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Program helps teens and young adults
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Champaign County teens and young adults have a local resource for helping them overcome barriers to starting careers and becoming self-sufficient.
The statewide Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program (CCMEP), offered locally by OhioMeansJobs Champaign County (OMJCC), helps clients, ages 14-24, get the education, training and additional support they need to enter the workforce and break free of the poverty cycle, explains Beth McFann, CCMEP case manager and career coach at OMJCC, which is located in Suite J100 of the Champaign County Community Center, 1512 U.S. 68, Urbana.
OMJCC is part of the Champaign County Department of Job and Family Services (CCDJFS).
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Deb Knight, assistant director of the Harrison County Department of Job and Family Services, and Richard Gualtiere, deputy director of the Jefferson County Community Action Council, speak with Harrison County commissioners about the Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program, a youth program that employs youth and young adults ages 16-24. Also pictured, from left, are Commissioners Dale Norris and Paul Coffland.
CADIZ Local organizations are hoping for more participants to join a year-round and summer youth employment program in Harrison County.
The Harrison County Department of Job and Family Services and the Jefferson County Community Action Council are working to add some teens and young adults to the Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program, which helps provide job training and experience to residents between the ages of 16 and 24. On Wednesday, DJFS Assistant Director Deb Knight and CAC Deputy Director Richard Gualt