TAHLEQUAH – Career Services is expanding its offices around the Cherokee Nation jurisdiction and adding programs, officials said in a June 14 Education Ccommittee meeting.
Executive Ddirector Diane Kelley said Career Services is keep expanding his offices around the reservation, with the opening of the last office in Pryor in July.
“It really paid off for us because we were able to get into the doors of a lot of companies there., and as a result of this we ‘I got a lot of jobs, â€Kelley said. “Not just in Mayes County, but also in Delaware, Cherokee, all the surrounding counties because people drive there to the Mid-America Industrial Park for most of the jobs.. “
She said the ministry is also Upgradeis lying train for his lineman, fiber technician programcian program, building trade, commercial driver’s license (CDL) trucking, Oprofessional Ssecurity and Hhealth Aadministration (OSHA) training and a new program called industrial trades.
“We work at the western end of Cherokee County,†Kelley said. “We are located there behind CCO(VScommunity & Cultural Oscope). Our lineman and fiber program exists. We hope that a cement slab will eventually be poured there where our CDL truck can use it. Right now we are using the Woodmark parking lot and we want it in that area because the classroom training is done there in the trailer.
Industrial trades program, which was underway, will have interns working with cement to build products such as coffin vaults, storm shelters and septic tanks.
Some vsthe advisers asked if the program is something that could be built to provide citizens who need cement slabs for burial sites, storm shelters for homes and schools, and septic tanks.
“You know it was a vision that started, and also meat processing, and at one point this is where our business is atbusinesses need to be involved, â€Kelley said. “Therefore they or they can actually go out and market it and make it a viable business. But at the same time, we can provide training to our Cherokee staff so that we can expand these opportunities throughout the Cherokee reservation. “
With plans to have new child care centers in Pryor and Sallisaw, Kelley said Career Services hopes to work with Rogers State University and Carl Albert State College to have participants certified in child care to work at the two new sites. once completed.
Other trainings in the planning phase are DUI training and paramedical training.
Career guidance services have also helped set up a call center in June near the Male Seminaryy Recreation center to help the Raegisration Department when citizens started flooding the WW Keeler Tribal Complex to update their CN citizenship register or apply for citizenship for COVID-19 relief assistance.
The telephone number for the call center is 918-453-5058.
In other news, CN Education Executive DDirector Corey Bunch mentionned Sequoyah Schools will have football in the fall.
“Football is a full go,” he mentionned. “Just bewareng our eye on security things, and if we can get as a many pupils as we can vaccinate it will help our cause enormously. We hire our needed staff for this. If you haven’t been to our campus rWe recently updated our fieldto house. We spent, I think, $ 100,000 in tLast year, the update of the equipment of our field. “
Group also discussed whether the school required the COVID-19 vaccine for students to attend Sequoyah.
“You don’t have to be a student at our school to get vaccinated, but insofar as extracurricular activities, whether it’s athletics or other extracurricular activities, we’re going to demand it, â€Bunch said. “We really want to get bgo back to school every day in person and in our activities that this was the best step forward not only to ensure the safety of our students but also of our staff and the parents of our students. “
Starting August 1, CN Health Services will have a weekly vaccination site at Sequoya Hhigh Sschool for students.
The next Education Cthe committee meeting is tentatively scheduled for 3 p.m. on July 12.