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SBBCollege Cares Joins the Veterans Stand Down in Bakersfield

In an attempt to extend our service from the classroom to the rest of the community, SBBCollege Cares will provide community service to the California Veterans Assistance Foundation on Friday, Sept 28th.

The CVAF assists homeless or at-risk veterans to help them maintain or improve their status in society by providing services and resources in a safe and secure environment.

The CVAF will hold a Veterans Stand Down this October in Bakersfield to provide these services to veterans. SBBCollege Cares will help the CVAF sort, fold and pack clothing donated to the Stand Down for veterans in need.

SBBCollege Bakersfield is located at 5300 California Ave, and offers year-round career training to their community in the fields of business, criminal justice, legal studies, healthcare, medical office and nursing. SBBCollege also provides assistance to veterans looking to return to school after their service, including putting their educational benefits to use, such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Success Stories: Students Find Careers After Graduating from Medical School Training in Santa Maria

In their quest to reach their career goals, these students attended our college in Santa Maria. After receiving medical assisting training and taking classes to prepare them for their medical office careers, SBBCollege is happy to report they have successfully found careers in the healthcare industry!

Juliana G. – Medical Clerk, Local Physician’s Office, Santa Maria

Callen W. – Pharmacy Technician, Local Retail Pharmacy, Lompoc

Nalelli B. – Health Aide, Long-Term Care Facility, Solvang

Maira V. – Medical Assistant, Local Physician’s Office, Santa Maria

Natalie N. – Medical Assistant, Nationally-Recognized Family Clinic, Santa Maria

SBBCollege Santa Maria Graduation Ceremony

Santa Barbara Business College will hold a graduation ceremony to honor the College’s graduating class on Friday, August 24, 2012. The ceremony will take place at the Santa Maria Fairpark’s Convention Center at 7:00 pm.

94 graduates are expected to graduate this term, and will receive associate’s degrees or diplomas in the career fields of business administration, criminal justice, and paralegal studies. Medical students in the vocational nursing, medical assisting, pharmacy technology and medical office classes at SBBCollege will be graduating as well.

Ramon Gomez from Santa Maria’s Public Defender’s Office will deliver the keynote speech.

Graduates Celebrate Commencement from Ventura College Campus

SBBCollege recently honored its graduates of the Ventura college campus. Graduates received associate’s degrees and diplomas in business administration, criminal justice, paralegal studies, medical assisting and medical office career training programs.

Joel A. Garcia, with the assistance of interpreter Judy Norcross, delivered the keynote address, as he shared his experience from struggling in gangs in his youth to reaching success in his adult life.

Student Success: Graduates Start Careers in Coachella Valley as Legal Assistant, Juvenile Services Officer and More!

After receiving career training in the criminal justice classes and the paralegal degree program at Santa Barbara Business College in Rancho Mirage, these graduates have started their new criminal justice careers and legal office careers. Great job graduates!

Brytni P. – Security Officer, Local Casino, Coachella

Nancy A. – Legal Assistant, Financial Services Company, Palm Desert

Mitchel H. – Juvenile Services Officer, Major Youth Services Club, Indio

Blanca C. – Security Officer, Golf Club & Resort Facility, La Quinta

These graduates received their training from SBBCollege Rancho Mirage. This campus also offers career training in medical office, business administration, nursing and medical assisting.

SBBCollege Cares Joins Habitat for Humanity in Oxnard

In their quest to extend their helping spirit from the classroom into the community, SBBCollege Cares closed its campuses and offices to join Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County for a build day in Oxnard.

The SBBCollege Ventura and Santa Barbara campuses, as well as the College’s administrative office in Ventura, helped HFHVC in their construction of two houses in Oxnard – meant for two deserving families.

The College Cares group put in over 200 hours of labor into the homes, as they helped spackle and sand the houses’ garages, cut and install dry wall on the first house and prime and paint the walls and ceilings of the second house.

It was a lot of hard work, but well worth the cause as the College helped HFHVC towards their dedication goal date of mid-September.

For more information on SBBCollege Cares, including other community service projects and the low/no-cost training offered at the campuses, please visit www.sbbcollegecares.com.

Student Success: Business School Graduates Start Careers as Accounting Clerk, Marketing Manager and More!

After receiving career training in the business administration classes at Santa Barbara Business College, these graduates received their degrees in business and have started their business office careers. Great job graduates!

Ivette A. – Administrative Assistant, Local Resort Hotel, Palm Springs

Janneth A. – Accounting Clerk, Casino, Coachella

Aldo C. – Marketing Manager, Local Resort Hotel, Palm Desert

Ciclaly M. – General Office Clerk, Major Bank, Coachella

These graduates received their training from SBBCollege Rancho Mirage. This campus also offers career training in medical office, criminal justice, nursing, paralegal studies and medical assisting.

SBBC Graduate – How He Became a Student, a Man, and a Medical Assistant

SBBCollege Santa Barbara recently held a commencement ceremony for their graduating class of 2012. Honoring their grads, the ceremony included a keynote speech from Santa Barbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez, as well as student speeches reflecting on their time at Santa Barbara Business College.

