Our Center for Educational Opportunity & Career Pathways has continued to help adult education students meet their personal goals of making progress toward earning their High School Equivalency credential and U.S. Citizenship preparation, improving their English proficiency, preparing to enter college, and gearing up to join or advance in the heavy machine operation, roofing, and childcare fields.
Want to get your H.S. diploma? Need help preparing for the U.S. Citizenship test, college prep, learning computer or other career skills? Improving your English skills? We can help with courses in English as a Second Language (ESL), High School Equivalency (GED &HiSET test prep in English and Spanish), U.S. Citizenship test prep, digital literacy, college readiness, heavy machine operation, roofing, English for Childcare Workers.
Through online classes, Our Center for Educational Opportunity & Career Pathways has continued to help adult education students meet their personal goals of making progress toward earning their High School Equivalency credential and U.S. Citizenship preparation, improving their English proficiency, preparing to enter college, and gearing up to join or advance in the heavy machine operation, roofing, and childcare fields.
Our center is excited to announce a new CDL (commercial driver's license) program starting in the Spring 2023 semester! Our Career Pathways Program Coordinator, and trainer from Safety Zone Credentialing, train students on a driving simulator for their driving licenses while our instructors help them to improve their English. This will expand on our Heavy Machine Operation course, which the second cohort of students is currently completing. Our staff also works closely with the students and Workforce Connections to ensure that the students receive funding to support their coursework and training. Last summer, thanks to a grant from the City of Albuquerque’s Economic Development Department, we began offering English for a Special Purposes class to help students pursue their goals in the childcare field while earning a stipend. Our instructors provided workplace English instruction and support in completing further education to earn the required child development certificate, including internship opportunities at Catholic Charities’ Children's Learning Center!
ESL
Catholic Charities offers to non-native English speakers to develop proficiency in grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and writing as well as build students' skills for success in college and the workplace. Students must have a computer or tablet or smartphone with an internet connection to participate, if students don’t have any device Catholic Charities will loan a computer for the semester.
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CITIZENSHIP
If you speak, read, and write basic English, you are ready to join our Citizenship Test Preparation course. You just need to register for the classes. If you do not speak, read, and write basic English we also provide English as a Second Language classes throughout the year. To become an American citizen, you must be able to read, write and understand Basic English. The course will teach you the basic English skills you’ll need to understand and answer the questions on the naturalization exam
HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCE
Our HSE program helps prepare adults of any age to take the GED/Hi-Set tests and obtain a high school equivalency diploma. We have Day, evening, and weekend classes
Our instructors will work with you, using the results of your pre-high school equivalency assessment test, to help identify the classes and topics where you need the most work. Classes are held online and available during the day, and at night.
The mission of Catholic Charities is to put faith in action to improve the lives of those in need. We provide services to promote self-sufficiency, strengthen families, fight poverty, and build community. As the local 501(c)(3) affiliate of Catholic Charities USA, we remain dedicated to finding solutions to some of the most pressing social challenges individuals, children and families face regardless of race, religion, color, country of origin, disabilities, gender, age, or sexual orientation.

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