Bridges to Success

We are living in historic times, and for many Coloradans historic crisis. Men and women with years of experience and exceptional work skills suddenly find themselves jobless. Families who only a short while ago were putting away a few dollars for their savings or their kids’ schooling are now scrambling to cover basic needs. Are you one of the many who now find yourself stranded? Do you find that your hard-won skills and abilities are suddenly adrift because the bottom has fallen out of your business?

Helping adults survive and prosper is what La Plata County’s Bridges to Success initiative is all about. Providing advanced training in professionalism, finance management, and computer technology in order to re-tool workers for new and better opportunities in this harsh economy, Bridges to Success is now offering specialized, accelerated courses at sites in Bayfield, Cortez, Durango, Ignacio, and Silverton. Making a fast, profitable impact on the lives of families and working adults is our goal.

Call now and find out if you qualify for a tuition waiver! The classes feature certified, adult-level instructors, hands-on applications, options for portfolio-making, and include guest professionals speaking from various business and technology fields. Initial completions include opportunities to advance into college or to launch immediately into technical careers.

How it Works: Adults register with the BTS Navigator at their respective site (Deb Pace, Ignacio/Bayfield), complete eligibility documents, and enroll in one or more of the “core” modules. These modules mutually overlap with each other, since together they cover the essential skills and talents that businesses most desire in their prospective employees. In other words, 21^st-century workers are expected to be adept in economic and money skills (Financial Management), in digital technology (Computer/Internet Functions), and in customer/peer relations (Professional Culture) in order to achieve top productivity. They are the abilities that, research shows, chiefly lead to promotion and career advancement, or at least allow maximum flexibility in changing workplaces. Each of them deals with techniques and knowledges that are beyond current “basic” or high-school education.