College and magazine keep the Treasure Coast business community up-to-date

Since March, COVID-19 has caused serious disruption for Treasure Coast small businesses and the regional workforce. Even with all Treasure Coast businesses now open and operating, including hospitality, the reality of a changed and challenging marketplace still exists.

The primary purpose of Treasure Coast Business Magazine is to provide the region with a go-to publication for all things business across the Treasure Coast. Beginning with the spring issue, the magazine dedicated substantial pages of content that provided small businesses with COVID-19 operational tips on topics including operations, marketing, cash management, recovery and resiliency.

That same issue dedicated an entire section to the Paycheck Protection Program, Economic Injury Disaster Loans and 7(a) loan and repayment information. The magazine’s mission is clear — ensure the region’s business owners and workforce have access to current and relevant business information.

In keeping with this mission, we want to highlight and remind the business community of the Treasure Coast’s most accessible, valuable and powerful workforce and business recovery resource — Indian River State College.

Now is the time to examine all that Indian River State College can provide and offer students, professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners. Get beyond surviving and start thriving. Take advantage of what is affordable and convenient access to valuable and high-quality educational, professional development, and business assistance resources and programs at your Indian River State College.

For more than 60 years, Indian River State College has been providing high quality education, workforce training, professional development and employee enhancement programs to individuals, corporations, small businesses and government agencies. If you are a professional or a business owner seeking to reengage in the marketplace, the college has the tools, resources and programs to help meet personal, professional and business goals.

The most visible of these business assistance tools are the Florida Small Business Development Center and the Corporate & Community Training Institute at IRSC.

The Florida SBDC at IRSC is the source for assistance and expertise to help businesses survive, grow and succeed. The Florida SBDC at IRSC and its expanded team of consultants can help a business develop a plan to move beyond COVID-19.

The CCTI has educational and training services to meet community and business needs by providing high quality employee training and enhancement programs to individuals, corporations, small businesses and government agencies. CCTI specializes in customized training at a time, date and location that is convenient for the business.

Indian River State College has also created innovative programs to support the region’s workforce. Among the newest programs is Rapid Credentialing for displaced workers, made possible through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Rapid Credentialing grant by the Florida Department of Education.

Rapid Credentialing offers eligible students quick, tuition-free certificate and career-training opportunities in areas that include electric power plant technology, accounting, entrepreneurship, business, health science, automotive, HVAC, landscape and horticulture, firefighting, corrections and private security officer. Several programs include courses that are credit-bearing and may apply toward corresponding Associate in Science degrees.

The IRSC Virtual Campus provides the region’s workforce with online access to education. Offering 15 online degree programs, hundreds of programs and a variety of technical certificates, Virtual Campus provides the career training and competitive advantage needed for advancement in today’s workforce. Virtual Campus students experience well-designed courses taught by faculty members who are experts in their fields. Students have a team behind them who want to see them succeed. With options on course length and start date, students can pursue academic goals remotely, in a way that works for them.

To learn more about these programs and all Indian River State College has to offer, please visit www.IRSC.edu. To contact the Florida SBDC and the CCTI, send an email to FSBDC@IRSC.edu or call 772.336.6285.

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Treasure Coast Business is a news service and magazine published in print, via e-newsletter and online at tcbusiness.com by Indian River Magazine Inc. For more information or to report news email staff@tcbusiness.com