SkillsUSA

1. SkillsUSA LCTCS Louisiana

2. SkillsUSA is: A partnership of students, teachers and industry, working together to ensure America has a skilled work force Serves more than 286,000 student and professional members in all 50 states in 4,700 high schools and two year colleges nationwide. Members are enrolled in technical, skilled and service occupations, including health occupations Leadership, citizenship, and character development programs and activities

3. SkillsUSA offers: • Curriculum materials to help you integrate professional training into your current program • Professional Development Program Online • Chapter Standards recognition opportunities • Student2Student mentoring • Online Safety training • $1 million in scholarships available through the SkillsUSA Championships

4. SkillsUSA offers: • Curriculum materials to help you integrate employability skills into your current program • New College CSEP employability skills Career Skills Education Program (College) • CareerSafe • Workplace Readiness • Community Service • Chapter Activities: Professional development Employment, Social activities, Community service, Ways and means, Public relations, SkillsUSA Championships

5. SkillsUSA helps you: • Organize business and education partnerships • Over 1,500 corporations, trade associations and unions are affiliated with SkillsUSA at the national level • Partnerships can mean program funding • Partnerships keep you up to date • Local programs benefit

6. SkillsUSA Championships • Over $30 million in volunteer time and equipment • Over 2,000 volunteers • 84 contests • 4,850 contestants • 14,000 people attending

7. SkillsUSA ChampionshipsNational Medalist

8. LCTCS and SkillsUSA? Pertinent to Louisiana SkillsUSA and the Louisiana Community and Technical College System In the LCTCS board meeting of July 1999, the Academic Affairs Committee recognized by unanimous resolution all Louisiana SkillsUSA members, both professional and students who achieved national merit. In the address to the board regarding the program, Mr. Rabalais explained, "SkillsUSA is a program that is responsive to business and industry by promoting occupational and leadership skills and other assets such as employability skillsin students in order for them to make a smooth transition from school to the workplace." NOTICE OF BOARD ACTION During its meeting of February 9, 2000, the Louisiana Community and Technical College Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to encourage LTC faculty participation in student organizations, conferences, and activities, and to have Supervisor Jared Lord formulate a letter to the Directors of the LTC campuses expressing the Board's support of the SkillsUSA program. Dr. Jerry Pinsel, Interim Vice-President for Instruction, Learning and Inter-Institutional Cooperation Dr. Wayne Brown, LCTCS President ITEM F.2 PRESENTATION BY SUPERVISOR LORD ON SKILLS USA "BUILDING SKILLS FOR AMERICA" On motion of Supervisor Christopher, seconded by supervisor Trist, the committee of the Whole unanimously voted to encourage LTC faculty participation in student organizations' conferences and activities and to have Supervisor Lord formulate a letter to the Directors expressing the Board's support.

9. High School Alfred Bonnable High School Bossier Technical School Caddo Career Center College Street T & I Cuillier Career Center Grace King High School Port Barre High School Terrebonne Vo-Tech High School LTC-Lafourche Campus W.D. Smith Career Center College Acadian Campus Alexandria Campus Ascension Campus Baton Rouge Campus Charles B. Coriel Campus Delgado Community College Evangeline Campus Gulf Area Campus Lafayette Campus Lafourche Campus Mansfield Campus Morgan Smith Campus Natchitoches Campus Northwest Campus River Parishes Campus Sabine Valley Campus Shreveport-Bossier Campus Southern University A Shreveport T. H. Harris Campus Tallulah Campus Tech Area Campus Young Memorial Campus SkillsUSA Membership

10. Why SkillsUSA? For the student: • Gains self-esteem • Becomes a responsible citizen • Receives opportunities or jobs and contacts • Receives cutting-edge training • Is able to compete • Enjoys fun, travel, and excitement • Builds peer support network • Learns to be a professional worker

11. Why SkillsUSA? For the teacher: • Enrollment and Retention • Cutting-edge training • Professional curriculum • Respect • Student success • Student pride • SCANS standards

12. SkillsUSA as the tool for success • SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry • Working together to ensure that America • Has a skilled work force • We help each student excel

13. Plans to better integrate SkillsUSA as part of student life on campus • Present SkillsUSA to Council on Student Body Presidents meeting • LCTCS Conference Day Presentation – Student Organizations Providing to Opportunity for Engagement • Invite Advisory Committee’s to participate in the SkillsUSA Championships, and have a direct link to technical education • Increase linkages between secondary to postsecondary institutions • For Colleges – increase business partnerships on campus – assess employability skills development of students – increase internship opportunities for students – validate student performance to national industry standards

14. SkillsUSASTATE CONTACT • Larry Rabalais, SkillsUSA Louisiana Director • Phone: 225-922-1415 • E-Mail: lrabalais@Lctcs.edu