The Apprenticeship certificate program in Mental Behavioral Health centers around the specific skills and abilities necessary to provide comprehensive mental behavioral health counseling. Course work includes chemical dependency, abnormal behavior, co-occurring disorders, confidentiality, professional ethics, diversity, managing crises, and client screening, education, and counseling. Upon completion of the certificate students will be equipped for entry level counseling and case management positions in behavioral health programs that treat individuals with persistent mental illness.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ critically examine the psychological, physiological, and sociocultural issues related to substance use, misuse, and abuse.
✔ describe specific mental, emotional, and behavioral difficulties.
✔ analyze existing California Professional Codes of Ethics.
✔ evaluate and apply appropriate approaches in dealing with a variety of problems including but not limited to: mental illness, addiction, housing, unemployment, and relationship distress.
✔ develop and implement culturally responsive prevention, intervention, and/or resolution to identified issues and problems affecting diverse populations.

The certificate program in Chemical Dependency Studies centers around the specific skills and abilities necessary to provide comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling. Course work includes the twelve counselor core function applications in addiction screening: intake, assessment, orientation, counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, client's education, client's rights, confidentiality, professional ethics, and reports and record keeping.
Upon completion of the certificate a student possesses the coursework required for initial certification as a California drug and alcohol counselor (CDAC).

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ evaluate the components of a quality chemical dependency counseling program.
✔ demonstrate the twelve essential counseling skills as they apply to chemical dependency and recovery processes.
✔ utilize counseling strategies based on examination of scientific theories of addiction.
✔ identify the community resources used in assisting clients with addiction issues.
✔ appraise and apply the knowledge of California Professional Codes of Ethics for Drug and Alcohol counselors.
✔ evaluate one's own values and attitudes as they apply to ethical decision making.
✔ demonstrate appropriate interpersonal and social skills in interactions with a diverse population using principles of equity, social justice, and inclusion.

This Certificate provides hands-on learning with an emphasis on supervisory and management skills in the restaurant environment. Management and the front-of-the-house skills are emphasized, with students learning basic culinary skills. The Oak Cafe is a small, fine dining restaurant that provides a management training lab for advanced students in the program.

The continued growth of the hospitality industry has resulted in an increased need for qualified managers, both entry-level and advanced, in all levels of restaurants, hotels, bakeries and other food service and hospitality establishments.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ analyze and design cost effective labor and production schedules.
✔ analyze and compare methods of internal cost control.
✔ assess standards and procedures for delivery concepts into appropriate restaurant service.
✔ construct menus considering food, labor, production costs, and marketing.
✔ evaluate quality principles to the management of a restaurant, including team building and motivation.

This Guided Pathways Milestone Certificate for Multilingual Speakers: Pathway to Culinary Arts offers advanced reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills at a post secondary level for English learners combined with introductory hospitality management skills. The combination of these skills can be used along their pathways to degrees, certificates, or transfer, and for use in multilingual work environments.
This certificate supports course work in the hospitality management profession, including in multilingual work environments.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ write formal academic essays as well as apply techniques of written communication, sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, and spelling.
✔ employ reading strategies, such as summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting and integrating outside sources into writing.
✔ analyze written communication and compose and organize paragraphs into effective documents.
✔ convey intended meaning, including accuracy in sound production, syllabification, and intonation.
✔ formulate and use a variety of interactive strategies effectively such as clarification, polite interruption, and agreement/disagreement strategies.
✔ participate in in-depth discussions effectively, take clear notes, and give oral presentations in a business/work environment.
✔ employ skills required for all entry-level food preparation courses.
✔ demonstrate skills in equipment utilization, weights, measurements, knife cut identification, speed and accuracy, as well as kitchen product identification and utilization.
✔ convey the history of the hospitality and culinary professions, explore the numerous avenues of opportunity, and study the advantages of continuing education in the field.
✔ demonstrate background knowledge of and approaches of successful chefs and restaurateurs.

This certificate focuses on basic and advanced culinary techniques, related to both hot food and baking. It emphasizes supervisory and management skills, marketing, and financial accountability. The Oak Cafe is a small, fine dining restaurant that provides a management training lab for advanced students in the program.

