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Note: Each Michigan Works! Service Center varies in how funds are approved
for training. Be sure to check the Michigan Works! website for your local Service
Center to learn if they have defined steps for you to follow. You can locate your
Service Center at the link below:
Zip Code locater for Michigan Works! Service Centers:
http://michiganworks.org/
General steps to work with Michigan Works!:
- Schedule an appointment to attend
an Orientation at your local Michigan Works! Service Center.
Zip Code locater for
Michigan Works! Service Centers
- Review the occupations in your geographic region
that qualify as in demand or high demand occupations. Funds through Michigan Works!
require that training be applicable to region needs. Refer to the link below to
view high demand jobs by county:
High demand jobs by county
- Identify an occupation
or occupations defined as high demand for which you are interested in obtaining
training.
- Select an approved degree program from the Michigan Consumer Education
Career Report (MI CECR – www.mycareereducation.org )
- Scroll down the list of providers
in the CECR until you get to Central Michigan University. You will see that listings
include a number of CMU off campus locations (e.g. Central Michigan University –
Auburn Hills; Central Michigan University - Troy). Select a CMU Center location within
your Michigan Works! Service Center.
Note that CMU certificate training programs
are completely online even though you search for programs by CMU off campus locations.
- After you select a program offered by CMU take the information to your Michigan
Works! Case Manager to assist in completing forms to advance your application
for training funds.
General steps to work with Central
Michigan University:
- Forms you receive from your Michigan Works! case manager
that are to be completed by the Training Institution may be taken in or faxed to
your Central Michigan University home center for completion. Before bringing in
or faxing forms to your CMU home center, complete as much as possible yourself the
Customer or Sponsored Student sections of the form, including the name of the program
in which you wish to enroll. Be sure to include a phone/fax number for you and your
case manager.
- Completed forms may also be faxed to CMU in Clinton Township to
the attention of: Elaine Kas or Lori Swift at (586) 263-6485. You may also scan
and email your forms to clinton.township@cmich.edu
- CMU will complete the Training
Provider sections of the forms and contact you when the forms are completed so you
can return them to your Michigan Works! case manager.
- After you receive notification
from your Michigan Works! case manager that you have been approved for funding please
contact CMU to follow-up with the Program Administrator at your home center.
- You
will have two (2) years for NWLB/ITA and three (3) years for TAA (Trade) to complete
the program, starting from the day you begin taking classes.
- At the present time,
Elaine Kas (Program Administrator) and Lori Swift (Administrative Aide) located
in Clinton Township, are the coordinators for the program should further assistance
be required.