Southwest Solutions Project at Southwest Tennessee Community College

SOLUTIONS will serve 550 Participants and 415 will complete a TAACCCT funded program of study. Two hundred and sixty (260) will complete credit hours and 230 will earn credentials. Participants will complete an Industrial Readiness Training (IRT) course, resulting in CRC and OSHA certifications, along with a comprehensive skills assessment to be charted on an online WorkingCounts CAEL Portfolio. Participants will be connected immediately to Employer Partners, who helped build the IRT courses. Participants also will be given access to Industrial Process Training, a stackable and latticed training model leading to certificates in Industrial Process Control Technology (IPCT) and entrepreneurship. This training will seamlessly integrate into an International Society of Automation (ISA) certification program and an IPCT AAS degree with articulation to a four-year degree. SOLUTIONS also allows on-the-job (OTJ) and entrepreneurial training opportunities, as well as online components, asynchronous instruction, and integrated data tracking for continuous quality improvement. Special consideration will be given in discovering the delivery of online components on mobile devices. SOLUTIONS also will focus on building capacity at Southwest to address other industry sectors. In particular, SOLUTIONS will expand the ability of staff and faculty to collect and track data of all Participants, benefiting Participants and all partner Work Groups.