Texarkana College and Texarkana USA Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to lead the community into becoming an ACT Work Ready Community (WRC) and help empower our region with data, processes and tools that drive economic growth. To help obtain WRC status, the Texarkana College Testing Center has become an assessment site for the ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). The assessments measure an individual’s working knowledge of applied mathematics, graphic literacy, and workplace documents. The community, in turn, can become a WRC by meeting testing quotas for its workforce and having businesses incorporate the certifications into their hiring processes.
Camille Powell, Program Manager for Workforce Development with the Texarkana USA Chamber of Commerce, said individual assessments help with the Chamber’s efforts of building a WRC for our region.
“The WRC model is a community-based framework for workforce development, education and economic development,” said Powell. “Counties are certified as “work ready” when specific goals have been met.
