Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
A NEW WAY to strengthen communities through partnership, education and opportunity.
Competency, Application and Mastery (CAM)
COMING SOON to Mineral and Hampshire Counties in WV
Empowering Future Leaders
CAM Pathways (CAMP) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization designed to empower future leaders beyond the classroom by turning the whole community, with a focus on partnerships with local churches and businesses, into a learning campus where education, work, and service are fully integrated. At the same time, their peers are just graduating from high school; participants can earn an accredited high school diploma, build real experience and relationships in their community, demonstrate true mastery of key subjects, and potentially complete a college degree or at least earn substantial college credit. By removing redundant coursework and organizing learning around mastery, apprenticeships, and job placement, and one-on-one mentoring with community leaders, CAM Pathways accelerates the journey from classroom to career so young people enter adulthood with stronger credentials, deeper purpose, and a proven record of impact in the workforce and their communities. Face it! Some people learn better by doing rather than by sitting in the classroom (not that there is anything wrong with the classroom).
Career Readiness Has Many Paths
Public school work-ready program
This program is an after-school apprenticeship or intern-based program focused on project management. Students can earn competency-based college credits and get paid by working with local employers and gaining valuable project management experience that can be used to satisfy the Project Management Professional (PMP) requirements.
A complementary public-facing after-school program is built to work with, not against, local districts by aligning with school goals and offering students a “work-ready” certificate that signals foundational skills and career-readiness to employers. This is accomplished by providing apprenticeships with local businesses and a competency- and mastery-based program that earns college credits and is ready for transfer.
Project Management-Project management is the discipline of applying processes, skills, tools, and knowledge to achieve specific project goals within defined constraints (scope, time, budget) by planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources, ensuring a unique product or result is delivered successfully from start to finish, unlike ongoing management. It involves guiding a team through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure phases to meet objectives and deliver value.
The average salary of a PMP is over $110,000 per year.
Whether or not you want to be a PMP, this program could still be beneficial for any student. Understanding project management can help a person in ANY career field by clarifying the "why" behind decisions.
The program not only helps students become better prepared and better leaders, but also gives local teachers, business owners, and parents the opportunity to work with a non-profit, earn a little extra spending money, and raise funds for their own classrooms, while helping mentor future leaders.
Participants can join a program that allows them to work toward an accredited associate degree, and in some cases a bachelor's degree, while still in high school.
There is no cost to the qualified student.
Mentors (often teachers) are able to earn as well.
Faith-Based micro-school accelerated academy
This program is free to local churches and non-profit organizations. The faith-based, individualized, micro-school program awards two diplomas. The first is a WV approved diploma from your own school. The second is from a nationally accredited diploma (through third party). There are also courses and assessments, evaluated by the American Council on Education (ACE), allowing students to potentially earn widely recognized college credit while still in high school. (Direct Assessments required for college credit).
Students will have the opportunity to earn a nationally accredited associate and in some cases a bachelors degree while still in high school. (As a result of redundancies being eliminated through competency-based efficiencies).
The program is project-based (not classroom-based), so students learn through hands-on experience in the community, and in many cases, in your church.
Using a competency, application, and mastery (CAM) framework, students move forward by demonstrating what they know and can do through real work, not just seat time. Apprenticeships and community-based projects with local partners give them the chance to apply their learning in authentic settings, build in-demand skills, and graduate with both advanced credentials and meaningful experience while earning college credit.
We provide the program, the teachers, the back-end infrastructure, and business operations.
Your church provides the name, space, and a non-instructing volunteer (or paid, depending on you) classroom "guide". The number of hours is determined by the church program.
Because the program is competency-based and not classroom-based, the amount of time students are in the classroom is determined by your church. (We are currently only offering accredited high school programs, but K-8 will be available.)
Your church earns tuition from the WV "HOPE" Scholarship program at no expense to the families.
Business partners in the community will potentially be able to take advantage of tax breaks and youth workforce initiatives. This includes much of the compensation for the apprentice being reimbursed (requires WOIA approval).
All classes are infused with your church's message as well as all the information required to do well on standardized testing required by state and national laws. We will work with you to design your own classes that can be integrated into the already provided curriculum.
Phase I is high school. Phase II is K-8.
All programs lead to two diplomas. One will be from your church school (approved by the state of WV), as well as a Nationally accredited third-party school program. Thus, graduates receive 2 diplomas.
Students will have the opportunity to earn an associate degree and beyond while simultaneously completing their competency-based secondary education.
Our Services
Empowering communities through education, efficiency and innovation
Education
Providing valuable resources and training for future leaders through our faith-based micro-school program and our public school work ready program. Our programs are regionally accredited through third-party providers. Our competency-based work-ready program is built on a foundation of American College of Education (ACE) evaluation.
Apprenticeships
As a non-profit intermediary, we connect aspiring professionals with hands-on experience and community mentorship through partnership, apprenticeship.
We build a program specific to your business and your business benefits from the plethora of incentives for participation from state and federal programs.
Job Placement-Partnership
Employers may be able to work with us to help find their future leaders, support their employees, and feel comfortable that they have been appropriately vetted.
Not only apprenticeships, but also full-time, part-time, and executive placements.
Service 2 Civilian Pathways (S2C)-Partnership
Churches can take advantage of the micro-school movement without paying a dime to start their own microschool or to manage it thereafter. Spread your message! Grow your resources! Build your congregation! Foster tomorrow's leaders!
If accepted into the program, our partners provide the teachers and the accredited program and help your church to build a tailored curriculum based on your message.
Local Schools can supplement the great work they do by offering ACE-approved courses for high school students free of charge as part of a Competency-Based, Mastery program. At the same time, as an intermediary, we can help students participate in recognized apprenticeship programs (RAP).
Faith-Based Micro-School Development
Local-School Partnership
The Service 2 Civilian Pathways (S2C) program helps service members and their families transition from their military service into civilian life. To learn more click on the Service2Civilian link in the menu bar.
Life happens, bills pile up, and priorities shift. You had a dream of going to college, but something happened along the way that prevented it from being realized. We can help through our tailored, apprenticeship- and job-centered degree-completion program with a third-party partner. You don't have to let go of the dream.
Degree Completion Program
Strategic and business consulting to help your company thrive. Experts in project management and strategic initiatives.
Potentially Free for Non-Profit organizations and Churches in Mineral Country
Business and Strategic Consulting
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