Occupational Skills

Real-world skills for real-world opportunities

Gaining independence is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. For many, leaving home or stepping into adulthood means navigating new challenges—managing money, cooking meals, and making decisions that shape the future. Every task becomes an opportunity to learn and grow, building the skills needed for success.

Our Occupational Skills Program empowers individuals with disabilities to achieve their career goals through a unique blend of work-based training and classroom instruction. Our program will teach communication, critical reasoning and employability. The program also helps students gain experience in supervised pre-internship settings, all designed to prepare them for a successful transition into competitive entry-level employment or continuing college level education.

Location: Brainerd Campus

Fast Facts

This program teaches independent living skills like work communications, cooking, laundry or housekeeping.

The Occupational Skills program is a great transfer program to ease the transition between living at home with family and living on your own.

Occupational Skills Diploma (pdf)
instructor with student

Earn a diploma while learning the skills to transition to life and employment!

Median Annual Salary

$29,720 ($14.28hr)*
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US Annual Job Openings 565,600

Currently Employed
3,338,800

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“It’s really awesome to work with students who thought maybe they couldn’t go to college. We get to be there when they realize they have what it takes.”
patty sloan
Patricia Sloan
Instructor and program director
“This program really challenges you. They push you to grow and make changes.”
Aaron
Student
“My favorite part is getting all of my stuff ready to apply for jobs... Resume, cover letter, letter of recommendation. They think of everything.”
Colton
Student

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Central Lakes College promises to provide you with an extraordinary education
that is affordable, accessible and enhances quality of your life.

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Program Instructors

*Source: CareerOneStop – US Dept. of Labor

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