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EKCEP Begins New Media Campaign EKCEP is now airing a series of commercials to get the word out about our programs to help those who have been laid off retrain for new careers. Look for the commercials on WYMT-TV and other outlets. Information about the services EKCEP can offer laid-off workers is available here. A larger version of the video is available on this page.
Request For Bids Perry County JobSight Freestanding Sign Project
Request For Proposals Group-Sized Training Projects Application
Harold Hughes Bounces Back From Layoff With GED2Job [January 2009] "When he was laid off from his job at American Woodmark in Hazard, Harold Hughes found himself in the same position as many other workers who have lost jobs during the recent economic downturn: suddenly thrust into a very competitive job market that had changed since they last looked for work. Fortunately, a new initiative from the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program Inc. is helping hundreds of under-qualified eastern Kentuckians earn a GED and move on into a good job or into the postsecondary training ..."Click here to read more
Finish Up For Free Helps Local Mom Complete College Dream [January 2009] "Some of the people who are getting chance to finish college because of a new initiative from the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) are returning to school after only a brief break. Others, like Joelle Amburgey, are completing a college dream that was delayed quite a bit longer. Joelle, 43, of Mallie, finished the coursework needed to complete an associate’s degree ..."Click here to read more
James Warren Cuts a New Career Path with WIA Help [January 2009] "Just a little more than a year after being laid off from his factory job, James Stacey Warren has a new career and a possibility of being his own boss, thanks to an assist from Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training. James says he and some of his coworkers at TruSeal in Barbourville knew well in advance that layoffs were coming that would probably take their jobs. “We knew it was inevitable ..."Click here to read more
Dozens Learn About Free Training at Orientation [January 2009] "More than 40 people came to the Morehead Regional Enterprise Center in West Liberty Dec. 15 to learn about opportunities to improve their earning power with three free training courses that will be provided through Maysville Community and Technical College (MCTC). The training courses will teach people to be welders, certified nurse assistants, or emergency medical technicians, beginning this month. Gateway Community Action is partnering with MCTC to provide the training, which is made possible by funding from the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. ..."Click here to read more
Learn How to Start Your Own Small Business [December 2009] "A new training initiative is giving those who have lost jobs during the current economic downturn a chance to put their skills to work by starting their own businesses. “Business Your Way” provides the training, guidance, and mentoring that make it possible for those who have the skill and desire to start their own business to do so. The free ..."Click here to read more
Jeff Tyree Turns Setback Into Opportunity With Trade Act [December 2009] "When Mid-South Electronics closed in 2000, it was a major blow to Jackson and Clay Counties. But many local residents were determined to turn tragedy into triumph and responded to the layoffs by training for new careers. For Jeff Tyree the slamming doors of Mid-South sounded like opportunity knocking ..."Click here to read more
Jessica Simmons Returns to College Through Finish Up For Free [December 2009] "A new Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) initiative is helping people across eastern Kentucky whose college dreams have been deferred get a second chance at completing their educations. EKCEP’s Finish Up For Free initiative — funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – is paying tuition and other costs for people who need less than 18 credit hours to finish an associate’s degree. One of these people is Harlan native Jessica Simmons..."Click here to read more
Jared Smith Returns to College Through Finish Up For Free [December 2009] "A new Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) initiative is helping people across eastern Kentucky whose college dreams have been deferred for financial reasons get a second chance at completing their educations. EKCEP’s Finish Up For Free initiative — funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – is paying the tuition of people who need less than 18 credit hours to finish an associate’s degree. One of these people is Jared Smith of Manchester ..."Click here to read more
Ground Broken on Learn While You Build Construction Project [November 2009] "Local officials broke ground Friday, Oct. 30, for a Bell County construction project that represents a new local approach to vocational training. Fifteen participants will work full time for six months learning construction techniques and putting those skills to work to build an energy-efficient single-family house in the Vista Venado subdivision in Middlesboro. The project is ..."Click here to read more
Let’s Go 2 Work Helps Sierra Neal Find Independence [September 2009] "For some of the 3,000 eastern Kentucky young people who got summer jobs this year through Let’s Go 2 Work, the initiative was a way to learn new job skills and make some money before going back to school. For others, like 19-year-old Sierra Neal of Cumberland, it was a chance for a permanent job ..."Click here to read more
