Special Services

This is what we do:

Special Services provides assurances that individuals who are members of Special Populations will be provided with equal access to recruitment, enrollment, career services activities and the full range of technical education programs and activities.

Special Populations Students are:

• Individuals with Disabilities
• Individuals from Economically Disadvantaged Families, including Low-income Youth and Adults (Receiving PELL, WIOA, TANF, Vocational Rehabilitation, ETC)
• Individuals Preparing for Non-traditional Fields (A student in a non-traditional program who has chosen to enter training for a field that is dominated by persons of the opposite sex, such as a male in nursing or a female in automotive technology)
• Single Parent, including Single Pregnant Women (A person who has primary or joint custody of a dependent child. May be divorced, widowed, legally separated, never married, or a person who is single and pregnant.)
• Out-Of-Workforce Individuals (A person who has not been employed outside of the home, recently suffered loss of income, or recently lost a spouse/partner)
• English Learners (Primary language is not English or limited ability to write or understand English)
• Homeless Individuals
• Youth Who Are In or Have Aged out of the Foster Care System
• Youth with Parents on Active Duty in the Armed Forces

Special Population Survey (Submit to eben.risper@sctech.edu, serving Griffin, Butts, Henry, Jasper,  mary.jackson@sctech.edu, serving Upson)

This is why you would come to us:

• Admissions and Career Counseling
• Lending Library Online Application
• Employability Workshops
• Life Management Lunch and Learns
• College and Community Resource Referrals
• Classroom Accommodations
• EMBARK Points of Contact.  For more information, please visit https://embarkgeorgia.org/home
• Virtuous Women Life Academy, Inc.
• Tiger Care Cabinet – Request complimentary non-perishable food and personal essential needs items for students in need.
• Food Pantries within the SCTC Service Delivery Area

This is how we can help you:

• One-on-one Needs Assessment
• Classroom Presentations
• Life Management Skills
• Textbooks, Program Tools and Equipment Assistance
• Tutoring Referrals
• Tiger’s Assistance Program/TAP – Services are provided at no cost and are confidential.  ESPYR can help solve a full range of challenges, as well as day-to-day needs. For more information, please visit the TAP website at www.espyr.com or call 1-866-734-5890.
• Academic Coaching
• Non-traditional Support Groups
• College Survival Skills
• Voices for Change:
  As part of our federal compliance mandate to address Title IX and comprehensive prevention efforts for college students Southern Crescent Technical College has partnered with Get Inclusive to present the course Voices for Change to all students.Voices for Change focuses on: Consent and Sexual Violence (Title IX), Alcohol and Other Drugs, and Hazing and Intimidation. Research says that people learn better when they take time to reflect on what they’re learning, Get Inclusive designed this course to give you time to apply the concepts to your own life and consider the effects of certain behaviors on you and those around you.Student Review: Voices for ChangeAll survey responses are confidential; the school will only receive information about the student body as a whole and will never see any individual student’s answers.