Opportunities for qualified people in the restaurant field are endless. The demand for trained cooks, chefs, and managers in all types of restaurants and food service organizations continues to grow.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ analyze and design cost effective labor and production schedules.
✔ analyze and compare methods of internal cost control.
✔ choose and demonstrate optimal cooking procedures for all categories of foods to include, but not limited to the following: vegetables, fruits, fats and oils, milk products, eggs, legumes, grains, baked products, poultry, meat, seafood, and soups.
✔ assess standards and procedures for delivery concepts into appropriate restaurant service.
✔ construct menus considering food, labor, production costs, and marketing.
✔ evaluate quality principles to the management of the restaurant kitchen, including team building.

This certificate provides hands-on learning focused on job skills with an emphasis on baking and pastry. It includes production baking, candies, wedding and specialty cakes, plated desserts, and artisan breads.
Opportunities for qualified people in the restaurant field are endless. The demand for trained bakers in all types of restaurants and food service organizations continue to grow.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ assess and demonstrate basic mixing methods for yeast doughs, cakes, cookies, and pastries.
✔ analyze and critique professional, commercial bakeshop ingredients and supplies.
✔ analyze quality defects in baked products and specify possible errors in technique or ingredient selection.
✔ prepare and critique a variety of products including biscuits, artisan breads, Danish pastries, muffins, coffee cakes, pies, tarts, puff pastries, cakes, cookies, pastry cream, pate a choux, icings, souffles, ice creams, and meringues.

This certificate provides students with a basic horticulture background and specific experience in sustainable landscape installation and maintenance, including the use of sustainable principles and practices.
Career opportunities include positions with landscape construction and maintenance firms, as well as within the public sector at various levels including cities, counties and state levels.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ recognize basic botanical structure and functions and how plants relate to the environment.
✔ assess and implement hands-on skills of construction operations, such as using wood, pavers, irrigation components, and sustainable soil preparation and grading.
✔ recognize and comply with the state water regulations that affect landscaping.
✔ assess and implement the hands-on skills of sustainable landscape management and their techniques.
✔ utilize irrigation water auditing techniques and select equipment to correctly irrigate, schedule, and conserve water in the landscape.
✔ compare and contrast conventional and sustainable landscape methods.
✔ evaluate existing landscapes to enable maintenance with ecologically sustainable practices.
✔ evaluate sustainable products and methods for use in the landscape.
✔ demonstrate proper pruning of a plant.
✔ demonstrate proper techniques of planting and transplanting.
✔ select a proper plant for a given situation.
✔ recognize and identify 150 plant species and/or varieties utilizing taxonomic plant key techniques.
✔ employ the basic principles of irrigation design.

This certificate provides individuals with a basic horticulture background and specific experience in landscape plant production, marketing and sales, facilities, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) skills, and license or certificates requirements.
Career opportunities exist with plant researchers, wholesale nurseries, and retail nurseries.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ recognize basic botanical structure and functions and how plants relate to the environment
✔ propagate plants, including seed and vegetative techniques
✔ diagnose plant pest signs and symptoms
✔ apply the basic practices involved in commercial nursery operations
✔ identify the different display techniques and advertising practices used in the nursery industry
✔ recognize the basic principles of pest control and the requirements for licensing and/or certification

This certificate provides individuals with a basic horticulture background and a broad experience in landscape design, including landscape Computer-Assisted Design and Drafting (CADD).
Career opportunities exist with design firms and landscape contractors.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ recognize basic botanical structure and functions and how plants relate to the environment.
✔ develop construction drawings using the components included in a set of landscape plans.
✔ assess and apply the use of drafting equipment and techniques as they relate to landscape design and landscape architecture.
✔ assess, evaluate, and utilize supportive design techniques such as plant materials, space management, energy conservation, and elevation change and grading.
✔ demonstrate the various formats for design presentations.
✔ create a new landscape design project using the CADD software program.

This certificate provides individuals with a basic horticulture background and specific experience in landscape installation and plant production. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) skills can be adapted to the needs of each of these horticulture industries.
This certificate helps individuals, new to or already in the field, market themselves to both landscape and plant production horticulture fields.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ diagnose plant pest signs and symptoms.
✔ formulate a pest management plan using the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
✔ recognize basic botanical structure and functions and how plants relate to the environment.
✔ demonstrate the hands-on skills used in plant propagation including seed and vegetative techniques.
✔ assess and implement hands-on skills of construction operations, such as using wood, pavers, irrigation components, and sustainable soil preparation and grading.
✔ identify and comply with the state water regulations that affect landscaping.