Community Education

.516 0 credit

Written English Review for Spanish Speakers

Covers English grammar, punctuation and spelling. Improves written English skills for the workplace setting, including job applications, memos, correspondence and reports. Designed for intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers. 

.517 0 credits

GED Preparation for Home Schooled Students

Covers basic skills needed to successfully pass the General Education Development tests.

.601 0 credit

Foreign and Sign Language

Introduces beginners to basic vocabulary and conversational skills in a variety of languages including French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and German.

.603 0 credit

Sign Language

Introduces basic skills in American Sign Language.

.656 0 credits

Growing Through Divorce

Learn coping skills for beginning again including forgiveness, single parenting, getting your life in order, establishing healthy relationships, custodial and non-custodial issues, and managing the legal process.

.657 0 credit

Caregiving

Includes reactions to aging parents, physical health changes, psychological problems (memory loss, depression), parent's increased dependency, finances, family roles/relationships, and options for providing care.

.658 0 credit

Parenting/Family Life

Explores strategies for building healthy family relationships. Applies understanding of time use, priorities, standards and expectations in household management.

.659 0 credit

Financial Planning in Retirement

Learn the concerns, misconceptions, and realities of retirement in the U.S. Covers the factors that could deflate retirement savings such as taxes, inflation, and medical costs. Learn to grow hard-earned money, distribution strategies to avoid unnecessary taxation, and ways to leave a legacy to loved ones.

.664 0 credit

Investing

Explores legal tax advantages, goal setting techniques, and risk taking, and helps make sense of investing in a complex world.

.665 0 credits

Family Relationships

Explores relationships within the family. Includes discussion of the traits of functional and dysfunctional families, the impact of early childhood experiences on adults including cognitive distortions and addictive behaviors, and surveys therapeutic approaches dealing with issues for adults who grew up in dysfunctional families.

.665.1 0 credits

Parent/Child Relationships

Reduces frustration levels in parents by helping them understand child development, positive behavior management, self esteem, and logical and natural consequences of child rearing. Strategies for building harmonious relationships in blended families will be identified.

.701 0 credit

Computer Applications

Provides hands-on training in a variety of computer applications.

.779 0 credit

Volunteer Training

Explores the skills needed for helping others as community volunteers.

.791 0 credit

Touch Typing

Focuses on the skills needed to type faster with fewer errors.

.793 0 credit

Writing to Get Published

Introduces a simplified approach to publishing and selling books including standard submission formats and publishing contracts.

.794 0 credit

Home Buying

Learn about the basics of choosing and qualifying for a new home. Covers mortgages, closing costs, and insurance.

.850 0 credit

Physical Fitness/Health

Provides physical fitness classes and various consumer health topics that encourage and promote a healthier lifestyle.

.852 0 credit

First Aid/CPR

Provides training and practice in first aid and CPR techniques.

.853 0 credit

Nutrition

Focuses on good nutrition habits for individuals an families.

.905 0 credit

Basic Boating Skills and Safety

Covers the basic skills needed to become a safe boater. Meets the basic state requirements determined by the Oregon Marine Board and Oregon Coast Guard Auxiliary for Oregon boaters.

9.011 1 continuing education unit

Training for Non-profit Employees

Offers training for non-profit employees in a variety of topics.

9.016 1 continuing education unit

Art Workshop for Professionals

Explores various techniques in a variety of media to enhance the skills of professional artists. Skills in preparing portfolios for the new medium, marketing and presentation standards, and strategies for purchasing specific materials and supplies are included.

9.038 2.4 continuing education units

Conditioning Training for Athletes

Utilizes a scientific approach to review modes of training for athletes. Pertinent anatomy, biomechanics, injury mechanics, and current concepts of strength and conditioning training will be taught. Provides new and experienced professionals with a multitude of training techniques to maximize all facets of sports performance.

9.050 1.6 continuing education units

Small Engine Maintenance

Covers common troubleshooting and maintenance requirements of two- and four-stroke gas engines. Emphasis is on equipment designed for commercial use where service schedules and troubleshooting are a daily part of operation. Prerequisite: Employment in landscape or other fields requiring use of two- and four-stroke engines.

9.257 .6 continuing education units

Web Site Development

Provides education in creating an Internet Web site to be used as a marketing tool for business owners and managers.

9.411 1.6 continuing education units

Wilderness First Aid

In collaboration with Wilderness Medicine Institute and The Siskiyou Field Institute, teaches recognition, treatment principles, decision-making skills, and prevention of wilderness emergencies. Covers wilderness medicine topics for people 16 and older who travel and work in the outdoors. Certification is valid for two years.

9.412 3 continuing education units

Adult Foster Care Provider Training

Meets state regulations for becoming an adult care provider. Course covers the rules and regulations needed for becoming an adult foster care provider.

9.424 1.6 continuing education units

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

Covers the signs those considering suicide often use to signal distress and covers ways caregivers can respond to prevent immediate risk.

9.480 2.5 continuing education units

Parish Nurse Training

Introduces interactive work and play, mediation, and creative worship. Explores the role, functions, and ethics of parish nursing, and focuses on the skills needed to promote health and healing.

9.490 3.6 continuing education units

Activity Director Training for Residential Care Facilities

Teaches necessary skills needed to acquire state certification as an activity director within a care facility. Addresses the responsibilities for documentation, activity coordination, staffing, resident’s rights, understanding of physical and behavioral changes associated with aging, communicating and motivating residents, and ethics in the workplace.

9.910  1 continuing education unit

Health and Safety Series

Covers setting up a safe classroom environment, promoting good health and nutrition, and arranging early childhood classrooms so that children become self-directed in their learning.  Includes the CDA functional areas of safe, healthy, and learning environment. Completion of all five modules is equivalent to ECE126A.

9.911 1 continuing education unit

Building Blocks for Child Care

Covers promoting the development of self-control in young children through positive guidance. Includes the CDA functional area of guidance. Completion of all five modules is equivalent to ECE135C.

9.912 3 continuing education units

Early Words for Child Care

Covers promoting children’s communication skills through listening, speaking, emergent reading, and emergent writing. Includes the CDA functional areas of communication. Completion of at least five modules is equivalent to ECE126C.

9.931 1 continuing education unit

Child Care Provider Training

Provides training for child care providers to enhance skills in building positive relationships with parents. Increases knowledge and application of early childrearing techniques, and covers resources available to providers and children in the region, state and nationally.