The Center for Alternative Customized
College Education for Special Students
(Center for A.C.C.E.S.S.)

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CCBC PROGRAMS FOR SPECIAL STUDENTS

• Center for A.C.C.E.S.S.
• Single Step Program

CENTER FOR A.C.C.E.S.S.

Honoring Abilities and Needs

The Center for Alternative Customized College Education for Special Students (A.C.C.E.S.S.) provides customized contract training to agencies and providers working with individuals in the community who have developmental, emotional and physical disabilities. For more than four decades, CCBC's Center for A.C.C.E.S.S. has chosen to empower people by providing basic education, vocational preparation, life skills training and creative arts at both residential facilities and community day programs.

Success Starts Here

• Skills for living and working in the community.
• Confidence building in activities of daily living.
• Providing outlets for leisure skills and creativity.

Achieve

• GED Preparation and functional academics
• Enrichment and Adaptive Skills Training
• Independent and Community Living Skills
• Leisure time, education and recreation
• Vocational Transition
  

Course Offerings

• Academic Skills Enhancement
• Addiction Education
• Analyzing and Evaluating Current Issues
• Anger Management
• Art and Music
• Assertiveness Training
• Basic Math
• Basic Reading
• Basic Spanish
• Communication: Oral, Written and Listening Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Critical Reading
• Current Issues and Ideas
• Decision Making
• Developing Leadership Skills
• GED Preparation
• Gross Motor Skills
• Health and Wellness
• Independent Living Skills
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Job Readiness
• Journal Writing
• Keyboarding
• Language Arts - Basic Reading
• Legal Issues
• Life Skills Literacy
• Loss and Grief
• Lyric Writing
• Money Management
• Nutrition
• Personal Health Management
• Pottery: Form, Function and Design
• Sewing
• Sign Language
• Social Skills Training
• Stress Management
• Tai Chi and Yoga
• Time Management
• Vocational Readiness
• Vocational, Social and Communication Skills
  

For more information or to arrange classes for your organization, email Michael Tan or call 443-840-4355.

SINGLE STEP PROGRAM
For over 35 years, the Community College of Baltimore County Single Step Program has been changing lives by providing programs for adults with disabilities. Single Step provides students with academic, pre-vocational, social, and independent living skills necessary for success in college study, employment, and adult life.

Students' development is supported through:
• Basic skills instruction specifically designed for special learners.
• 6-1 student-teacher ratio.
• Community-based field trips.
• Interactive learning activities designed to connect learning with students' real lives, goals, and communities.

Transition Program Courses Include:

• Basic Psychology
• Basic Humanities
• Citizenship and Community
• Everyday Technology
• Healthy Cooking and Kitchen Safety
• Interpersonal Communication
• Language Arts
• Managing Your Adult Life
• Mathematics
• Organizing Your Time and Work
• Safety in Independent Travel
• Skills and Concepts for Employment
• Skills and Concepts for Independent Living
• Understanding the ADA
• Understanding the Human Body

Evening courses include:
• Beginning Literacy for Special Learners
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills

SINGLE STEP 99 HOUR CHILDCARE CONTINUING EDUCATION CERTIFICATE - Summer Session
Take advantage of this opportunity to earn the Maryland State 99 Hour Child Care Certificate tailored to the needs of special learners.

Courses include:
• Early Childhood Growth and Development
• Early Childhood Methods and Materials
• Interpersonal Communication
• Skills and Concepts for Employment
• Child Care Internship

Single Step Warehouse Technician Continuing Education Certificate
Start a career in the growing field of warehouse work! CCBC Single Step offers a 9-week summer training option in warehouse skills and safety, and forklift operation for individuals with learning differences and disabilities. Learn to drive two types of forklifts! Learn the methods of warehouse work! Put your skills to work during an 8-week internship in a working warehouse!

Clerical and Office Skills Continuing Education Certificate
Receive individualized instruction in general office processes and the use of basic office technology. Topics include telephone etiquette; writing memos and emails and taking messages; appropriate business language and etiquette; improving typing speed and accuracy; organizing and creating files; using standard office fax machines, copiers and voicemail; managing time, calendars and basic records and the independent employment skills needed to get and keep a job.

