{"id":21348,"date":"2024-01-09T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/cannabis-career-exploration-program-enrolling-now-for-feb-6\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:45:15","slug":"cannabis-career-exploration-program-enrolling-now-for-feb-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/cannabis-career-exploration-program-enrolling-now-for-feb-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Career Exploration program enrolling now for Feb. 6!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Capital District Educational Opportunity Center (CDEOC), located at 431 River St. in Troy, is excited to partner with the Cannabis Workforce Initiative to offer a new career exploration program focused on New York State\u2019s emerging and expansive legal cannabis industry. This program is <strong>free<\/strong> for individuals who qualify!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To see if you or someone you know is eligible for this FREE program, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/programs\/eoc\/enrollment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enrollment webpage<\/a> or call the CDEOC at (518) 273-1900 ext. 2230.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Cannabis Career Exploration program begins on <strong>Tuesday, Feb. 6<\/strong>\u00a0(5:30-8:30 p.m.), and will cover the following topics over five weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1 &#8211; Feb. 6: History of Cannabis Laws\/What the Legalization of Cannabis Means for You\/Industry Overview\/The Cannabis Plant<\/li>\n<li>Week 2 &#8211; Feb. 13: Jobs in Extraction &amp; Manufacturing\/Working in a Dispensary<\/li>\n<li>Week 3 &#8211; Feb. 27: Health &amp; Safety in the Cannabis Industry\/Seed-to-sale Compliance<\/li>\n<li>Week 4 &#8211; Mar. 5: Your Rights at Work\/Protections from Discrimination &amp; Harassment<\/li>\n<li>Week 5 &#8211; Mar. 12: Packaging, Branding &amp; Marketing in Cannabis\/Additional Opportunities in the Cannabis Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>COURSE DETAILS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Five Tuesdays* from 5:30-8:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 6, 2024<br \/>\n*no class on Tuesday, Feb. 20<\/p>\n<p>Location: CDEOC (431 River St., Troy)<\/p>\n<p>To enroll, contact the CDEOC at (518) 273-1900 ext. 2230!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-157862 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/CWI-2024-revised.png\" alt=\"flyer for Cannabis Career Exploration program, the details of which are written in the page text; the flyer includes three images: one of the exterior of a green house, one of the interior of a large green house with fans in the scaffolding, and one shows a caucasian man with a tool belt standing next to a Black man wearing a hard hat as the second man points off to the distance with his right hand, and behind them in the wooden framing of a building in progress\" width=\"772\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:45:15 +0000 by\u00a0m.tice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Capital District Educational Opportunity Center (CDEOC), located at 431 River St. in Troy, is excited to partner with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}