Destination: Success! Program
Certified Nursing Assistant Training

Destination:  Success! provides employability skills training, job placement, retention support and family stabilization services to out of school youth and adults.  

The U.S. Department of Labor has recognized the Destination: Success! Program for its highly commended Employability Skills Training Program for Certified Nursing Assistants, because of the program’s quality of services to high-risk participants and a 75 percent employment retention rate since 2001. The program has also been commended by the Ser-Metro Youth Opportunity Movement program and The City of Detroit Department of Human Services.

Program Overview:  Certified Nursing Assistant training (Six weeks)

Life Skills (Two weeks)
To better prepare the participants on how to interact with their peers and instructors before they enter into the Nursing Assistant program.

Nursing Assistant Training (Three weeks)
For the past seven years, the program has been in partnership with the American Red Cross, providing services to participants in Certified Nursing Assistant Training. The program has been successful and highly regarded by employers in both hospital and nursing home programs in the tri-county area.

Employability skills (One week)
Services provided are:

1. Conflict resolution in the workplace.
   
2. Case management services focusing on making positive life choices.
   
3. Employee commitment, responsibility and accountability.
   
4. Goal setting.
   
5. Budgeting.
   
6. Stress management techniques.
   

Family Stabilization is Key to Employment Success:
The program model is unique in that it is designed to assure the comprehensive success of the participant by dually focusing on family issues and stabilization as well as employability skills training.  By addressing the comprehensive needs of the participants, there is greater assurance that they will complete the training and also become valued employees.

Recognizing that family instability and interpersonal relations are major causes of workforce related problems, an in-depth individual and family assessment is developed for the purpose of determining what resources are needed. Then, necessary resources are provided to assist the participant and their family members.  This approach has been well received and appreciated by the participants and their families, as many of the barriers that were creating problems were able to be resolved.  For many families, these services have had an empowering and uplifting effect.  For example, family members have entered into employment training programs, successfully addressed domestic violence issues, received critically needed health services, successfully addressed domestic violence issues and received critically needed health services.