Worker Retraining

Teresa McDermott
Director for Co-op/Internship & Worker Retraining
tmcdermott@olympic.edu  360-475-7480

Miste Damrill-Leib
Educational Advisor for Worker Retraining

Student Entry and Advising Center

mdamrill@olympic.edu, 360- 475-7230

937 W Alpine Way, Shelton

rferri@olympic.edu, 360- 432-5423

Worker Retraining provides access to skills training for unemployed workers who need to upgrade their skills or acquire a new career.

Eligibility and Details: Worker Retraining applicants must initially meet one of the following critieria to potentially qualify:

• Determined eligible to collect WA state unemployment insurance;
• Currently collecting WA state unemployment insurance;
• Have collected WA state unemployment insurance at any time within the last 24 months;
• Have received notice of intent to layoff;
• Displaced homemaker;
  (Individuals who within the last 24 months have been providing unpaid services to a family member(s) in the home, and have been dependent on the income of another family member, and are no longer supported by that income)
• Self-employed.

Qualified students may receive assistance with tuition and fees, books, dependent care, and transportation costs in addition to educational advising. This assistance can be applied to any one of more than 20 professional technical programs offered at Olympic College, or to customized job skills training. Worker Retraining students may also be allowed to collect unemployment benefits while attending Olympic College as a full-time student.

Worker Retraining students may enroll in one of twenty Olympic College Professional-Technical ATA degree or certificate program. For details, see link to Professional-Technical programs located on the left side of this page.