Non-profit, CCs team for free MARKS, Miss. - Dennis Washington, an 11-year custodian and bus driver for the Tunica County (Miss.) School District, has aspired to become an electrician. For a few months now, the 50-year-old Tunica native has searched for online certification classes. His wife learned of an opportunity: a 6-to-8-week residential electrical wiring class in Marks, and it was free. He would have had to pay for online class. “I found this, and by the grace God, I got in it,” he told Mississippi Today. The “hands-on experience” is a part of the Career Empowerment Center, a job training program for people 18 and older in Quitman and neighboring counties. The program is run by the non-profit Marks Project in partnership with Coahoma and Northwest Mississippi community colleges. The project’s goal is to eradicate poverty through education, recreation, quality of life employment and job training. In Quitman County. where its located, the median household income is $25,283, according to Census data. The program offers training in residential electrical wiring, welding, forklift operating, screen printing, report writing, basic computer skills, and GED prep. Both community colleges offer classes for the project and each class is required to have at least five students. (Source: Mississippi Today 12/26/20) How a Delta nonprofit and local community colleges are teaming up to provide free job training | State Government | djournal.com
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