{"id":376986,"date":"2022-10-04T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=376986"},"modified":"2022-10-04T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:06:17","slug":"wia-renews-mou-with-hawaii-job-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wia-renews-mou-with-hawaii-job-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"WIA renews MOU with Hawai\u2019i Job Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_376987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376987\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WIA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-376987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WIA-pix-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-376987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WIOA director Frances Torres receives the MOU from Hawai\u2019i Job Corps director Ellen May. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI Department of Labor\u2019s Workforce Investment Agency renewed its agreement with the Hawai\u2019i Job Corps during a site visit to the Waimanalo Center. The signing was witnessed by the CNMI DOL and Finance, who also attended the Workforce Convening with USDOL Region 6 and Waimanalo Center staff.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the CNMI commits to promote the mission of the Hawaii Job Corp Centers to provide academic, career, and technical education, and social development training to young men and women ages 18 to 24 years old to become responsible, productive, and employed community members; and perform certain services in the field of outreach, admissions, and career transition services for the Job Corps program.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawai\u2019i Job Corps is a free residential program with career training offerings in automotive technician, culinary arts, facilities maintenance, hotel and lodging, landscaping, office administration, painting, security and protective services, registered apprenticeship program in pharmacy technician, certified nurse assistance to include high school diploma or its equivalent. Programs are self-paced with opportunities in advance training at centers located in the mainland U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaborative partnership between the CNMI and Hawai\u2019i Job Corps expands the opportunities for our youths to advance in a career pathway and improve their employability,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>said Labor Secretary Vicky Benavente. She added, \u201cThis is a valued long-term relationship that continues to provide the CNMI\u2019s young citizens with additional options for their choice of a career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawai\u2019i Center director Ellen May shared, \u201cIt was an honor for our team to welcome the CNMI DOL Workforce representatives to our beautiful campus and reestablish our partnership. Collectively, we are not only providing exciting career pathways for young adults, for many students we are also offering hope and a new beginning for a bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youths interested in learning more about the great opportunities offered through the Hawai\u2019i Job Corps program may contact the CNMI DOL Workforce Investment Agency at tel. 670.664.1708<br \/>\nor email cnmiwioa@dol.gov.mp.<em> (PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Department of Labor\u2019s Workforce Investment Agency renewed its agreement with the Hawai\u2019i Job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":376987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1581,1461],"class_list":["post-376986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mou","tag-wia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}