EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Community Advancement Division Council
Meeting Notes
November 14, 2012
Present: Martha Aaron, Jose Anaya, Alexis Estwick, LauraLee Garinger, Veronica Mendoza, Megan Ruane,
Alin Sanchez, Traci Traina and Maricela Vital
A scheduled meeting of the Community Advancement Division Council convened at 1:30 pm at the Business
Training Center in Room 2.
Review of Minutes from October 17th meeting
Minutes approved as written.
Department Updates
o Career Pathways – Megan Ruane:
Concurrent enrollment: Lennox Academy is having a little trouble, but we are getting Da Vinci students
in the system. Majority of students have been enrolled. Field Trip: Student excursion planned to see
Endeavor Space Shuttle. On December 14th there will be an Information Conference. Math tutoring is
provided at the WIT Center through scheduled appointments.
o Center for Applied Competitive Technologies –Traci Traina:
1) North Orange County JDIF (Job Development Incentive Fund) and RTF (Rapid Training Fund)
grants: Through our JDIF grant we continue to offer Machine Tool Technology 101abcd at
Compton Center. Through this grant 28 students have gained employment in Aerospace Fastener
companies.
2) National Science Foundation (NSF): The new NSF Center grant proposal has been submitted.
The Principal Investigators (PIs) attended the NSF ATE (Advanced Technology Education)
Conference last month. We were able to network with other colleges currently holding ATE Center
Grants.
3) H1B Technical Skills Training grant: Holding regular meetings with our partners (Cerritos College
and North Orange County Community College District) to review timelines and set up training. The
focus of this grant is to train unemployed and incumbent workers.
4) Workforce Investment Partnership (WIP): We continue to hold summer classes at Cerritos College,
El Camino College and Compton Center for high school students. We have exceeded our grant
deliverables by two-thirds.
5) Training: The CACT is conducting a 30-hour Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) course
for Northrop Grumman engineers. Training is being held once a week from September 19th –
November 21st at the Space Park facility. A 24-hour Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) course
started November 3rd and will end November 24th. Attendees will be taking the ASQ Certification
Exam on Saturday, December 1st.
6) Professional Development: CACT Retreat – Director and staff will be attending a working retreat on
November 30th to work on a Department matrix for the upcoming year.
o Center for International Trade Development – not in attendance:
o Community Education:
1) Winter/Spring 2013 catalog is now available on campus. Catalogs will continue to be distributed to
the community over the next few days.
2) Room reservations, contracts and all other tasks are finishing up for the current semester and are
still in process for the winter/spring 2013 semester.
3) We have some great gift-giving classes included in this issue. Gift Certificates are available as well.
4) Some of the great classes and events coming up in the new year include repeat of Adult Pirate
Camp, Mother-Daughter Tea (Tiki-themed), a couple of excursions including trips to the California
Science Center to see Endeavor, Olive Oil Tasting, and more.
5) We have several new classes in partnership with the Business Training Center which are listed in
our catalog and website.
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Foster Care – Alexis Estwick:
1) Model Approaches-Partnerships (PS MAPP): Graduated 13 individuals.
2) Foster and Kinship Care Education (FKCE): Enrollment is increasing. There are now ten to eleven
participants per class. F-Rate Medically Fragile class graduated 19 attendees. The class was
administered by the County Public Health Nurse from the Medically Fragile Unit. We have updated
curriculum in the new manual. Schedule through February for all DF&W for certification classes
through June. Included Trauma and Training for Trainers.
3) YESS (Youth Empowerment Strategies for Success): Funds extended to June 30th. Conducting 2nd
class for this semester with 10 participants.
4) Providing YESS/FKCE Financial Aid Workshop on February 12th (mandate class) for youth (juniors
and up) and parents (foster or family).
5) Project Early Start: In planning stage of a meet and greet for counselors to identify students to
invite families. Working closely with Financial Aid.
6) 1st Year Students: Request for financial literacy project/workshop. Target population for Project
Early Start.
Center for Customized Training (CCT) – Maricela Vital:
Training continues under three ETP grants:
1) Under ET12-0143 Contract (2 year): The last two customers scheduled to conclude training by end
of this month. An ETP monitor visit in December/January will finalize the contract.
2) Under ET11-0806 AB118 Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Contract: First
Responder Training courses have resumed. We have training scheduled through February 2013
with our training partners.
3) Under ET13-125 Contract (2 year): To date, a total of fourteen companies have or are participating
in training. Training is scheduled through March 2013.
Contract Education:
4) City of Torrance finalized their Core Customer Service Academy training as well as their
Development Dimensions International (DDI) training. They will resume next year.
Other Activity:
5) New marketing pieces are being developed to promote our ETP and Contract Education programs.
Small Business Development Center – Laura Garinger:
1) The SBDC is busy trying to achieve the goals the Long Beach Lead Center set for the year. What
has hurt drastically is the clients that have been coded SBJA (Job Acts of 2010). These are SBDC
clients but they are coded SBJA because they are either in government contracting, restaurants,
technology, manufacturing, food packaging or import/export clients. Many of them have had
successful milestones, but they are not counted towards our SBA goals. There are goals set for
SBJA, but the focus for the SBA is the goals counted for our regular SBDC clients.
2) We do have capital infusion goals in the pipeline, but some may not be funded until after the first of
the year.
3) The El Camino SBDC will join the Los Angeles Regional SBDC Network for the year-end luncheon
on December 5th to recognize small business successes. We have a client chosen who has agreed
to attend. He owns several markets and has been funded recently with a $250,000 loan with the
help of our SBDC.
4) A lot of our year-end work workshops have been cancelled until after the first of the year.
Enrollment is typically slow during the holiday season.
Workplace Learning Resource Center – not in attendance:
Discussion
Economic Workforce Development (EWD) Changes: Movement to change how we do business is taking
place. We are part of a regional consortium.
Election Results/College Response: Proposition 30 passed. There will not be any cuts or impact this year.
Sections may be added next year. Measure E also passed, which includes $350 million for construction and
other improvements.
Adjournment at 2:30 pm
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