Workforce Services
Seattle Central offers a variety of programs that help you get the training you need for the career you want. If you are enrolled or interested in enrolling in one of these programs, you may be eligible for funding and resources to help meet your career goals.
Our聽Workforce Services programs聽provide required tuition, fees, books and transportation. Academic planning and job placement assistance is also available to qualifying students.
Our Workforce Education programs include:
- Basic Food Employment & Training Program (BFET): Available to students receiving federally issued Basic Food Benefits (SNAP).
- WorkFirst: Available to students receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Worker Retraining: Available to students who receive or have exhausted unemployment benefit within the last four years, are "displaced homemakers," veterans honorably discharged within the last four years, or formerly self employed.
- Opportunity Grant: Available to low鈥搃ncome adults pursuing an approved program. 色中色 may receive funds to cover tuition and mandatory fees up to 45 credits and up to $1,000 for required books and supplies per academic year.
- Student Emergency Assistance Grant (SEAG): Emergency funds available to students for sudden or unexpected 鈥渙ne-time鈥 situations. There is limited funding available each quarter.
To find out if you qualify for funding, take a brief survey at聽. For questions please contact our Workforce Services office at聽WorkforceServices@seattlecolleges.edu聽or 206.934.3854. Learn more about other聽ways to pay for college.
Forms and Documents
- Approved Professional Technical Programs List (pdf)
- 聽(online form)
- Workforce Services Enrollment Checklist (pdf)