Workforce representatives attend the college staff meetings to be fully informed on issues of mutual concern. A Job Fair is scheduled in April. This month mini classes in proper dress, deportment, resume writing and interviewing skills are offered to all who are interested in this type of advance preparation. Neighbors Helping Neighbors Civic groups were represented by a member of the Rotary Club. He noted that his particular group buys the personal tools that are needed to begin work in some occupations, such as carpentry and auto mechanics.
Many service clubs meet weekly, and all are searching for speakers.
This is a good way to get a message out for specific types of help. Pathfinders is a state-sponsored program that teams churches and civic groups with a particular welfare family, normally for about a year. A core team actually interacts with the family, drawing on the resources of the whole group. Deacon Burleson from St. Mary's Catholic Church noted that churches are returning to the support for the poor that many abandoned as government programs proliferated. This is the basic social mission of the Christian tradition.