Career Pathways

Phlebotomy Technician – 5/1/25
CLOSED (waitlist is full)

Are you yearning to go back to school to help you get a new job, start a new career, or to learn a new skill? Read on to learn more.

As members of the South Bay Adult Education Consortium (SBAEC), South Bay Adult School (SBAS) and El Camino College (ECC) continue to partner together to provide Career Pathways for adult education learners. Career Pathway programs offer cost-free post-secondary education and training, organized into a series of manageable steps with multiple entry and exit points, leading to successively higher credentials and employment opportunities in growing occupations.

Each of our Career Pathways embeds extensive student support resources and learning opportunities, including:
• Free Class Tuition
• Free Class Materials
• Study groups and tutorials
• Workshops and additional certifications (ie: CPR and First Aid, etc.)
• Workforce Development Managers
• Transition Managers

Child Development (CDEV)

The Child Development program prepares students for careers in private or public programs serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children with special needs, or children in before- and after-school care. Students enroll in credit-bearing college classes that qualify them to apply for the Teacher Assistant Permit (one year / two courses) and the Associate Teacher Permit (two years / four courses).

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Emergency Medical Technicians are professional medical responders who have the opportunity to help ill and injured patients in various emergency scenes. EMT principles covered in this pathway include leadership, followership, communication, safety, situational awareness, scene size-up, problem-solving, decision-making, patient assessment, and professionalism. EMT students learn practices and procedures through lectures, skills labs, simulations, role-playing, tactical decision games, and 24 hours of field experience. Each student who successfully completes the 170-hour course will receive an EMT Course Completion Certificate, EMT skills verification, and authorization to test with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT).

Phlebotomy Technician – 5/1/25
CLOSED (waitlist is full)

Phlebotomy Technicians are in demand as one of the fastest-growing occupations in healthcare. Launch your career as a Phlebotomy Technician, collecting blood samples from patients in a hospital, clinical laboratory, medical office, or clinic. Through lectures and hands-on training, you’ll learn about the circulatory system, venipuncture technique and specimen collection, risk factors and complications, and quality assurance. Students will take the national exam and then participate in an externship to fulfill the requirements for certification as a Certified Phlebotomy Technician.