FLIP

Financial and Functional Literacy Incentive Program

Training includes the following skills and services:

• Financial Literacy
• English as a Second Language
• Job Placement Assistance
• Employability Skills

This is a collaboration with Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce offering job enhancement skills for currently employed participants.
Additionally, the Outreach Programs of Rhode Island College offers an introduction and opportunity to enroll in any of the major training programs offered.

The goals of this program include:

• The demonstrated ability to effectively communicate in English both orally and in writing.
• Improvement in Mathematics demonstrated by creating a household budget, opening a checking and savings account.
• Completing all the requirements of the FDIC financial literacy curriculum.
• Vocational job training whenever appropriate.
• Job placement.

Project FLIP is a collaborative effort between the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and Rhode Island College Outreach Programs. It is a comprehensive 50 week program that will include 24 weeks of functional literacy and financial literacy classes focusing on acquiring the necessary level of English language reading, speaking and writing skills as well as receiving a foundation of knowledge that will enable students to build a lifelong financial strategy to ensure economic independence.

Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce works with small businesses that have identified the need for qualified and well trained employees in the towns of Burrillville, Cumberland, Central Falls, Lincoln, North Smithfield Smithfield, Woonsocket, Pawtucket, and Glocester. FLIP participants must be a resident of one of these towns.

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Rhode Island College
Office of Outreach Programs

600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
East Campus-Bldg. 8
Providence, RI 02908

Jenifer Giroux, Interim Director
Dawne Pezzuco, Assistant Director

For Information Contact:
Vidal DeLaCruz Counselor/Recruitment (Spanish)

Phone: (401) 456-8698
Fax: (401) 456-8582

Page updated: Thursday, April 16, 2009

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