CAP’s vision is to create a strong community with healthy individuals and families, quality education, safe and affordable housing, and work that dignifies. Our mission is to assist and empower people to achieve social and economic well-being by providing services in partnership with our communities.
Annually, we provide 50,000 individuals with the assistance needed to achieve social and economic well-being.
The Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency is one of 28 community action agencies in the state of Minnesota and is part of a national network of over 1,000 agencies. We utilize a comprehensive service delivery method, which allows us to work in partnership with the communities we serve.
We work with individuals and families to understand all of their needs and then provide programs and services to ensure they are successful in achieving economic and social well-being. The comprehensive service delivery method provides a single point of entry for all services and programs, comprehensive assessment, joint case planning & management, and co-location of services.
For more information on an internship with CAP of Scott Carver Dakota Counties, reach out to:
Nate Bostrom, CAP Volunteer Coordinator
DCTC offers training in marketing and sales. For more information,
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Carie Statz is a marketing and sales instructor. She began teaching at DCTC in 1998.
Carie is pursuing her doctorate in business administration (DBA), has a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor's degree in from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she minored in Spanish and majored in mass communications with an emphasis on advertising and public relations.
At the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, she pursued general studies in Spanish and anthropology. She also attended the Grantsmanship Training Program at Marquette University.
Carie continues her education through software upgrades and Web applications. She also attends seminars, courses, and conferences covering new trends in marketing and graphic design.
Her nonprofit marketing experience includes supervisory positions at DCTC, UWM, and the Community Action Program of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her for-profit experience includes work for Walt Disney World, Oscar Mayer Foods, and TCF Bank of Wisconsin.
Carie published "How the News Media Affects the Public's Perception of Crime" as her thesis.
In 2003 and 2007, Carie was nominated as "DCTC Instructor of the Year." As DCTC's marketing director, she won several awards for marketing materials, including radio and television commercials as well as viewbooks and catalogs. In 2003, she won the Silver IABC Award for designing the college's 2002-2003 viewbook.
Regarding her teaching philosophy, Carie strives to "bring the real world into the classroom as much as possible so students are prepared for work upon graduation."
The best part of her job as a DCTC instructor is hearing from internship supervisors about how they would rather hire a prepared student from DCTC than another student from a four-year college.
Carie is a member of the American Marketing Association and does volunteer work for Treasurers of the Heart and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.
