Training and PREP
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Preparing the Workforce
At Veterans Molding Minds, we recognize that one of the greatest barriers facing youth, transitioning Veterans, and individuals reentering society is not a lack of potential but a lack of documented skills, experience, and access to opportunity. Even entry-level positions often require prior training or work history, leaving many capable individuals overlooked.
We bridge that gap by combining workforce development with real-world staffing opportunities. Through our partnership with Concord Pathways Institute, we provide hands-on training, certifications, and employment readiness programs that prepare individuals to succeed from day one. Participants don’t just learn they gain practical experience and are positioned for temporary, transitional, and long-term employment placements.
Our approach ensures that individuals are equipped with both technical skills and life skills, making them reliable, adaptable, and purpose-driven contributors in the workplace. At the same time, we support employers by supplying trained, workforce-ready talent who can meet immediate staffing needs while growing into long-term assets.
By aligning preparation with placement, we create a pathway that promotes stability, reduces barriers to employment, helps prevent homelessness, and strengthens the overall workforce.
At VMM, we’re not just preparing people for jobs we’re preparing them for purpose, performance, and long-term success.
Training and PREP Opportunities at Veterans Molding Minds
- Auto Technician training
- Traffic Control Specialist
- Dental Assistant training
- Mental Health Advocate training
- Concord Navigator training
- Security officer training
- Culinary Arts Program
- STE(A)M for Entrepreneurs
- Employment 101
- Artistic development
- Personal Readiness Employment Programming (PREP)
AUTO TECHNICIAN
Out of a dynamic partnership with NAPA and Genuine Parts, the NAPA Auto Center provides training for men and women in 10 key areas of auto mechanics. When students complete the program, they graduate with a light repair certification and more control over their future.
SECURITY GUARD
Our Security officer training is designed to get you certified as an armed or unarmed security officer. You will earn certifications in CPR, baton handling, and handcuffing. This is a great way to start your Security officer career! Previous military experience is an added bonus and resume booster, but not required.
CULINARY ARTS
The 180° Culinary Arts Program is an intensive10-week training program where students learn practical knowledge of the culinary arts and food preparation. You’ll earn a ServSafe Certification, which will make you eligible for employment in the food and beverage industry in a variety of settings.
MONEY GUIDE FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
Instead of training to work for an established industry, if you’ve got your sites set on starting your own business, take advantage of the revolution of STEM Education-Financial Literacy-Blockchain Technology-Entertainment-Entrepreneurship training to gain the valuable tools you need to be successful
EMPLOYMENT 101
In our Employment 101 course, learn all the soft skills needed to have amazing results at your next job interview and how to showcase the ones you already possess. Get the job you deserve with the skills employers are looking for!
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Our artistic development training will develop and hone basic and advanced skills in acting, singing, songwriting, playwriting, dancing, and more....Enjoy being a part of our Community on Demand network and discover a meaningful career in your talent.
Personal Readiness Employment Programming (P.R.E.P.)
PREREQUISITE TO ANY TRAINING
Our population of Opportunity Youth, homeless citizens, Veterans, and returning citizens has an understanding that there are many job opportunities available for them. While this may be true, the real barrier to gainful employment is low income mindsets and cultural environments that have presented this population of individuals with significant challenges. Many have not taken the proper time needed to go through an adjustment period or the deprograming and reprograming process to educate them on soft-skills training and corporate etiquette. This has caused individuals to lose jobs or worse, not even make it through the interview or hiring process, with no understanding as to why. This rejection can demotivate and demoralize this already vulnerable population, creating a cycle of unemployment, low self-esteem, and financial crisis.
P.R.E.P. is a four-day impact training course used for guiding students that are seeking the next steps to attain career goals through vocational training. Our three-point training strategy supports goal-setting, workplace communication skills, high-demand skills assessment, digital micro-credentialing and therapeutic group sessions which educate on problem solving, anger management, leadership skills development and conflict resolution.
P.R.E.P. is strategically designed to be a recalibrating process that opens the minds of our students so that they can receive the information provided to them while attending vocational training. This process is a prerequisite for all students who attend vocational training programs.
Our instructors for P.R.E.P. Week are military Veterans equipped with a unique set of leadership skills to engage and challenge populations that have traditionally low training success rates, such as the homeless, Veterans, Re-Entry citizens, Opportunity Youth, and underemployed adults. We are ready to help you transition into the workforce and achieve success.