Workforce
The Mississippi Manufacturers Association works diligently with state community colleges, universities, agencies and departments to provide you with the tools necessary to succeed in today’s workforce such as:
Manufacturing & Workforce Services
Education & Training
State Wide Community College Districts Map
Business and community colleges have found common cause in recent decades in the preparation of a highly skilled workforce to preserve our competitiveness and economic opportunity in response to rapid technological change and increasing global competition. Strong partnerships tend to develop around local and regional economic and workforce development needs and can take many different forms from joint-investment in facilities to industrial-sector partnerships. Businesses and community colleges come together in these partnerships to find solutions to jointly identify educational challenges and use combined resources to implement them. Workforce development centers provide assessment, training and placement services to individuals needing retraining, training and upgrading for small business and local industry. Each workforce development center is affiliated with a separate public community college district.
- Northwest Mississippi Community College
- Northeast Mississippi Community College
- Itawamba Community College
- Coahoma Community College
- Mississippi Delta Community College
- Holmes Community College
- East Central Community College
- East Mississippi Community College
- Meridian Community College
- Hinds Community College
- Copiah -Lincoln Community College
- Jones County Junior College
- Southwest Mississippi Community College
- Pearl River Community College
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
*Shaded counties support two districts.
- Quitman County supports Districts 1 and 4
- Tunica County supports Districts 1 and 4.
- Tallahatchie County supports Districts 1 and 4.
- Bolivar County supports Districts 4 and 5
- Lauderdale County supports Districts 8 and 9.
- Copiah County supports Districts 10 and 11.
Finding Your Community College Contact
Coahoma Community College
Mr. Steven Jossel
510 Sunbelt Drive
Clarksdale, MS 38614
(662) 621-4304
F: (662) 627-9171
sjossell@coahomacc.edu
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Ms. Stephenie Sullivan
P.O. Box 649
Wesson, MS 39191
(601) 643-8715
F: (601) 643-8277
Stephenie.Sullivan@colin.edu
East Central Community College
Dr. Lucretia Williams
P.O. Box 129
Decatur, MS 39327
(601) 635-6432
F: (601) 635-6430
lwilliams@eccc.edu
East MS Community College
Mr. Joe Cook
7003 South Frontage Road
Columbus, MS 39701
(662) 243-2681
F: (662) 243-1976
jcook@eastms.edu
Hinds Community College
Ms. Wendy J. Barnes
P.O. Box 1100
Raymond, MS 39154-1100
(601) 857-3534
F: (601) 857-3474
Wendy.Barnes@hindscc.edu
Holmes Community College
Dr. Mike Blakenship
McGowan Advanced Training Center
412 West Ridgeland Avenue
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(601) 605-3315
F: (601) 605-3408
mblankenship@holmescc.edu
Itawamba Community College
Dr. Joe Lowder
The Belden Center
3200 Adams Farm Road
Belden, MS 38826
(662) 407-1521
F: (662) 407-1520
jclowder@iccms.edu
Jones County Junior College
Ms. Jennifer Griffith
Ronald Whitehead Advanced Technology Center
900 South Court Street
Ellisville, MS 39437
(601) 477-4029
F: (601) 477-4166
jennifer.griffith@jcjc.edu
Meridian Community College
Ms. Lucy Lamberth
910 HWY 19 North
Meridian, MS 39307
(601) 484-8776
F: (601) 482-5803
Lmorgan1@meridiancc.edu
MS Delta Community College
Mr. Todd Donald
The Capps Center
P. O. Box 668
Moorhead, MS 38761
(662) 887-2876 - Ext. 19
F: (662) 887-9802
tdonald@msdelta.edu
MS Gulf Coast Community College
Mr. Brock Clark
Advanced Manufacturing & Tech. Center
10298 Express Drive
Gulfport, MS 39503
(228) 897-4387
F: (228) 897-4375
brock.clark@mgccc.edu
Northeast Ms Community College
Ms. Nadara Cole
101 Cunningham Boulevard
Booneville, MS 38829
(662) 720-7327
F: (662) 720-7464
nlcole@nemcc.edu
Need Training
Employers may request training for existing employees and/or newly hired employees from their local community colleges. Contact your community college workforce contact to begin the process.
The local workforce boards are responsible for establishing and maintaining a skilled workforce system that provides the highest quality services and a skilled workforce. These board rely on local labor market information to develop sector strategies that focus resources on high growth industries for their area, often involving skill training for local businesses. Contact you local workforce board for more information.
Three Rivers Planning and Development District
Mississippi Partnership Workforce Area
Bill Renick
Email
Website
Central Mississippi Planning and Development District