Choctaw
Department of Employment & Training
The Choctaw Employment and Training Program provides necessary
services to meet the needs of Native Americans preparing to enter,
reenter or retain unsubsidized employment.
The department coordinates with local and state employment agencies
including local community colleges and private training institutions
recruiting Native Americans in all 82 counties of Mississippi as
a prime sponsor under the JTPA program and Native American works
program and the Welfare-to-Work program.
Service Providers
- Workforce Investment Act (Adult Service)
- Workforce Investment Act (Youth Service)
- Native Employment Works
- Welfare-to-Work
- Tribal Revenue Support Services
The purpose of Employment and Training is to support employment
and training activites for American Indians in order:
(A) to develop more fully the academic, occupational, and literacy
skills of the individuals
(B) to make the individual more competitive in the workforce;
and
(C) to promote the economic and social development of Indian communities
in accordance with the goals and values of the communities.
Person must be Native American and either unemployed, or underemployed,
or low income.
Workforce Investment Act (Adult Services)
The Workforce Investment Act Officially replaced the Job Training
Partnership Act on July 1, 2000.
The purpose of the Act is to provide Workforce Investment activities
that increase the employment retention and earnings of participants
and increase occupational skill attainment.
Workforce Investment Act (Supplemental Youth Services)
Supplemental Services Program provide a wide variety of services
suitable to in-school and out-of-school youth, including summer
employment, educational enrichment and leadership development.
Persons must be Native American between 14-21 and low income.
Native Employment Works
The Native Employment Works Program's purpose is to provide services
that prepare TANF recipients to be self-reliant, self-sufficient
and to become employment ready.
Native Employment Works Program linkage system allow services
to be provided to customers certifying as unemployed, enderemployed
or economically disadvantaged.
Welfare-to-Work
The purpose fo the Welfare-to-Work program:
(A) Facilitate the placement of hard-to-employ welfare recipients
and certain non-custodial parents into transitional employment opportunities
which will lead to lasting unsubsidized employment and self-sufficiency;
(B) To provide a variety of activities grounded in TANF's "Work
First" philosophy, to prepare individuals for, and to place them
in lasting unsubsidized employment;
(C) To provide for a variety of post-employment and job retention
services which will assist the hard-to-employ welfare recipients
and certain non-custodial parents to secure lasting unsubsidized
employment.
Tribal Revenue Support Service
Supportive services are provided to participants to enable them
to succeed in the program or make the transition from unemployed
to employed without interruptions.
Services Include
- Direct Employment Assistance
- Pre-employment Training
- Classroom Training
- Field Placement
- Job Counseling
- Personal Counseling
- Support Service Assistance
- Special Referrals to Other Institutions for Applicants Needing
Special Services
- Follow Up Services
Contact Information
- (601) 650-7386
- Tribal Annex Building II East
P.O. Box 6010 Choctaw Branch
Philadelphia, MS 39350
- Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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