WRCNM offers career guidance including:

• Career exploration
• Resume development
• Employability skills training
• Professional interview and work clothing vouchers
• Community connections

WRCNM can provide assistance with educational expenses including:

• Tuition costs
• Text books and supplies
• Childcare costs
• Scholarship exploration

WRCNM can provide supportive services including:

• Academic advising
• Tutoring
• Advocacy and referrals
• Disability related services and equipment
• Veteran services
• College application assistance

Any individual interested in pursuing an occupational certificate or degree program at North Central Michigan College and can check one or more of the following:

• Single parent, including single pregnant woman.
• Under-employed or unemployed, is experiencing difficulty in obtaining employment.
• Non-traditional training, student or employment participant. Non-traditional male occupations, for example, are nursing or surgical technologist while for women it could be business management or computer information systems.
• Individual with limited English proficiency – an adult who has limited ability in speaking or understanding the English language.
• Economically disadvantaged – an individual who needs special assistance for educational success and who is receiving federal financial aid.
• Individual with a disability.

The Joint Endeavor for Women in Education and Leadership program (JEWEL) will promote education as a resource for empowerment and leadership by providing improved access to resources that address barriers disproportionately faced by women. The program focuses on academic success, leadership development and access to resources.

The JEWEL program is made possible through a generous gift from Julie Fasone Holder and John Holder to establish the mentorship and scholarship program for North Central Michigan College students.

For more information, contact WRCNM Educational And Employment Services Coordinator Stacey Burns at (231) 348-6699 or by email.

Sponsored by Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan, WISP believes education opens the doors of opportunity and provides the means to economic self-sufficiency. Their mission is to enhance efforts to end domestic violence by offering scholarships to survivors of intimate partner abuse.

Working Wardrobe is a program designed to provide professional clothing for individuals to interview confidently and begin working to achieve economic independence. Services include vouchers for professional work clothing and interview-appropriate clothing.