AACA Results

Workforce Development Center
 
ASCENT (Accounting Skills, Computer and English Training)
Job Placement Rate: 88% Average placement wage: $13.23/hr
 
Facilities Maintenance Training Program
Job Placement Rate: 82% Average placement wage: $14.34/hr
 
Partnership for Automotive Career Education
Job Placement Rate: 70% Average placement wage: $10.44/hr

Education Center

  • 21 graduates of the ABE Program entered college
  • 3 graduates of the ABE Program entered AACA's ASCENT (office skills) training program
  • 4 graduates of the ABE Program entered AACA's Facilities Maintenance training program
  • 3 former ABE Program students graduated from Bunker Hill Community College
  • 1 former ABE Program students graduated from UMass Boston
  • 4 ABE Program graduates were awarded $1000 college scholarships by First Literacy (formerly known as the Boston Adult Literacy Fund)
  • 77% of students in AACA's ESOL program continued to study at higher levels
  • 11 graduates of the Boston Adult Self-Sufficiency Project (BASS) entered employment
  • 49 students were served in AACA's first Internet ESOL Distance Learning Program
  • We have build a new web site called "Communicating at Work," which will help immigrant workers improve their communication skills with supervisors, co-workers and customers. Click to view: http://www.aaca-boston.org/caw .

Multi-Service Center

  • Provided 10,613 services to clients in 2007.

Sampan Newspaper

  • Circulation: 10,000. Readers: 40,000

  • 31,500 average hits per week on the Sampan webpage during 2007.

  • Distributed in Boston, Quincy, Malden, Cambridge, Newton, Allston, Brookline

  • Only English-Chinese bilingual newspaper in New England. Publishing since 1972.

 


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