Durham Reporter

Officials at Durham Technical Community College started its new "Back-to-Work Initiative" that offers short-term online virtual learning to teach residents skills to get hired by companies in growing industries. 

The Back-to-Work program started as a result of job cuts because of the economic impacts COVID-19 created in North Carolina and across the nation. 

“Durham Tech’s Back-to-Work Initiative is an opportunity to provide individuals with skills that prepare them to enhance current or explore new and exciting careers,” Micara Lewis-Sessoms, a leader of the initiative, said, the website spectacularmag.com reported on July 17. “The evolving workforce in our new normal makes it even more essential for the College to respond to our communities’ needs by providing short-term training leading to life-long skills.”

Courses will focus on acquiring high-paying, more desirable jobs in sectors including health, biotechnology, skilled trade jobs and digital information, spectacularmag.com reported. The courses are remote and will begin in late July and August. A high school diploma or GED could be a requirement for some courses and the program and funding options to take part are open to residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.