Danielle first came to the WIOA office in April 2021, after she had been laid off from her job in March. She learned of the WIOA program when she sought assistance with filing an unemployment claim. At that time, Danielle was a single mom who had no idea how she was going to support her children being recently unemployed.
Dennis is one of our “in-school” Youth Program participants. He is a part-time student attending Southwestern Illinois College who is majoring in Political Science. Before joining, Dennis had never heard about our WIOA program before until one day by chance at Lowe’s, our supervisor’s husband was around and happened to bring it up. Dennis’s mouth dropped at all the services and opportunities our program provides our youth and was highly interested from the beginning.
Laci came to Man-Tra-Con for assistance in July 2022. She had been laid-off from her job at the Hyatt Reservation Center in Marion, Illinois, since 2020. Laci wanted to return to school to become a nurse. She was seeking training assistance to enroll in the Associate Degree in Nursing program at John A. Logan College.
Tracy came into the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity office at Wabash Area Development, Inc. in June 2022. He was seeking assistance for the Radiography Program offered at Olney Central College.
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