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Posted On: 06/09/2004

Program trains women for MRO

and The Greensboro Women's Resource Center have developed a strategic alliance to advance vocational options for women in non-traditional career paths. The Greensboro Women's Resource Center's New Choices program is a job-readiness program specific to displaced homemakers who are reentering the paid workforce.

The Greensboro, N.C.-based MPACT Learning Center has a 20-year history of providing technical skills to maintenance personnel. More than 20,000 adult learners have studied hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical, electronics, systematic troubleshooting and other curricula. With the pending retirement of the current workforce, the introduction of automation and the aging of existing infrastructure, job opportunities will be plentiful for women graduating from the program in the coming years.

A displaced homemaker is a woman who has been out of the paying workforce for at least five years and now needs to return to work to support herself and her family. The WRC recognizes that non-traditional employment opportunities can provide higher-paying wages than the typical single head-of-household female would be eligible to learn were she to return to the workforce after an extended absence with no training.

For more information about this program, call Joel Leonard at (336) 379-1444 ext. 102.