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Core and Intensive services to Workforce
Center clients, and services to eligible Title I clients
(unemployed, underemployed and dislocated adults and youth)
under the Workforce Investment Act. These services may include
assessment and testing, job search and placement, labor market
information, resume writing, counseling, training provider
information, assistance with financial aid applications, adult
literacy and skills enhancement, and access to assisted or
self-directed resource area with fax, computers, internet
access, and phones for career exploration.
Title I clients must meet federal
requirements under the Workforce Investment Act.
Adults must be legal to work, must be18 years of age or older
and low income. Dislocated Workers must be laid off; receiving
UI benefits, or a displaced homemaker. Youth must be aged
14 - 21, low income, and have at least one barrier such as:
basic skills deficient, school dropout, homeless, runaway
or foster child, pregnant or parenting, living in a remote
area, or be an offender, etc.
Title I clients may be eligible
to receive financial assistance for training in state-approved
occupations.
Sebastian, Crawford, Polk,
Franklin, Scott, and Logan Counties
None
Federal Workforce
Investment Act funds
Martha Anne Holt, Executive
Director
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1500 East Main Street, Van Buren, AR 72956
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 479-474-7061
Arkansas Workforce Center at Fort Smith
616 Garrison Avenue, Room 101
Fort Smith, AR 72902
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 479-783-0231
Booneville Courthouse
Booneville, AR 72927
Call for appointment
Phone: 479-675-5501
Arkansas Tech University - Ozark Campus
Hwy 23 North
Ozark, AR 72949
Wednesday, 8 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Phone: 479-667-2117
Rich Mountain Community College
1100 College Drive
Abernathy Building
Mena, AR 71953
Alternating Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 1p.m.
(or by appointment if later)
Phone: (479) 474-7061
Scott County Courthouse
100 West First Street, Suite 1
Waldron, AR 72958
Monday, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Phone: 479-637-2155
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