The Adult Education Department at the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center has been offering technical training, continuing education programs, and support services for over 30 years. We provide the skills to match your career goals and the area's employment needs. Through extensive market research we determine what training programs will ensure successful employment upon graduation. That research includes determining job trends as well as current employer training needs.

Our goals are simple. We train the area's unemployed and under employed. We re-train and upgrade worker skills and capabilities. Most of all, in cooperation with local and state agencies, assocations and service providers involved with training, we help people find jobs.

Mission Statement:
Our primary mission is to provide the highest quality, noncredit vocational and professional educational programs and services to adults and businesses in Ashland and West Holmes counties and surrounding areas in cooperation with neighboring Career Centers and in support of Ohio's workforce development needs.

Vision Statement:
"The Full-Service Adult Vocational Education Center of the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center is the primary source for adult and continuing education services for Ashland and West Holmes counties. These educational services provide accessible opportunities for adults to acquire the knowledge and skills that allow them to (1) upgrade themselves in their present occuptions, (2) re-train in their curent occupational endeavor, or (3) prepare for another occupation suitable to their abilities. Emphasis is on the importance of high standards of performance, development of professional skill. In addition, the Career Center's Full-Service Adult Vocational Education Center is our area's primary industry and business resource center for professional, consultative, and technical assistance services, as well as the most reliable source of qualified new employees".

4/8/2009