The Connect Your Community Program
The Lorain County Board of Commissioners and the Solid Waste Management District are pleased to announce the District's involvement with Lorain County Community College, RET-3 Job Corp and Connect Your Community in a new national program. The program offers free refurbished computers to qualified applicants within Lorain County.
The applicant must complete an approximately 25 hour free computer course which offers basic computer and internet instruction. The purpose of the class offers individuals an opportunity to get life skills on the computer, instruction on high speed internet and how to do basic research on the internet. Upon completion, the individual can get their free desktop computer.
On December 21, 2010 the first group to complete the curriculum attended an event at Lorain County Community College to kick off the first 181 computers distributed in Lorain County. This new campaign anticipates distributing 1,750 refurbished computers in Lorain County by May of 2012. The program is currently administered in Lorain & Cuyahoga Counties through Connect Your Community, a division of the Cleveland Housing Network.
(from the Lorain County Solid Waste Management newsletter http://www.loraincounty.us/solidwaste.aspx
For more information about participating in the classes check http://www.lorainccc.edu/community+services/connect+your+community
or call 440-366-7292
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