Central California Community Colleges Committed to Change Consortium (C6)

The C6 Consortium project will implement one strategy with eight guiding principles bringing expanded capacity and efficiency to the grant project. California's geographically immense San Joaquin valley covering 27,282 square miles presents challenges of delivering services to the potential target population of trainees as well as providing a large enough scope of employment opportunities in a given geographic area. The initial two years of the grant project will allow each college within the consortium to design and implement high quality training programs for individuals and industry partners in their area. The third year of the project will expand capacity and sustainability by duplicating these model programs within the consortium to other colleges who possess a pool of potential trainees and industries who could utilize the model curriculum and training provided by a host college. Efficient use of funds will be achieved by increasing capacity and reducing duplication of efforts by colleges within the consortium.