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Wednesday, January 17, 2001
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Volume XXXIV, Issue
Family Resource Center
expands
Ideare progr
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
After three years of construction, the newly completed wing doubles the capacity of the YMCA Child Development Center and makes a new kindergarten class possible.
STEVE NIELSEN
News Editor
Several of Clackamas’ youngest
attendees will be on hand next
Tuesday, Jan. 23, for a celebration
and dedication of the newly com
pleted wing of the Elizabeth
McClung Brod Family Resource
Center.
The dedication and celebration,
held from 4-5:30 p.m. in the center,
will include guest speakers, guided
tours of the new wing, entertain
ment by student musicians and a
Mother Goose storyteller.
The new wing adds six more
rooms to the YMCA Child Devel
opment Center and more than
doubles the licensed capacity of
the center. Construction on the
new wing started three years ago
and has been funded mostly by
private parties and the CCC Foun
dation, a separate charitable non
profit organization dedicated to
raising funds for the college.
“In the last ten years, the center
has gone from being licensed for
44 children to 180,” said Judy
Kling, director of the YMCA Child
Development Center (CDC).
The addition made it possible
for the center to offer a kindergar
ten program for the first time, this
year, to children of parents who
work or go to school full-time. The
new wing also enables the center
to provide care on a more short
term basis.
Kathleen Smith is an administra
tive assistant at the college. Her
son Jeremy has been attending the
CDC since he was seven weeks
old.
“It’s been a godsend,” said
Smith. “I don’t know what I would
have done without the facility.”
The center provides care prima
rily for the children of Clackamas
students, but also serves many
other community families. Some
parents have continued to use the
center for childcare even after they
finished at the college and moved
on to work in the community.
There are about 180 children en
rolled at the center and an addi
tional 300 on the waiting list. The
demand for childcare is increasing.
“We see more and more older
students going back to college
who need a place for their kids,”
said Kling. “It’s wonderful watch
ing the kids grow up.”
The center is open Monday
through Friday from 7 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Monthly fees range from $75 to $600
depending on the ages of children
and how many days a week they are
at the center. According to Kling,
over half of the families that use the
center receive financial assistance
to help them with the cost.
Kling is one of the original 16
people that staffed the CDC when
it started in 1991 and was housed
in temporary green buildings pro
vided by the college. When the
contract for operation of the cen
ter passed from Mt. Hood Council
of Campfire, a youth service orga
nization, to thé YMCA in July of
1998, the staff decided to stay with
the center.
“There’s no measure of how im
portant [the center] is,” said Kling.
“There’s a shortage of quality
childcare and we feel that we step
up to the plate to help fill that
shortage.”
Grant expands PGE training
DIANA SCRIVNER
Editor-in-Chief
Clackamas
College’s
Wilsonville Oregon Advance
ment Technology Center’s (OAT)
partnership with PGE has re
cently been awarded a $52,000
grant from the Oregon Workforce
Investment Board.
The grant, which goes into ef
fect in February, will be used to
develop a Workforce Readiness
Certificate Program for women
and minorities and focuses on
training workers when the com
pany shifts job duties.
“The federal legislation wants
people to be in, or enter into, the
workforce as quickly as possible
so that the economy keeps go
ing,” explained Glenn Ferris, as
sociate dean for industrial pro
grams. “So by retraining work training and the grant pays for
ers, you increase their skill lev their schooling.
els and reduce the possibility of
A new phase to’the training
layoffs.”
program with PGE will begin later
PGE has been training employ this year with the building of an
ees at the college’s OAT center outside training center at the
for over two years. They train OAT center. It will include high
them using a power grade rise power lines and wires for stu
simulator so stu- /
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reading, recycling,
garage work, communications, as
well as learning job skills as line
men and service inspectors.
“We’re retraining them to go
to a different phase of employ
ment within their company,” said
Ferris. “These jobs also tend to
be higher paid jobs, family wage
jobs.”
Employees are paid during job
College’s connec
tion with PGE provides many in
ternship and cooperative work
experience opportunities for
those seeking employment with
the company.
“A lot of our programs prepare
students for work at PGE,” said
Ferris. “It is such a huge com
pany that there are a lot of as
pects of business involved.”
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
Skateboarders at Clackamette park in Oregon City test the
new facility Sunday. The free community skate park officially
opened to the public last weekend. Rollerbladers and BMXers
also came to try it out The hours of the park are from dawn to
dusk.