YouScience to Offer New Certification Exams for Law Enforcement and Emergency Services

Secondary & Post-Secondary Students Using YouScience Will Have Access to Industry-Recognized Certifications

  • By Kristal Kuykendall
  • 05/13/22

Career planning and skills assessment platform YouScience has announced it will begin offering secondary and post-secondary students using its platform the opportunity to earn two new types of certifications thanks to an expanded partnership with the Law and Public Safety Education Network.

The new options will include the NECI 9-1-1 Communications Officer certification and the International Foundation for Protection Officers Certified Protection Officer certification, available for students nationwide through YouScience’s Precision Exams feature.

YouScience offers over 200 industry-recognized career certifications, aligned with the 16 National Career Clusters and 21st Century Skills and with all requirements for Perkins V, as well as federal and state funding, according to a news release.

Learn more at YouScience.com.

About the Author

Kristal Kuykendall is editor, 1105 Media Education Group. She can be reached at [email protected].


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