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MCC Awarded Funding to Partner with Lowell Healthcare Businesses
MCC will team up with Lowell Healthcare business to continue to prepare students for the workforce thanks to a new grant
Middlesex Community College will continue to prepare students for the workforce thanks to a new grant. The college will team up with Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell General Hospital, MassHire Lowell Career Center and Community Teamwork Inc. to train medical assistants to work in Lowell.
MCC is one of 18 organizations to be awarded funding for job training that partners institutions with two or more businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college received $250,000 as part of the first Senator Kenneth J. Donnelly Workforce Success Grant.
This project is funded by a Senator Kenneth J. Donnelly Workforce Success Grant (Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund FY’19 Appropriation) through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development and is administered by the Commonwealth Corporation.
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Katherine Gehly, Dean of Nursing & Allied Health at MCC, said, “The funding is to provide an education and training in Medical Assisting for a target population (unemployed or underemployed) who otherwise might not have the financial means or social supports to access higher education.”
MCC’s Medical Assisting certificate program will offer two additional 15 person modular cohorts to prepare participants for a national certification exam to become certified medical assistants. Medical assistants can then work within the healthcare field, such as at hospitals and clinics.
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Participants will receive course materials, counseling, job search assistance and funds for childcare, fuel assistance, benefits enrollment, financial education and housing support from MCC, MassHire and CTI – all factors that can hinder a person’s access to education.
The purpose of the grant is to help unemployed and underemployed job seekers gain skills that qualify them for higher-paying employment that also meet the needs of businesses throughout Massachusetts.
Gehly said the program, “is an entry into healthcare and education that could become a career ladder to continue on into other MCC healthcare programs.”
For more information, please visit our website https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/ or contact MCC’s Dean of Nursing & Allied Health, Katherine Gehly, at GEHLYK@middlesex.mass.edu.
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