Colorado - Meet Dakota

Workforce Challenge

Workforce Success Story Submitted By: Employment Services of Weld County

Dakota, 16 years old, loathed the traditional high school environment. She and her family did not see her making it to graduation as she couldn’t even make it to the second class in the day. She needed to explore high school equivalency (HSE) options so she could get on with what life had in store for her, to become a travel nurse.

Workforce Solution

Dakota met with her case manager who quickly noticed that Dakota was intelligent and too mature for the high school social life. The case manager had her take the TABE test, which proved Dakota was indeed intelligent and needed little preparation towards her HSE. Her case manager helped Dakota with get an age waiver approved so she could take the official HSE test.

Outcomes & Benefits

Four short months later, Dakota obtained her HSE! She would have had her HSE sooner, but the COVID-19 pandemic had testing sites only filling half of the seats and the testing site Dakota used, a local community college, closed down for a long winter break.

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