Workforce Skills Training

This 63-hour program prepares participants seeking a position in an office setting. Learn and master the skills you need to be successful as an administrative support specialist by learning the basics of office competencies, records and information management, financial reporting and procedures, time and workstation management, communication and soft skills, coordination, supervising, planning and advancing your career, and ongoing professional development. Program the NACPB certification exam fee.

The Accounting Fundamentals program is dedicated to an emphasis on the significance of accounting as the true groundwork for the participant's professional, educational, vocational, and business objectives. The program develops the participant's understanding of bookkeeping and accounting, the basic bookkeeping functions, analyzing business transactions, the general journal and ledger, accounting adjustments, the monthly and annual closing process, and preparing financial statements. A study of payroll procedures, taxing entities, and reporting requirements of local, state, and federal taxing authorities in a manual and computerized environment.

The Accounting Fundamentals program is dedicated to an emphasis on the significance of accounting as the true groundwork for the participant's professional, educational, vocational, and business objectives. The program develops the participant's understanding of bookkeeping and accounting, the basic bookkeeping functions, analyzing business transactions, the general journal and ledger, accounting adjustments, the monthly and annual closing process, and preparing financial statements. The QuickBooks section of the course will provide instruction on how to set up and track accounts payable and receivable and balance sheets. Examine how to forecast cash flow, produce profit and loss statements, and track income and expenses by jobs or departments This training focuses on application rather than theory. Examples and real business applications enliven this training and demonstrate the relevance of what you are learning.

This program will prepare students for employment with companies that have implemented team-oriented design, supply chain logistics, quality, and sustainable practices within the manufacturing environment. Topics presented include: Global supply chain logistics life cycle; Logistics environment; Safety principles; Material handling and equipment operation; Quality control principles; Product receiving and storage; Order processing; Packaging and shipment; Inventory control; Safe handling of hazmat materials; Evaluation of transportation modes; Dispatch and tracking.

Community Health Workers (CHWs), or promotores de salud, are non-medical public health workers who connect communities to health care and social service providers. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) established the CWH program, in accordance with Health and Safety Code Chapter 48, to operate a program designed to train and educate persons who act as promotoras or CHWs.

CHWs demonstrate skills in the eight core competencies and must meet the following certification requirements: 

1. Texas resident
2. Must be 16 year old
3. Training – Completion of an approved DSHS certified 160-hour competency-based Community Health Worker training program.

OR

4. Experience – At least 1000 cumulative hours of community health work services within the most recent three (3) years. Experience will be verified with the supervisor(s) noted in the application.

Our goal is simple — to help small businesses start and grow. Small Business Management Entrepreneurship helps meet the needs of current small business owners and aspiring small business owners.

Together with TAMIU Small Business Development Center (SBDC), LC Adult Education & Literacy department offer morning and evening courses available in-person and online via Cisco Webex. Limited seating for in-person attendance. Completion of this program will enhance your management skills and provide a good foundation for success.