Blue Ridge Community and Technical College offers a full range of training solutions to give your business the competitive edge. Choose from nationally recognized curriculum or let us work with you to design a results-oriented plan of action. Training can be as short as a few hours or span several months or longer, depending upon your budget and your goals. For groups of employees seeking to attain a degree or to build upon credits earned, we can facilitate the entire process, from scheduling accelerated cohorts and enrollment through completion. Classes can be delivered at your place of business, online or at our Martinsburg Campus.

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Exciting New Course Offering:

There's more to a home inspection than just looking around a house. It is a profession that combines construction knowledge with communication skills and business savvy. Our online professional home inspection training course, developed in conjunction with American Home Inspectors Training Institute and approved by the West Virginia State Fire Commission, offers you the best home inspection training program in North America. The eight technical study modules – together with audio and visual tutorials, photos of numerous inspection scenarios, and practice exercises and quizzes - will provide you with a step-by-step process for executing a complete, thorough, professional home inspection and producing a professional home inspection report. The course also includes valuable information on how to successfully start up, market, and build your home inspection business so that you are earning income as quickly as possible. For more information on enrolling in this course, please call 1-800-441-9411 or visit www.ahit.com/affiliates/blueridgectc.

American Home Inspectors Training Institute is the largest provider of home inspection training in North America and has been training professional home inspectors for 14 years. The Institute's extensive experience educating and supporting thousands of home inspectors, coupled with its wide variety of innovative products and services for those involved in the home inspection industry, give students the knowledge and the tools to start their own successful home inspection businesses or to be significant contributors in existing home inspection companies.

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D = Degree; CT = Certificate; CN = Certification

Program	Description	D	CT	CN
AAS Technology Studies	Blue Ridge Community and Technical College can customize this Associate of Applied Science degree for employers.  Certificate programs requiring 32 credits for completion are also available.	X
Culinary Program	The Culinary Arts Program is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills neccessary to ensure successful employment in the industry.  It is encompassing in scope and covers a wide variety of skill and knowledge topics.  The topics span the full spectrum of requirements and functions of and within the industry.  The student acquires a comprehensive yet basic culinary education, which can be successfully applied to all levels of the food service industry.  Additionally, emphasis is focused upon student development and maintenance of necessary positive attitudes and work habits leading to maximum performance effectiveness upon graduation.  This program is listed in Peterson's Culinary Schools. The Culinary Arts Program is a cooperative effort of the Blue Ridge CTC and James Rumsey Technical Institute located near Martinsburg, WV.  Students must apply for admission to both Blue Ridge CTC and James Rumsey Technical Institute.	X
Industrial Maintenance Program	The Industrial Maintenance Certificate combines general education and maintenance technology courses for the purpose of serving students studying industrial maintenance. This certificate assures employers that the student has the knowledge of technical math, communication and computer skills necessary to enter the Industrial Maintenance field.		X
Occupational Development Program	There is a growing need in the United States for childcare and elder care in private homes and at centers.  Some employers are making a collaborative effort to provide dependent care for their employees by establishing centers or expanding existing ones. The demand for a dependent care career should increase in the future as the baby boom generation ages and assumes the responsibility of providing care for their elderly parents and as more young mothers pursue employment outside the home.  Job opportunities for this degree include employment in retirement communities, adult day care centers, senior centers, adult congregate living facilities, employer and community childcare facilities, and in individual homes.	X
Printing Certificate	Blue Ridge Community and Technical College (Blue Ridge CTC) and The Community and Technical College at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (CTC Tech) formed an Access Through Partnership agreement to offer courses for the Printing Technology degree.		X