White Plains Education and Training Center
The White Plains Education and Training Center is a workforce training hub committed to developing the talents who will fill the in-demand jobs in IT and other fields. The Center provides short-term training and education, leading to industry certifications to align the skills of the worker with the needs of the workplace. WPETC will also serve as a laboratory for testing innovations in IT, Cybersecurity, and other products.
The center is centrally located in the city of White Plains, with easy access from most major highways and public transportation.
For more information about the programs offered at the White Plains Education and Training Center call 914-606-7550 or email wpetc@sunywcc.edu
WDCE Covid Information for Non-Credit Courses
To attend in-person classes, students must provide proof of a completed compliance with the COVID-19 vaccination requirement or have received an approved exemption BEFORE the start of class.
Spring Courses Coming Soon!
Entry-level IT Help Desk Technician Program
The Entry-level IT Help Desk Technician course will prepare you to earn the CompTIA A+ certification. The course provides hands-on instruction, covering the skills required to assemble, refurbish, upgrade, configure and troubleshoot personal computers. The skills you will gain will give you a clear understanding of network, hardware, security, software, server, virtualization, management, as well as troubleshooting mobile devices. Additionally, you will benefit from attending a Career Development session once per week to refine your job search skills so that you are successful finding employment in the IT field.
What you will learn from the Career Development:
The coach will prepare you with career readiness tools and resources to seek, obtain, and retain successful employment in the Information Technology Field.
Price: $2,500 (Funding may be available for this course)
Course Type: Hybrid (Remote and in-person)
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills
How to qualify: Go to the following link to fill out an application to see if you qualify. https://www.sunywcc.edu/locations/technician-application
For more information about this program email wpetc@sunywcc.edu or call 914-606-7550.
Spring courses will be posted shortly!
Latino Women in Business Leadership Group
The goal of the Latino Women in Business Leadership Group is to help Hispanic/Latino women business owners identify and achieve their business and professional goals. through peer-to-peer interaction, the group provides a safe place where you can discuss barriers that are unique to you. The White Plains Education and Training Center has created this unique program, tailored to the needs of women business owners to provide support, advice, guidance, information and access to resources to help you develop your professional and leadership skills.
For more information about this program email wpetc@sunywcc.edu or call 914-606-7550.
Avoid Job Burnout with Work-Life Harmony Techniques
Do you feel exhausted, frustrated, and feeling unaccomplished with your work-life objectives? Do you wake up feeling cynical and unmotivated to start the day? Have you turned to food, or other habits that don't serve you to cope with how you feel?
If this sounds close to home, it is possible that a fog of burnout may surround you. Come learn the process to offset job burnout with a daily routine that leads to work-life harmony. Reclaim your ability to be motivated and energized while doing your job while maintaining harmony in your work-life schedule.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what burnout is and why it occurs
- Identify the signs and symptoms of burnout
- Know and apply the process to prevent or decrease job burnout
- Implement strategies for job burnout and recovery
Date: 9/21/21 6:00-8:00pm
Course #: CE-PRSDV -84103 2199WP
Stress Reduction Techniques for Work-Life Harmony
In the COVID world where the professional and personal demands of our lives collide and compete more than ever, we long for more harmony and less stress. Perfect balance will never exist and chasing after it only contributes to the frustration and dissatisfaction we sometimes feel. Instead, it’s the small, conscious choices we can make each day that lead to less stress and more success.
Before you can begin to strive for more harmony, identify and prioritize what’s most important to you, such as your career, family, home, relationships, finances, health, spirituality, personal development and fun. Come learn how to generate more structure for work-life harmony to reduce stress. Learn the process to achieve more in your life and business with less stress.
Learning Objectives to Implement:
- More clarity to be decisive and take consistent action
- Better energy to sustain performance with work-life harmony
- Better focus to stick to goals and develop healthier success habits long term
- Better sense of self and alignment with core values to connect at deeper level with others in terms of communication
Date: 6/23/21
6:00-8:00pm Course #: CE-PRSDV- 8328 2198WP
Accelerate Your Mental Toughness
Mental toughness is the ability to stick to something when the going gets tough. People with high levels of mental toughness can push beyond obstacles in their lives and forge a path towards work-life harmony. Resolving the root cause to limiting beliefs is necessary to create a foundation to build and sustain mental toughness that leads to better work-life harmony. The solution is implemented from healthier core habits and disciplines from this foundation of higher level of confidence. It’s then using the eight pillars of wellness to sustain your progress with work-life harmony over time.
- Learn how to embrace pressure by learning to be present and controlling what they can while letting go of the rest beyond your control.
- Learn to apply the two habits that will change the quality of their well-being long-term.
- Learn how to use the 8 pillars of wellness to align work-life harmony in their lives.
Date: 10/05/21, 6:00-8:00pm
Course #: CE-PRSDV - 84104 2200WP
For registration for one or all three-session, call 914-606-6830, press 1.