Rogelio S., graduate of the Santa Barbara college’s medical assisting program, shared his experience at SBBC and described how he became a student, a man, and finally, a medical assistant.

Good evening everyone, and welcome to Santa Barbara Business College graduation ceremony of 2012.

My name is Rogelio Schulte and today I will be sharing my personal experience at SBBC. Is there anyone who knew what they wanted to do when they grew up? Knew what they were passionate about? And actually did it? Not me!

Not until a few years ago. Then I realized I wanted to help people. Whether it was spiritual, financial or health related, I really wanted to make a positive impact in people’s lives.

Before I enrolled at SBBC, I was working at an office supply store – stocking heavy boxes, assisting customers, and working 5am shifts. I was helping people, but not quite the way I wanted. I wanted to do more.

One summer, my mother shared news with me about a college that she heard from a friend. With hesitation, I went forward with this opportunity. Feeling anxious and curious, I called SBBC and asked for a consultation appointment. Later that week, I visited the College for the first time, and I remember like it was just yesterday. My hands were sweaty, with butterflies in my stomach, feeling as if I was about to ask my girlfriend out for the first time.

I opened the entrance to the College, and felt the cool breeze from the air conditioning relax me, and heard nothing but the sound of my footsteps as I walked in. Soon a very nice young lady assisted me with the consultation. She explained how the College had multiple programs, and so forth. One program in particular really got my attention – and that program was medical assisting. This was the start of a new beginning for me.

My early experience at SBBC was phenomenal. Our faculty was great. One teacher in particular inspired me. Not only did he look just like Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” but he had the same energy and enthusiasm that would go around the room. I could not help but to listen. He gave me an image of what I could become when helping others.

The entire faculty was individuals who had great personalities and teaching skills that lit a fire in me. Call it maturity on my part, but I never had so much fun learning in school.

 

Unfortunately, college was not as simple as I thought it would be. It was not that the classes were too difficult, but as I passed a few semesters, I began to lose sight of my main goal. Skeletons from my past started to pull me in, and college became extremely difficult. I would miss classes to go hang out with friends. I would not finish my assignments. I was not taking college seriously. Above all, I began to doubt myself. I started building a nightmare of a routine. Soon after, failing classes was what I was becoming good at.

As my skeletons pulled me in deeper, I took a couple of semesters off trying to get my head back in the game. I believed that taking a break would get me re-motivated and I would be able to give it my all as soon as I began college again. But boy was I wrong. Being young in a beautiful city like Santa Barbara, there are many distractions. It is very easy to get sucked into the night life – making it harder for me to focus on my education.

I started college again, but my old habits still lingered. Someone once said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Looking back, I was a bit insane. I had no idea the hole I was digging myself in to.

Fortunately, I had help. Four words – Santa Barbara Business College.

SBBC was like a second family to me. The people gave me the tools that I needed to succeed. Business instructor Laura taught me with tough love. Her dominant teaching really pushed me to try harder.

Reshan, the medical instructor, taught me with patience; she would always answer the bizarre medical questions that I asked. She taught me how to always give people and myself chances.

Mr. Diaz taught me to dress for success. He taught me how to conduct myself in the big complicated world out there.

Mr. B. was my favorite instructor. He taught me about respect. He respected me as a student, no matter how bad I was doing. He taught me how to respect myself.

Betsy is the sweetheart. I always felt safe around her. She taught me how to always be kind to difficult people.

Andy the dean that refused to give up on his students, he taught me to never give up on my dreams.

While I am in the process of thanking people, let me thank the most important people to me – my family. They always believed in me; even when I didn’t have an inch of belief in myself.

As a result of all of this help, I found myself as a student, as a man, and as a medical assistant working at American Indian Health and Services. So if anyone is having health problems, come on by, my team and I will do what we can to help all of you.

In closing, let me share with you how I feel right now. I feel proud, I feel hope, I feel we did it. We did it!

Thank you.

Congratulations to Roy and the rest of the graduating class of 2012 – you did it!

Success Stories: Santa Barbara Grads Receive Degrees & Start Careers!

SBBCollege Santa Barbara held its annual graduation ceremony on June 29, 2012 at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara.

Along with honoring graduates for the completion of their academic programs, the College is also congratulating them on starting their new careers!

Magda and Julie – graduates of Santa Barbara’s medical assisting training program, have started their careers as medical assistants at a local spine clinic and the Neighborhood Clinic in Santa Barbara.

Erica and Roy also graduated from the medical assisting program in Santa Barbara, and are now working as medical assistants at a local orthopedic clinic and American Indian Health, respectively.

Congratulations graduates!

SBBCollege Ventura hosts Blood Drive for Communities of Ventura and Oxnard

As part of Santa Barbara Business College’s SBBCollegeCares program,SBBCollege Ventura hosted a blood drive on July 3, 2012 at their campus on Market Street in Ventura.

Partnering with the United Blood Services of the Central Coast – along with local radio stations Q104.7 and KVTA – SBBCollege hoped to contribute to the blood bank’s blood supply for the 4th of July holiday. With 25 donation appointments, and with donors coming from all over the County, including Ventura and Oxnard, the College was well on its way to reach its goal!