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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Financing Your Education

Tony Garcia, Community Coach for WSU’s Horizons Program presented a workshop titled “Alternative Financing for Your Education” at the DSHS/Worksourse Annual Columbia Basin Job Fair, information on Displaced Worker funds, Tuition Assistance for Working Parents,
Scholarship opportunities, student employment, Workforce Training Program, Job Corps, Veteran’s assistance, and all the other possibilities. Other partners that served as a panel included:

  • WIA funding (Skillsource)
  • Opportunity Grant sources (Worksource Center, BBCC),
  • Work-based Learning Tuition Assistance Program & Financial Aid (Big Bend Community College)