Montgomery Workforce Development Board Honors Two

By: Add Penfield

6/10/2009

 

 

 

ASHEBORO—Two participants in programs offered in Montgomery county under provisions of the congressional Workforce Investment Act (WIA) have been recognized for excelling in pursuit of their employment goals by the Pee Dee Region Workforce Development Board. The board functions in coordination with Regional Consolidated Services (RCS) of Asheboro.

           

Jacqueline R. Clark, a graduate of the Criminal Justice Technology curriculum at Montgomery Community College in Troy, and Vickie Davis, who earned a Human Services Technology degree, also at MCC, were honored at the Workforce Development Board’s sixth annual awards banquet recently (Thursday, June 4) at Day’s Inn in Southern Pines. Participants and employers in Moore and Richmond counties where RCS administers similar programs also received awards.

           

Both Clark and Davis were nominated by the Montgomery County JobLink Career Center.

           

Clark, a resident of Rockingham, graduated May 13 with an A.A.S. degree in her field of adult study. At age 40, she has found employment with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department. The single mother of six children, Clark will work as a jailer/deputy at the county’s new jail, scheduled to open in the Fall. She has already worked a weekend shift at the old jail, celebrating, as it were, the end of a long, hard journey.

           

Davis lives in Star. She was laid off from her job as a hosiery mill supervisor in March of 2005 and enrolled in the Human Services Technology curriculum at MCC on the advice of the JobLink Career Center. She completed requirements for an A. A. S. degree and, after serving as an intern in a WIA program, she now works as a fulltime paraprofessional at RAPPS Group Home for adolescent girls ages 12-18.

           

Her job performance over the first six months at RAPPS prompted Owner/Operator Esther Fowler to ask JobLink: “Does the WIA staff (at the Career Center) have another Mrs. Davis?”

           

Established in six counties altogether, the Workforce Development Program is administered from the Asheboro offices of Regional Consolidated Services. Linda Parker is director of both the Pee Dee Region and Regional Partnership Local Area. The latter includes Alamance, Orange and Randolph counties. An awards banquet for the Partnership is scheduled for July 16 in Burlington.

           

Regional Consolidated Services is a private, non-profit human services agency. It maintains programs in 11 North Carolina counties and currently is observing the 30^th anniversary of its founding.