ELI-ESL 2029WL-VA, 25 M/T/W/Th, October 26-December 15, 9:00 am-12:00 pm, In-person. Cost: $22
- Online Placement Test: 10/26, 9:00 am
- First class: 11/3
ELI-ESL 2029WL-VP, 25 M/T/W/Th, October 27-December 15, 6:30-9:30 pm, In-person. Cost: $22
- Online Placement Test: 10/27, 6:30 pm
- First class: 11/3
Textbooks are required and cost approximately $40. Students must register and pay for the course by phone before the placement exam. Please contact Amy Tobin, ESL Program Specialist with the English Language Institute, by calling 914-606-6607 or through email at libraryesl@sunywcc.edu
English Language Institute
Learn more about English Language Institute programs here.You may qualify for funding for many of the White Plains Education and Training Center programs through the following grant opportunities.
At Westchester Community College we want to help remove financial obstacles to advancing your career. We offer financial support for qualified students to cover scholarships for certification programs and individual courses, as well as financial assistance with expenses directly related to training such as books, course materials and certification exam fees.Take advantage of our available scholarships and financial assistance to get the certification or training that will help you get your next job opportunity!
Workforce Scholarships
Displaced Homemakers/Project Transition
Displaced Homemakers/Project Transition
This intensive program provides qualified students the opportunity to learn current, marketable skills to return to the workforce. There is no cost to eligible participants (single parents, widowed, divorced, separated, or married with disabled or unemployed spouse). All applicants must be unemployed or underemployed and must provide proof of Displaced Homemaker status according to the New York State Department of Labor guidelines. You must qualify to attend this program. To find out if you are eligible, email ProjectTransition@sunywcc.edu.Learn More
Gerstner Next Step Grant Program- Workforce Training and Professional Development
The Gerstner Family Foundation - Next Step Grant Program
The Gerstner Family Foundation Next Step Grant Program helps fund short-term workforce training and certification courses or programs, for individuals who need new or additional skills to enter or advance in their careers as quickly as possible. These scholarships help cover the expenses associated with these offerings such as tuition, certain fees, books, course materials, certification testing/credential attainment costs, among others.Learn More
Metallica and WCC Rock the Workforce! Advanced Manufacturing
Metallica and WCC Rock the Workforce!
The Metallica Scholars is a workforce education initiative that provides direct support to community colleges, to enhance their career and technical education programs. These programs provide training and services to students who are looking to enter a traditional trade or other applied learning program. The Metallica Scholars Initiative at Westchester Community College awards scholarships to help students achieve certifications in the Advanced Manufacturing field.Learn More
Pathways for Adult Learners (PALS)
Pathways for Adult Learners (PALS)
We get it. You have busy lives and hold multiple roles. That’s why we created the Pathways for Adult Learners (PALS) program, to help make your educational journey more clear, convenient, and cost-effective. We know you play many life-enriching roles such as parent, worker, spouse, partner, mentor, caregiver, and community member. Isn’t it time now to take these experiences to the next level, leading to career advancement, increased earnings, networking opportunities, and/or personal achievement? Our faculty, staff, and counselors are prepared to help ease your transition back into the classroom. We are committed to providing you with a clear academic plan to further your education and to achieve your academic, career, and personal aspirations.Learn More
Pepsico Foundation Uplift Scholarship: IT Training for Black & Hispanic Students
PepsiCo Foundation Uplift Scholarship
These scholarships support Black and Hispanic students pursuing a degree or short-term workforce training in IT fields. PepsiCo Foundation has selected Westchester Community College as only one of three community colleges in the U.S. to offer an exciting scholarship opportunity for WCC students of color.Learn More
Westchester-Putnam Career Center Network (instead of Westchester Putnam One-stop)
Westchester Putnam One-Stop
The Westchester-Putnam Career Center Network (the “Network”) is comprised of four Career Centers in White Plains, Carmel, Mount Vernon, and Peekskill staffed primarily by Westchester County, Putnam County, and New York State Department of Labor employees. The Network also includes Career Center Partners who work in cooperation with Career Center staff and each other to provide expanded services. These Career Center Partners play a critical role in helping the Network meet the needs of job seekers, youth, and employers and therefore, achieving the requirements under WIOA and the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Development Board’s Strategic and Local Plans.The Career Center Partners are primary deliverers of service to Network customers, in many cases, co-locating in the Career Centers.
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Other Sources of Funding
Other Sources of Funding
We accept 529 and Sallie Mae funding for select workforce training programs. Please refer to the websites below and consult your tax advisor for further information. An Introduction to 529 Plans: NY 529 Info Kiplinger Article: Paying for Continuing Ed with a 529 plan Sallie Mae: Sallie Mae Student LoanWorkforce Scholarship Submission
The White Plains Education and Training Center receives funding through generous grants from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, All Within My Hands Foundation, and the Westchester Community Foundation.
Contact Information:
Eridania Camacho
wpetc@sunywcc.edu
303 Quarropas St, White Plains, NY 10601
914-606-7550