ARKANSAS COLLEGE AND CAREER COACHES
The College and Career Coach initiative supports and assists high school students in 21 of Arkansas’s most economically challenged counties. Their job duties include: • Provide early outreach to all students and their parents with information about the importance of post-secondary 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 post-secondary 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 Stephens & Breaden 870.574.4721
Ophelia Lindsey Career Coach Harmony Grove & Sparkman 870.574.4722
Neatrice Strickland Career Coach Camden Fairview 870.574.4723