Read about El Centro programs - IT, Nursing Assistant, and Home Health Aide trainings
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For about 60 years, El Centro has been offering support services, adult education, and workforce development trainings to low-income immigrants in the Boston area.
In the workforce development arena, they offer some exciting opportunites both in IT and health:
IT/Cybersecurity Training: El Centro, in partnership with Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, offers a comprehensive 2-semester, 15-credit IT/Cybersecurity program. The program is hybrid, divided between online and in-person classes, and runs from September to June. Applicants must have advanced English and a Work Authorization to apply. For information: 617-464-8023 or elcentroit@ccab.org. You can also fill out an Interest Form and someone will reach out to you.
Bridges to Cybersecurity: The Bridges program is also a 2-semester program. The first semester includes classes that can be oriented towards a variety of IT pathways.
>> The second semester (which, in 2026, started on February 9) includes classes that are mandatory prerequisites for the above IT/Cybersecurity training at Benjamin Franklin Cummings. The classes are: Computer Networks, which must be taken in-person; Introduction to Cybersecurity, which you take online; and Introduction to IT Google Certification, also taken online. For more information, contact El Centro: 617-464-8023, elcentroit@ccab.org. You can also fill out an Interest Form.
Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide training programs in South Boston and Brocton. Upcoming dates TBD. For further details please click HERE.
>> Check out a couple of interesting blogs related to the IT program:
From Student Eriamy Rodriguez Soto
From Meghan Martinez, CyberTrust Massachusetts
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