TUNICA WORKFORCE CENTER INC
PO BOX 15, ROBINSONVILLE, MS 38664

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Mission it to create a work ready community one step at a time by giving the community the skills needed to be productive caring citizens and to enhance their quality of life. We thrive to provide employers with a well-qualified, trained and educated workforce.

Workforce Development: -Focusing on the workforce needs of the local community. -Working in conjunction with local economic development initiatives. -Enhancing workforce trainings. -Fostering partnerships by supporting the local Tunica County Workforce Development program. Primary focus is on the low-income families and poverty stricken communities who need jobs, readiness training, and employers who will hire these applicants. The Tunica Workforce Center assists in providing workforce job placements and needed workforce development trainings and services. These services include: Employability Trainings, Pre-Employment Trainings, Customer Service Training, Hospitality Training, Job Readiness Training, Forklift Certification Trainings, OSHA Safety Trainings, Train-the-Trainer Trainings, Manufacturing Trainings, and Basic Skills Trainings. Also, the Tunica Workforce Center provides services and trainings to make sure that working parents have access to affordable quality childcare/daycare services. The Workforce Center also provides valuable employment services to employers to help them employee the local low-income people by fostering stronger work-hire relationships in the area.

Education Program: The Tunica Workforce Center helps to provide necessary community education programs that will assist adults and youths to be able to have a better quality of life. The education program looks at the formal public school system and the necessary reforms that must be undertaken to ensure that all students and parents have access to a first-rate quality education system that will prepare them to be progressive citizens. At the same time, the education system includes pre and post employment programs to help prepare people to be gainfully employed if they do not go to college. The Tunica Workforce Center assists in providing GED/Adult Education Trainings, Computer Usage Training, Technology Training, and lifestyle services (obesity, heart, health, etc.). Also the Tunica Workforce Center provides education and training services through the Returning Citizens Program to help insure safe and productive communities. The Tunica Workforce Center will help with recruiting, placement, and information sharing to help local people to get with the right employer.

Community Organizing: The Tunica Workforce Center helps to provide needed community organizing and building workshops and services to help the low-income communities of color to enhance the cohesiveness of each community to be self empowered. The trainings include the outreach to establish a public transportation system that will allow community people to be self sustaining. The Workforce Center also provide trainings and workshops on Civic Engagement, Census Work, youth development, and GIS Mapping. Accountability trainings and workshops are conducted with the local officials to ensure that the local policies that impact their communities are implemented. Conflict Resolution Trainings are conducted to make sure that communities are empowered and not divided. Team Building Trainings are conducted to teach all races how to co-exist to make a stronger community. During emergency times, the Tunica Workforce Center will become a direct conduit for necessary services (food, water, medical, etc.) to help the local community to survive.

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