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Co-Lin partners with ACT to pilot ACT Work Ready Community Regional Academy
WESSON- Copiah-Lincoln Community College and ACT have partnered to pilot the new ACT Work Ready Community Regional Academy approach. The first of its kind, Co-Lin’s Wesson Campus recently hosted representatives from six counties for the regional academy. The academy featured seminars on strategic planning, customer focus, social mapping, and goal achievement.
The ACT Work Ready Communities initiative is designed to assist a particular area, region or state in developing its workforce pipeline to provide skilled workers for employers. The framework allows each participating community to quantify and improve the skill levels of its workforce through a standardized workforce skill credential—the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate™—supported by data updated online by Iowa-based ACT on a monthly basis. “ACT Work Ready Communities (WRC) empowers states, regions, and counties with data, process, and tools that drive economic growth. The ACT Academy system trains counties and regions to implement, grow, and sustain their local ACT WRC Initiative,” said ACT Regional Manager Fred McConnel. “ACT chose to pilot the regional academy approach with Co-Lin because of the strength of their existing core team and successes the area has already seen with the Work Ready Certification of Lincoln County.”
Representatives from Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, and Simpson counties attended the academy in preparation to launch their own Work Ready Community Initiative. For more information regarding Co-Lin’s Workforce Education Division, visit https://careertraining.colin.edu/ or call 601.643.8707.
