Career Pathways
The Career Pathways at Pulaski Technical College is a statewide initiative designed to provide support services and direct financial assistance to parents who want to increase their education and access to improve employment. The program is a collaboration of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges, Arkansas Department of Workforce Services, Arkansas Department of Workforce Education and Career Opportunities, and Southern Good Faith Fund. The Career Pathways program of Pulaski Technical College will serve 650 students for the 2008-09 academic year.
What Benefits are available?
Career Pathways participants will have access to:
- Advising to assist with career and educational decisions
- Assistance finding jobs while in school and careers upon graduation
- Extra instruction for building successful academic and employment skills
- Tutoring
- Access to a computer lab for doing homework and improving computer skills
In addition, some parents may qualify for assistance with childcare and transportation. The student must be employed during the period of reimbursement for childcare or transportation. Tuition, books, and other direct educational expenses are available on a case by case determination.
How do I apply?
To be eligible, parents must meet certain income requirements and have full-time custody of at least one child under the age of twenty-one who is living at home. To apply, click here and mail or fax your application. You can also complete an application at our offices in the second trailer behind the Administration Building on the North Little Rock campus or Room 160 at the Little Rock-West location. The Career Pathways office phone number for North Little Rock is (501) 812-2725 and the Little Rock-West office phone number is (501) 683-5463.
No person is excluded from participation or denied benefits or programs and opportunities on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, handicap, religion, ancestry, or national origin.
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