Delta Regional Authority To Invest $200,000 In Arkansas
by November 25, 2013 12:31 pm 105 views
The Delta Regional Authority says it will make a major investment in resources targeting Arkansas veterans interested in starting their own small businesses.
DRA chairman Chris Masingill said his group will invest $200,000 to assist with training and employment opportunities in multiple Delta communities. The funding will come in two phases.
The 42 counties of the Arkansas Delta are home to more than 120,000 Veterans, according to the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs.
This investment will target more than 250 of these Delta Veterans with three different approaches:
- Connecting veterans with short-term training that leads to employment in high-demand occupations;
- Providing veterans with skills to develop small businesses through access to entrepreneurial training curriculum developed through Operation JumpStart; and
- Linking veterans to careers as law enforcement officers.
“Veterans are a unique group of highly-skilled, disciplined individuals. Empowering and employing our region’s veterans will support our local economies, potentially grow our small business and entrepreneurial communities, and ensure to public safety,” Masingill said. “Our partnership with ARVets does just that—creating jobs for those who have served our country and utilizing the skills Veterans have to build and protect our region’s communities.”