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Georgia Quick Start is the nation's #1-ranked training program available at no cost to qualified companies
Tuition-free technology training to unemployed or underemployed adults for careers as IT professionals.
Free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24. Benefits include Free Training, Free Housing, Free Meals, Recreational Activities, Living Allowance.
Are you a graduating senior who is not attending college in the fall? Then this program is for you! Serve as reading coaches and attend the college readiness gap year program.
A program for young people ages 18 to 26; receive one year of free hands-on training, real-world corporate connections and access, a six-month internship, and unparalleled support. Stipends and college credits are available for some students.
AmeriCorps is a national service program modeled after the “Peace Corps. Benefits include a modest living allowance, training and professional development and for full-time AmeriCorps Members some may be eligible to receive health care and child care.
Westside Works Culinary Academy
Westside Works offers a 6-week Culinary Training Program with hands-on learning experience in a professional commercial kitchen learning health and safety training, knife skills and fundamental cooking techniques and an opportunity to obtain a Food managers Servsafe certification
Meet Chef Tish, Westside Works Culinary Academy Instructor, and Chef Bre, chef
Westside Works Construction Ready Program
If you are looking for a head-start in construction, this program delivers the training and the credentials that will kickstart your career. Construction Education Foundation of Georgia’s nationally-recognized Construction Ready Program is an nationally accredited, four-week training and certification program. NCCER is recognized by the construction industry as the training and career development standard for the construction professional
Google Career Certificates
5 different certificates available!
Learn job-ready skills in fast growing fields like IT, project management, data analytics, and UX designat your own pace and time. No experience necessary to enroll and financial assistance available.
Learn more at grow.google