Counseling information

Welcome and Schedule
RAM Path Description
RamPath MAPS
First Semester class by major
Graduation Information

Welcome and Counselors Schedule - Email melanie.dube-price@vvc.edu

Welcome to Your VVC Journey!

I’m Melanie Dube-Price, the Pathway Counselor for Public Safety, Skilled Trades, Industry, and Transportation. As we continue to engage more online and via Zoom, please note that I can only communicate with you through your student email for security and confidentiality reasons. Personal email accounts are often unreliable and may not be delivered.

I will be updating this page over the summer, so it may look different when we come back in the Summer. Summer Schedule will be up shortly, but I will be out of the office from June 15th to July 7th.

Important Notice: There are no Drop-in times on the following days. Please always check before you drive to one of the campuses—things change.

Please note that starting March 11th, Tuesdays from 2 to 4, I have minimal drop-in times; on Tuesdays, maybe two people.

NO Drop in's May 8th - Orentation day and Avaition

NO Drop in's May 15th - Multidispline day - if you are interested in academy good day to come out take a look 8:00 to 12:00

No appointments on Memorial Day, May 26th

No Drop in's or appointments -June 12th

I am available located at the Regional Public Safety Training Center:
19190 Navajo Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307

On MAIN CAMPUS TUESDAY ONLY - Fall and Spring

To schedule an appointment with me directly, HERE

If you need the Zoom link for your appointment but can’t locate it in your email, I have attached it here. Zoom link

Scheduling Issues?
If you need help booking an appointment, drop-in times are your best option for seeing me within the same or next week. Please refer to the drop-in day appointments below. If a drop-in day needs to be canceled, I will update the information accordingly, so please check back the morning up

Please understand that, like everyone, unexpected situations may arise that require me to reschedule. If I need to cancel an appointment I initiated, I will always do my best to get you back in within a few days.

I will only have Dropin in January on selected days: Zoom and in person, but at Regional only.

Winter

Monday (RPSTC)

Tuesday (Main)

Wednesday (RPSTC)

Thursday (RPSTC)

Friday

This area is the times you can book appointments

They can be Zoom or in person

Phone appt - you still call into the Zoom.

10:30 to 3:30

(10:30 to 15:30)

8:30 to 1:00

(9:00 to 13:00)

8:30 to 10:30

1:00 to 3:00

(13:00 to 15:00)

900 to 1:00

(9:00 to 13:00)

This area is my same-day Drop-in appointments.

Zoom M/Th and in person T/W

Zoom Only -

8:30 to 10:30

In Person -Main Campus

2:00 to 4:00

In-person

10:30 to 12:30

Zoom -

1:00 to 3:00

(13:00-15:00)

NONE

VVC Ram Path Description

The Public Safety RAMPath is designed to prepare students to enter into a career in the field of corrections, criminal justice, emergency medical services, firefighting, forensics, paramedics, or police. The Public Safety RAMPath offers degree and certificate programs approved by the Chancellor’s Office and recognized by the industry through program accreditation. With the combination of lecture and hands-on experiences, these highly engaging programs offer students real-life and simulated experiences where they can develop the skills necessary to transfer into a highly specialized career and/ or continue their education at a four-year university. Each program within the Public Safety RAMPath leverages local industry partners to ensure the curriculum is aligned with current industry standards while providing students with local opportunities for internships and/or work experience.

Explore Degrees and Certificates Here

The Skilled Trades, Industry & Transportation RAMPath, is designed to prepare students to enter into a career in the field of automotive maintenance, aviation maintenance, composite aerospace manufacturing, construction, and welding. The Skilled Trades, Industry & Transportation RAMPath offers degree and certificate programs approved by the Chancellor’s Office and recognized by the industry through program accreditation. With the combination of lecture and hands-on experiences, these highly engaging programs offer students real-life and simulated experiences where they can develop the skills necessary to transfer into a highly specialized career and/ or continue their education at a four-year university. Each program within the Skilled Trades, Industry & Transportation RAMPath leverages local industry partners to ensure the curriculum is aligned with current industry standards while providing students local opportunities for internships and/or work experience.

Explore Degrees and Certificates Here

Rampath Maps

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First Semester Class Suggestion by Major - Recommendations

Auto	Aviation	Criminal Justice	Construction
1. Auto 50 (All auto, must have first) - 4 units 2. English 101 - 4 units 3. Auto 77.3 - 2 units 4. Any 3 unit elective Total = 13 units	Aviation open enrollment into AVA 51 if you get in your in cohort. Suggestion to to build units and towards degree. 1. English 101 - 4 units 2. hlth 102 - 3 units 3. Guid 101, 105, Art 104, or cmst 106 - 3 units 4. Any 3 unit elective Total = 13 units	CJ 101 - 3 units English 101 - 4 units hlth 102 - 3 units 3 unit elective Total - 13 units	This one depends on your certificate, good first start classes CT 101, 116, 110 Going for a degree 1. English 101 2. hlth - 102 3. Any 3 unit elective Total - Vary
EMR/EMT (leads to paramedic)	Fire	Welding
1. EMS 50 - Will earn you BLS CPR class, prep for 60 Class. Offered 8 weeks (6 weeks summer/winter) 2.5 units 2. EMS 60 - Offered 18 and 8 weeks fall/spring 6 weeks summer/winter (highly intensive) 9.5 units Total- 12 with EMS 50	1. EMS 60 (EMS 50 recommend prep) - 9.5 2. Fire 61B - .5 units (one day- all day) 3. Fire 66 - 1 unit (two days - all day) 4. Fire 82A - 1.5 units (3 days - all day) Total units - 12.5 units or 14.5 with EMS 50 If you are planning on enrolling in our Fire prerequisite class, Fire 66 or 61 b, or our academy Fire 95 classes, you must apply for your state fire training (SFT) ID before they come to class. You do not have to be in the class to apply, so if you are waitlisted please have this done. The link is below. https://osfm-sft.acadisonline.com/AcadisViewer/WebForms/Public/UserDataCollector.aspx?ID=23f694dd-a9a4-4c5c-8751-22672bab0457	1. Weld 51 - 3 units 2. English 101 - 4 units 3. hlth 102 - 3 units 4. any 3 unit elective class Total - 13 units

Graduation Information

Deadlines

Spring 2025 (June) until March 31, 2025
Summer 2025 (August) until July 3, 2025
Apply for certificates and Degrees HERE
Grad check week -March 18th - March 31st -