community colleges in eight states—Arizona, California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington—that are piloting, marketing or expanding courses to retrain boomers for jobs in education, health care, social services and, new this year, green jobs. Grantees include:

•Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA). CCAC will train dislocated professionals as certified Medical Office Managers, an occupation expected to grow nationally by 16 percent through 2016. Students will move into the growing regional health care field working in physicians' offices, medical clinics, medical practices, and hospital health care facilities.

•Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane, WA). This college will develop a program to help older adults make smooth transitions to green jobs, through a course that helps participants explore the nature of green jobs, learn how to become employed, or enroll in additional certification training.

•Grand Rapids Community College (Grand Rapids, MI). This college will build on past success to expand local employer connections through a new employer training program, and will launch a course that increases the employability of students for encore careers in health care.

•LaGuardia Community College (New York, NY). Older immigrants who have worked professionally in the social services and health care fields in their native countries will be recruited for training leading to employment as community health workers, providing people in underserved NYC communities with needed health information and services from experienced, bilingual workers.

•Ohlone College (Newark, CA). Seasoned electricians, general contractors, and tradespeople receive training as mentors and team leaders for economically disadvantaged youths entering the green-collar workforce. Some "Green Encore Fellows" receive intensive solar energy training to design and install green energy systems and be placed with employers who have an urgent need for skilled supervisors and trainers.

•Rio Salado College (Tempe, AZ). This college will increase the number of 50+ adults enrolled in teacher certification programs through marketing and recruitment efforts with AARP and local partners.

•Southeastern Community College (Whiteville, NC). The college's Green Pathways Project will reach out to older low-income and dislocated workers whose traditional income sources have disappeared and provide them the skills necessary to apply for emerging green encore careers linked to the county's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds.

•Union County College (Cranford, NJ). Support systems are now strained for hard-to-employ individuals including an increasing pool of ex-offenders in need of jobs. Union County's Workforce Specialist Academy will prepare older professionals and volunteers as adult educators to fill the gaps in adult basic education, workforce development, and prisoner re-entry services.

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