ARKANSAS COLLEGE AND CAREER COACHES
The Arkansas College & Career Coaches Initiative For the next three years, the pilot College and Career Coach program will support and assist high school students in 21 of Arkansas’s most economically challenged counties. Their job duties will include: • Provide early outreach to all students and their parents with information about the importance of postsecondary education. • Facilitate the development of individual career plans and portfolios. • Assist students with enrolling in education or training programs. • Provide information about career options, career pathways and educational requirements. • Provide opportunities for job shadowing, mentoring, internships and other career awareness activities. • Provide or connect low-income students to support services that will ease the transition to postsecondary education. • Connect students to academic enrichment activities such as study groups, tutoring and workshops on effective study skills. • Connect high school students to early college programs, the Smart Core curriculum, Advanced Placement classes, and academic and career and technical education (CTE) programs and concurrent-credit enrollment.
Temeke Butler Career Coach 870.574.4721
Ophelia Lindsey Career Coach 870.574.4722
Neatrice Strickland Career Coach 870.574.4723