Care Center

The Mission of the CARE Center is to facilitate student recruitment, preparation, engagement, retention, graduation, and completion of employment objectives. The CARE Center staff offers a comprehensive academic and personal support system designed to assist all students in successfully completing their chosen educational goals. The CARE Center staff works closely with each other and collaborates with faculty, staff and administration of the College to ensure student success. All services are always free and staff schedules are extremely flexible to match student needs.

The CARE Center staff provides assistance in a wide variety of student support services, including:

1. Problem Resolution Assistance - Provides personalized assistance with almost any problem affecting academic performance.
2. Career Counseling Services - Provides tools for career planning and for conducting a job search. Career Services assists current and former students and graduates in obtaining employment by enhancing job readiness and employability skills and by helping students assess and redesign career paths. We provide Job Search Assistance by posting jobs on the student intranet, computer search assistance and Department of Labor partnership assistance. Services we offer include:
   • Resume Assistance and Evaluation
   • Interview Preparation
   • Career Exploration
   • Job Referrals
   • Computers for Student use
   • Career Fairs
   • Internet Access to Job Sites
   • Wage Inquiries
   • Career Counseling
   • Instructional Videos
   • Reference Materials
3. Job Search Assistance - Provides job posting, computer search assistance and Department of Labor partnership assistance.
4. Academic Counselor Services - Provides the opportunity to share concerns and questions with someone who is familiar with our college's administrative procedures and available resources.
5. Success Links - Provides resources designed to help students with academic assistance, life skills, study skills and much more.
6. Early Alert System and Midterm Grade Reports - Early Alert System - The Early Alert Program is designed to identify students who may be demonstrating behaviors that show they may be at risk of academic difficulty or failure in their educational endeavors at Columbus Technical College. By identifying these students, the staff of the CARE Center can attempt to address their needs, thereby increasing the likelihood of their success. The primary goal of this program is to assist faculty and staff in improving the motivation and performance of underachieving students in an effort to better Columbus Technical College’s retention of these students. Additionally, identified students will also have a chance to work more closely with their professors in hopes of improving their academic performance.
7. Advise 5 Mentoring program - Provides support to any student through assignment of a mentor at the student’s request
8. Community Resource Book/Library - Provides information on many community based assistance resources. The resource book will house information on resources available to our students dealing with, but not limited to:
   • Available Child Care Options
   • Transportation Options
   • Tutorial Services
   • Healthcare Resources and Information
   • Special Needs Services and Support Organizations
   • Local Support Groups and Schedule of Meetings
9. The CARE Center offers FREE quarterly workshops to students who would like to improve their grades and/or study skills. Samples are:
   • Test-Taking Strategies
   • Time Management
   • Note-Taking
   • Study Skills
   • Learning Skills
   • Stress Management
   • Resume Writing
10. The CARE Center Student Success Gateway is an ANGEL course that provides links for job search, career aptitude surveys, and other useful tools for students in help them succeed in their college career."

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