesses.
Regional Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program
The first regional apprenticeship program has been established, whereby
three LCTCS schools—Delgado Community College, Nunez Community
College, and Northshore Technical Community College—will collaborate
to provide training. Industry partners are Greater New Orleans, Inc.,
Elmer Chocolate, Laitram, and McCormick. The program consists of an
industry-based curriculum designed to equip mechatronics technicians
with the necessary electrical, mechanical, and computer skills to work in
manufacturing and industrial maintenance environments.
Delgado River City Site /
Advanced Manufacturing Center
Workforce and technical training oered in Avondale.
• Aluminum Welding
• Industrial Maintenance
• Louisiana Transfer Degree
• Logistics
• Millwright
• OSHA 10
• OSHA 20
• Pipefitting
• Process Instrumentation & Control
• Science Lab Technician
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding
• Small Industrial Electrician
We build professionals!
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
City Park Campus | Building 9
615 City Park Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70119
504-671-6474
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT