College Experience

Benefits of the College Experience:

• Youth will be studying with their own peer group
• Youth have the opportunity to participate in a weekly workshop where they discuss issues that they are facing in school.
  
• Camden County College has an established program of developmental courses that allow a youth to strengthen their abilities in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Youth have the added benefit of academic support from Hopeworks while enrolled in school.
  
• Youth can earn their high school diploma while they earn their Associates

degree. Trainees are able to earn their high school diploma if they choose to take the HSPA test. 

• Youth have to take and perform at a proficient or advanced proficient level of achievement in all sections of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) test in order to qualify to recieve their diploma.
  
• Youth must complete 30 general education credits.  15 of these credits must be in the following five areas:

• Communications
• Mathematics
• Sciences
• Social Science
• Humanities
  

• Trainees will earn an Associates degree.