Mi Casa Resource Center

Career pathways career pathways trains, supports, and connects low-income job seekers to high-demand careers that meet their personal and professional needs. With mi casas support, participants gain the education and skills needed to generate income and move up career ladders. The framework of career pathways includes knowledge and skill building, industry-specific collaboration, educational attainment, confidence and sustainable success, systemic equity, and digital access and technology. Career pathways offers a holistic approach that addresses the person and professional needs of low-income community members. With multiple entry points that include navigation, coaching, training, and postsecondary placement, mi casa creates pathways to career placement and advancement. Mi casas navigation services use a strength-based approach that identifies attitudes, capacity, levels of self-determination, and community resources. Mi casas strength-based career coaching offers one-on-one support throughout the job search and employment process. Career pathways offers three long-term trainings. Banking essentials training prepares participants for high-demand employment in the banking and financial sector. Medical office administration training combines soft skills, technical skills, employer engagement, and credential attainment in partnership with arapahoe community college (acc). Human resources (hr) training teaches core skills for a career in hr and administrative positions and participants can earn college credit at metropolitan state university denver (msu denver). Mi casa has memorandums of understanding with acc and msu denver to implement stackable credential models leading to industry-recognized certificates that can lead into associate and bachelors degrees. Participants who graduate from mi casas career trainings can take prior learning assessments and earn college credits that apply to certificates at each of the colleges. Mi casa also offers google professional certificates with six options: it support, it automation with python certificate, data analytics, project management, ux design, and digital marketing & e-commerce.