Let’s Go 2 Work Helps Chase Scolf Rev Up His Career [September 2009] "At age 17, Chase Scolf could take a motorcycle apart and put it back together, but he could not seem to get a handle on high school. The work in the classroom did not come as easy as the work in the garage, where Chase had been ..."Click here to read more
WIA Helps Carmical and her Patients Breathe Easier [September 2009] "When Cathy Carmical was a girl, it was obvious that something was seriously wrong with her father’s lungs. 'He would sit at the window with the window open and just breathe the cold air, and that seemed to help,' she said. 'He suffered a lot ..." Click here to read more
Chaffin Triumphs Over Tragedy to Become a Nurse [August 2009] "Marsha Chaffin’s nursing school diploma is much more than a piece of paper noting academic achievement. It is a symbol of survival and perseverance in the face of family tragedy. It is ..." Click here to read more
Let's Go 2 Work Youth 'Clean Up' at Carter Caves [July 2009] "Summer is the busy season at Carter Caves State Resort Park. Taking care of the guests that pour in to enjoy the resort is a full-time endeavor, and some projects get put on the back burner. This summer, however, posts and structures have a fresh clean coat of color, weeds are pulled ..." Click here to read more
Let's Go 2 Work Youth Get Ahead of the Game at Troll and Toad [July 2009] "A temporary summer job that Donald Brock got through the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program Inc.’s (EKCEP) Let’s Go 2 Work initiative has turned into a permanent job doing something he loves. Let’s Go 2 Work helped 22-year-old Donald get a six-week summer job ..." Click here to read more
Let's Go 2 Work Sparks Creativity in John Poe [July 2009] "Inspiration comes in all colors. In John Poe’s case, it’s electric green. John, 18, of Tyner, KY, is one of eight young people employed this summer at Flat Lick Falls in Jackson County through the “Let’s Go 2 Work” initiative. And he seems to have found his niche. John’s work duties ..." Click here to read more
Rebecca Bodkin Gets a Taste of Success Through Let's Go 2 Work [July 2009] "Rebecca Bodkin has found her personal recipe for success: Job Corps training, mixed with a dash of Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program’s (EKCEP) Let’s Go 2 Work initiative. Rebecca, 17, got to put her Job Corps Culinary Arts training into practice and gain ..." Click here to read more
Let's Go 2 Work Youth Makeover Downtown Prestonsburg [July 2009] "The Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program’s (EKCEP) “Let’s Go 2 Work” summer jobs initiative has taken off and one city is getting very visible results. Eight Let’s Go 2 Work participants are currently working to beautify downtown Prestonsburg by ..." Click here to read more
Let's Go 2 Work Youth Bond With Local Veterans [July 2009] "The summer jobs provided by the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program’s Let’s Go 2 Work initiative offer a variety of work tasks to 16 to 24-year-olds. For the local participants working at the Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center in Hazard, the primary task is brightening the days of the resident veterans. Let’s Go 2 Work youth ..." Click here to read more
Called to Help Others, Susan Bruns Calls on WIA [July 2009] "Susan Bruns’ life has led her into lots of places and situations. The Army took Susan away from her native Maryland to Texas, Germany, Kentucky and Hawaii. A calling to go into missionary work led her and her husband to numerous mission trips to Haiti and to Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in Pineville, where they studied missions and evangelism. And a desire to become a nurse led her to..." Click here to read more
[June 2009] "The Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) is launching a six-month survey of eastern Kentucky employers that will identify the skills that the region’s workers will need to succeed in the future. The Workforce Opportunity Project survey results ..." Click here to read more
WIA Provides Robbins a Prescription for Success [June 2009] "Nickie Robbins said she really did not think about her future for most of her first 19 years. At 19 she found herself a high school dropout, unemployed, pregnant and unable to find a job in the struggling economy of Jackson County. And then she had Taylor. After the birth of her ..." Click here to read more
[May 2009] "A group of 21 employees of Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) and its partners entered a new era in their professional careers recently as they obtained Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) credentials at a ceremony in ..." Click here to read more.
[May 2009] "Hickory E. Grace Jr., of Middlesboro, long-time member and vice chair of the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP) Board of Directors since 2001, died May 6. He was 82. Mr. Grace brought decades of professional experience to the position..." Click here to read more.
EKCEP Mourns the Loss of WIB Member Finley Begley [July 2008] "Finley F. Begley, a longtime member of the EKCEP Workforce Investment Board (WIB), died Wednesday, July 9, at the Hazard ARH Hospital. He was 78 ... " Click here to read more.
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