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Workplace: Using Personality Profiles for Better Work Performance

$245

with UGotClass LERN, Windham/Raymond Adult Education

Calendar Aug 4, 2025 , runs for 4 weeks
1 additional session on Nov 3, 2025

Understanding yourself and others will increase your overall effectiveness at work, home, and in all of your relationships. Learn how to improve your communication with others, convey your ideas effectively, and improve your ability to understand what is important to those who don’t share your same style. Course fee includes your own DiSC Behavioral Personality Profile assessment and review.

CEUs/ILUs: 1.6Length (in hours): 16Price in USD $295.00

Writing News and Press Releases

$195

with LERN U Got Class, Sanford Community Adult Education

Calendar Aug 4, 2025 , runs for 4 weeks
1 additional session on Nov 3, 2025

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.

Being able to write a good news story, press release or publicity notice is a skill that can set you apart in the workplace. Getting the word out is an essential activity for every organization. Acquire the skills good journalists have and learn how to craft a news story, press release, or publicity notice that will get attention.

For full details, see:  https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

 

Captain's License Information Night

Free

with John Coffin, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar Aug 6, 2025 at 6 pm
Are you interested in obtaining a USCG Captain’s License? Do you want to learn the differences between an Operator Uninspected Passenger Vessel (OUPV) license and a Master 100GT license, and what experience the Coast Guard requires for each? This informational session will help answer these questions and others about the two licenses. Also discussed will be the different methods for completing the course requirements. This information session represents the Captain School Key West/Miami and is free, but please register in advance so the instructor knows how many individuals will be attending and can send login instructions.

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Phlebotomy Application

Free

with Meagan Corriveau, MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education

Calendar Aug 18, 2025 at 11 am

***This is ONLY the APPLICATION. Students must be interviewed and accepted into the course. Upon acceptance the cost of the training will be $1,800.00.   Course will only run with at least 4 students in the class.**

This course is designed to prepare the entry-level phlebotomist or those individuals seeking a medical career pathway with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to perform in a medical laboratory environment. The phlebotomy student gains confidence and professionalism in the art of obtaining blood samples for laboratory analysis through repeated hands-on practice and instructor feedback. Students are provided instruction in the areas of communication, medical terminology, proper specimen collection, basic anatomy & physiology, as well as complications and variables surrounding venipuncture. In addition to instruction students will complete a 2 week clinical experience.

Upon completion of the course students will receive 3 credits through UMPI. The cost for this program is $1800.  Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.

Upon registration, program and application materials will be sent to you.

***Preference will be given to those who complete (or start the process of) immunizations prior to the interview. This includes HepB, which takes several weeks to complete. 

Application deadline is Friday, August 1st, 2025 and interviews will follow shortly after.  Classes will begin on August 18th and go until Oct 10th.  Class meets in person at UMPI every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. There will be a 2 week clinical experience following completion of the lecture component of the course.  Clinical locations to be determined.

Advanced Legal Research & Writing

$995 Originally: $0

with Center for Legal Studies, Sanford Community Adult Education

Calendar Jul 1, 2025 , runs for 7 weeks
1 additional session on Aug 25, 2025

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

This exciting course is designed to teach advanced and specialized approaches to utilize the legal resources available in a law library, and elsewhere. The conceptual differences between computer-assisted legal research and hard-copy research will be taught. You will also learn how to formulate WESTLAW search queries and effectively and efficiently use WESTLAW and other online legal research methods as time-saving devices in legal research and legal writing. This course is designed to examine more thoroughly advanced and specialized approaches to utilizing the legal sources available in the law library and online. Successful graduates of this non-credit course will be awarded a Certificate of Completion from the college or university of their choice.

Lesson 1: Legal Authorities and Citations

Lesson 2: Legal Analysis

Lesson 3: Westlaw© online legal research

Lesson 4: The Legal Memorandum of Law

Lesson 5: Manual Legal Research

Lesson 6: Types of Legal Writing Course Objectives

How to conduct manual legal research.  How to conduct electronic legal research.  How to find, interpret, and use various types of legal authorities.  How to share with legal authorities.  How to write a legal analysis.  How to draft a Memorandum of Law.  How to briefcase opinions How to engage in various types of legal writing, participants will be expected to complete reading and homework assignments and will be assigned an advanced legal research project and legal writing assignment. Final research and writing projects will be presented for grading to the instructor or CLS by Barbri as a prerequisite of course completion.

PREREQUISITE: Students must have completed the core Paralegal Certificate Course or have one year of paralegal experience before enrolling in this course.

Books Approximate Cost: $400

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

 

Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation) Certificate

$995 Originally: $0

with Center for Legal Studies, Sanford Community Adult Education

Calendar Jul 1, 2025 , runs for 7 weeks
2 additional sessions through Oct 20, 2025

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Become a mediator.  Review the growth and applications of settlement options in the United States.  Learn both traditional and non-traditional dispute resolution options.  Mediation is geared for all professionals who are focused on "interest-based bargaining."  Take the mystery out of settlement processes, focus on reaching reasonable solutions for government, business, and personal disputes, and divorce settlement mediation.

Books Approximate Cost: $225

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

 

CERTIFICATE Advanced Paralegal

$3,300 Originally: $0

with Center for Legal Studies, Sanford Community Adult Education

Calendar Jul 1, 2025 , runs for 52 weeks
2 additional sessions through Oct 20, 2025

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

These advanced topics build upon the nationally acclaimed Paralegal Certificate Course© offered by over 100 colleges and universities nationwide. These classes are available to students who wish to extensively build upon their knowledge of law and paralegal studies with classes in specialized facets of contemporary law. Your study and concentration on substantively specific materials will enable you to gain a strong competitive edge over other paralegals. The additional training gained through participation in these advanced classes will embellish your legal knowledge and skills, which in turn should increase your salary and marketability.

*Those who complete at least six advanced topics will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Completing both the Core Requirements and the Advanced Requirements of the Paralegal Certificate Program provides comprehensive training and skills that should enable graduates to work in the quickly growing paralegal profession. The two parts in combination have been designed to meet the requirements of the California Business and Professional Code §6450, legislation that took effect in California on 1/1/01.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the core Paralegal Certificate Course, or the equivalent, or law office experience.

Books Approximate Cost: $200 + topics

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

 

CERTIFICATE Paralegal

$2,095 Originally: $0

with Center for Legal Studies, Sanford Community Adult Education

Calendar Jul 1, 2025 , runs for 14 weeks
2 additional sessions through Oct 20, 2025

This class is distinctly online.

Paralegalism is one of the fastest growing careers in the country with an annual average salary of $44,480 (more if you freelance). Learn to interview witnesses, investigate complex fact patterns, research the law, prepare legal documents, and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice-oriented, specific to those areas of law in which paralegals are in demand.  Books: $521

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