Career and Leadership Institute Application Process
2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner
Cabarrus County, N.C., NC
About the Program
Category: Children and Youth
Year: 2023
The Cabarrus County Career and Leadership Institute is a summer-long course offered to rising juniors within the County. The institute requires a rigorous application process, consisting of a student application, parental release, and referral. The application process for the 2022 summer left a lot to be desired and put a lot of work on members of the County’s Information Technology Services department. The IT liaison was constantly reaching out to students to inquire about application status and vice versa. For the summer of 2023, the development team and IT liaison completely rewrote the front-end application process via Laserfiche Forms public portal and the backend via Laserfiche Workflow. The rewrite was a massive success, and the process was much smoother for applicants, parents, references, and Cabarrus County ITS.