Hand in Hand: CTE and Workforce Development Make a Difference

Submitted by Kayla Kivett

Vicksburg Warren School District students are learning how to find their own success in today’s ever evolving world.

Jaylenn Coleman, a culinary arts completer at the Vicksburg Warren Career and Technical Center (VWCTC), is an example of that. Coleman, with the assistance of Warren Central High School Career Coach Alexandria Burrell, secured an internship with Keller Williams real estate agency.

Under the tutelage of Lucy DeRossette, Coleman will learn the ins and outs of the real estate world.

The internship opportunity is provided through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), a program designed to help individuals gain work experience and assist employers with needed services that can be performed by the internship program’s participants. Coleman will work 20 hours per week at the agency and receive additional high school credit as an enrollee in VWCTC’s work-based learning program.

Workforce and Career & Technical Education coming together to make an impact, in the life of our students as well as our community, is a momentous occasion.