The Youth and Family Services Certificate Program is designed to help social workers, counselors, mental health practitioners, childcare technicians, foster care providers, nurses and the clergy in their work with youth and families. The Northern District Cooperative Extension staff are currently working to expand this certificate program to other sites in Northwest Wisconsin. The Education and Credit Outreach program offers a variety of credit courses, conferences and workshops to meet the ongoing professional needs of educators and other adult learners committed to lifelong learning. We work collaboratively with school districts and other organizations to identify needs and then design the appropriate format for the learning to occur. Distance learning technology such as compressed video may be used by organizations to conduct meetings.
Participants can interactively communicate with other sites in real time and reduce travel expenses.
The World Wide Web and rapid advances in information technology have increased our capacity to offer interactive courses over the Internet. These courses are taught in an asynchronous format, allowing us greater flexibility to connect people to learning. The net effect of these programs is to enhance both the numbers and diversity of the international student population to the benefit of both the community and the University. Customized training is offered to meet specific needs of organizations. Certificates, Continuing Education Units, and even college credit for properly developed courses with sufficient academic rigor are awarded.