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 443-840-3262 or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu

SINGLE STEP EVENING COURSES
CCBC CATONSVILLE, DUNDALK, ESSEX

Single Step will offer evening courses in:
• Beginning Literacy for Special Learners
• Developmental Math
• Computer Literacy

Designed to address the needs of special learners, these courses teach students of all ability levels. They reach them at their level of academic and computer skills while bringing them forward into new levels of reading, everyday math and computer use.

Evening students learn to:
• Ready more fluently and understand what they read
• Spend carefully
• Understand and use money while managing personal finances
• Send and receive email
• Use the Internet efficiently, effectively and safely
• Use a computer for everyday living

How to register for Single Step Evening courses:

Contact the Single Step Office at 443-840-3262, or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu to receive registration information. When the Single Step office has received your completed and signed registration form with payment, you will be given course and orientation information.

SINGLE STEP INDEPENDENT TRAVEL TRAINING
CCBC DUNDALK
This 12-week course will present to learners of all ability levels the way to use every form of public transportation accessible in the state of Maryland. Instructor Marvin Bailey will help students learn to get where they want to go in the quickest and easiest way available.

Independent Travel Training students learn to:
• Use MTA bus, subway, light rail and commuter train
• Stay safe and secure using public transportation
• Use bus maps and the MTA website
• Interact safely and politely with bus drivers and fellow travelers
• Travel to work, home and recreation independently

Training the travel trainer
Learn the skills required to plan local travel for employment, independent living, and for courses.

Available weekdays.

This 48-hour course will teach you to:
• Create a travel plan
• Use a bus schedule
• Use a train and subway schedule (includes of light rail and commuter rail)
• Locate local travel information online
• Use public transportation safely

Personal Finance
This 44-hour course is designed to help you manage your personal finances more effectively for every day independent living.

Available evenings and weekends.

This course will teach you to:
• Create financial goals
• Maintain checking and savings accounts at a local bank
• Open checking accounts
• Become a more effective money manager
• Learn more effective money management habits

Professional Animal Workers (PAWS)
Earn a non-credit completion certificate in Basic Professional Animal Care! Skills will prepare you for the clerical, technological, and practical skills needed for entry level work in the field of animal care.

Computer Applications
Build on your current computer skills and learn appropriate computer use for the world of independent living and employment.

Available evenings and weekends.

This course will teach you to:
• Increase speed and accuracy while creating a variety of Word documents
• Use self-editing programs such as grammar and spell-check
• Use email and Internet skills
• Demonstrate understanding of safety issues related to sending and receiving emails
• Use the Internet
• Use text messaging
• Use mobile technology

Managing the Early Childhood Classroom
Gain hands on instruction in best practices for managing typical, challenging behaviors and situations within a daycare or preschool setting.

This is a weekend course.

This course will teach you to:

• Design a model of an early childhood classroom that is set up for success;
• Create a developmentally appropriate reward system
• Have positive reinforcement practices
• Set classroom rules and expectations
• Redirect undesirable preschool behavior

Science and the Young Child
Gain the necessary skills to give students hands on instruction in best practices for teaching early skills of scientific inquiry, and concepts of science to preschool age children within a daycare or preschool setting.

This is a weekend course.

This course will teach you to:
• Create one art based activity for preschool scientific inquiry
• Lead children through five activities for teaching science skills
• Lead one indoor activity for science learning
• Lead one outdoor activity for science learning
• Use safe practices for the teaching of science in preschool classrooms

Project Launch
CCBC Single Step wants to help prepare you to live independently! Project Launch is a new course cycle developed to prepare students with emotional disabilities to acquire the skills and manage the challenges of having your own household, successfully attending college, managing your finances, and managing your health, wellness, and your disability.

Courses Include:
• Skills and Concepts for Employment
• Personal Finance
• Skills and Concepts for College Success
• Skills and Concepts for Independent Living
• Managing Your Healthcare Needs

This career track is designed to meet the needs of students who:
• Have diagnosed emotional disabilities
• Have 6th grade reading and math levels or higher
• Have no recent necessity of hand-on behavior modification

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 443-840-3262 or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu