CCOIC offers a variety of training programs and workshops. Learn more about Virtual English as a Second Language and GED classes that are accepting registration NOW!
Please call Maryann Stravous at 610-235-4588 or email mstravous@cc-oic.org so she can register you NOW!
VIRTUAL ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES
Virtual free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes will be held every Monday through Thursday from 9AM to 12PM and every Tuesday and Thursday from 6PM to 9PM.
Virtual ESL Morning
Virtual ESL Evening
IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL GED CLASSES
CCOIC offers classes to help you pass your GED test. In person classes are held Monday through Thursday from 9AM to 4PM and Friday from 9AM to 4PM. Virtual classes are held every Monday and Wednesday from 6PM to 9PM.
The safety of our staff and clientele is our highest priority. As our County is now in the green phase, we have been thinking through necessary operational changes to safely conduct program operations. We are resuming operations in July with the CDC guidelines in mind and the goal of exercising an abundance of caution and precaution. Staff will be following these protocols:
Join CCFWG and PathWays PA and hear insight from Joyce Chester, President and CEO of Chester County-OIC in this virtual dive into the latest Self-Sufficiency Standard for Pennsylvania, a report that includes data on Chester County households overlooked and under-counted in the federal poverty level.
This workshop is designed for both entrepreneurs thinking about opening their first business and existing business owners looking for a “checkup.” Presented in partnership with the Small Business Adminstration and City of Coatesville.
I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Mom. Mom.
I can’t breathe.
As a mother myself, these words bring instant panic, fear and reaction. If I saw my son, my brother, my nephew, my cousin voicing these words on news feed over and over again, those instant reactions would ultimately move into raging anger.
That’s what we see in our streets repeated all over this country. Chester County OIC wishes to bring honor to the name of George Floyd and so many like him, who have lost their lives in the struggle of being Black or of color in America.
The County Health Department opens first testing site at Gordon Early Literacy Center! The Center will be the FIRST public site for the County with diagnostic testing
“Who would have thought the job I love so much could kill
me.” Christiana
The words of our former C.N.A. graduate haunt me every
day. Christiana is now an LPN at Chester
County Hospital. Like all front line
workers, she endures every day, caring for those in dire need while risking her
own safety and that of her young family.
“The virus is here and it’s real. Don’t wait for it to change
your life, change your behavior.”
By now you have heard the reports of one (1) COVID-19 positive case in the City of Coatesville. The bells are now ringing close to home. It is time to step up our commitment to inform this community of what is inevitable, more positive cases.
Chester County Opportunities Industrialization Center is a non-profit community- based organization that has been meeting the needs of the economically disadvantaged individuals throughout the community.
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