OlyCAP & the LC - pt. 1

In Fall of 2007, Karolina Anderson approached the WSU Learning Center-North Olympic Peninsula in her new position with the Olympic Community Action Program (OlyCAP). Karolina was familiar with the LC from her participation in the Bard College Clemente Course that takes place here. After graduating from the course she came to the LC for counseling and as a consequence enrolled in, and graduated from, The Evergreen State College.

After getting her degree Ms. Anderson came back to Jefferson County and began working on the Community Jobs program at OlyCAP to assist those in her community with similar hurdles to those she had had prior to beginning her path to further education. As part of her new job, she asked if we would collaborate on working with her clients in conjunction with WorkSource, a State-run employment assistance agency. She believed our strength in the technical & computing fields could greatly help those in need of these skills for the contemporary workforce.

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