Vocational/Life Skills Programs

Introduces masonry, carpentry, electrical, HVAC and plumbing.

Need Addressed:  Employment

This program provides an overview of safety applications on a construction site as well as training on governmental regulations.

Need Addressed:  Employment

This course provides entry-level information about employee rights; employer responsibilities; how to file a complaint; how to identify and prevent job related hazards. 

Need Addressed:  Employment

Alpha promotes daily living skills and encourages character development. All classes are biblically based and open to anyone, regardless of religious affiliation. The program includes lessons on addiction prevention, understanding marriage, understanding parenthood and managing finances.

Needs Addressed:  Attitudes; behavior; life skills, family

Library of Congress Braille Certification in the areas of , Literary, Nemeth, Music, Foreign Language and Proofreading.

Need addressed:  Life skills

Provides classroom instruction and hands-on training in the area of copper wiring using interactive technology boards.

Need addressed:  Employment 

Provides classroom instruction and hands-on training in the area of telecommunications using interactive technology boards.  

Need addressed:  Employment

Classroom and Project based learning in the area of carpentry.  Subjects include care and use of tools, safety, work habits, fundamental math, communication skills.  Application acceptance and GED required. 

Needs addressed:  employment.

The class helps participants realize that although they made mistakes and poor choices, that they are worthwhile and matter.  That by investing in themselves through service, they can find fulfillment.  

Helps participants develop a resume, prepare for interviews and work on job skills.

Need area addressed:  Employment

Participants are provided with nutrition and fitness training.

Need addressed:  Life skills

Instruction and training in shaping, finishing, and refinishing damaged, warn or used furniture or new high grade furniture to specification.

Need Addressed:  Employment

This program, delivered by a wellness expert, provides workshops on preventative health education and nutrition, such as Men's Birth Control; Date Abuse; Bullying; Gender Boxes; and Hygiene.

Need addressed:  Health.

Presentations provided by former inmates of NDCS, or inmates in the community discussing the struggles they experienced on their journey through NDCS and release.

Needs addressed:  Support; outside interest; life skills.

Training in industrial mechanics

Needs Addressed:  Employment

Instruction and training to operate and tender multiple machine tools setters.

Need addressed:  Employment

Helps people find competitive jobs that are based on the person's preferences and abilities, developing resumes, completing job applications, preparing for interviews.

Need addressed: employment

Provides ongoing community based support services to participants including advocating and supporting participants who want to find housing; referral and assistance obtaining other community services.

Needs addressed:  support and life skills

Assists individuals with education, training, workforce and transition support.  

Need addressed:  education and employment support

Workshop to learn how to creat and stick to a budger, understand and manage credit, and build savings realistically.  

Need addressed:  Life skills

Comprehensive training in mandated job safety requirements and guidelines.

Need addressed:  Employment

Measures/certifies skills needed for job success.  Used by employers, educators and others  to provide evidence that job seekers have the skills employers are looking for.  

Need addressed:  Vocational Life skills

Provides basic electrical training.

Needs addressed:  employment and life skills

Develops basic employment soft skills such as interviewing, resume building, application completion, appropriate work behavior.

Need area addressed:  Employment 

Forklift operating and use training.

Need addressed:  Employment.

Learning and practicing meditation through body movements.

Need addressed":  Life skills

Educates participants on healthy eating, thinking and exercise.

Need addressed:  Life skills

Life skills and mentoring program

Needs addressed:  Employment, reentry family

Instruction and training in the binding of books and other publications, finishing products by hand or machine.  Operate binding and finishing machines.  

Released and Restored provides life skills training for employment, finances and consumer education. The program also focuses on helping individuals learn critical thinking skills, recognize distorted thinking and develop techniques to address problem areas.

Needs Addressed:  Support; pro-social/outside interest

This program targets entrepreneurial-minded individuals and offers intensive leadership development, business plan competitions, executive mentoring, financial investment, and startup incubation.

Needs addressed:  Life skills; employment, reentry

Provides assistance for RISE students who wish to complete the program they started in a secure facility. 

Need addressed:  Lifeskills, reentry prosocial activity

Food safety certification course which covers food borne illness, how to prevent it; purchasing and receiving guidelines; food prep, holding and serving guidelines; food safety management, systems and sanitation guidelines.

Needs addressed:  Employment; life skills.

Instruction and learning to fabricate position, align and fit parts of structural metal parts.  

Need addressed:  employement

Teaches general knowledge of welding skills and techniques specific to MIG welding. 

Need addressed: employment

The UNL Couple and Family Resource Center provides psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families.  Some programs have a cost. 

Need addressed:  family/parenting

Teaches welding skills.

Need addressed:  Employment

Assists participants to prepare for returning to work and building career readiness.