Arkansas Code § 11-2-123 - Employment Training and Placement Programs for Ex-Offenders

(a) In order to help facilitate the restoration of an ex-offender's responsibility and self-sufficiency, the Department of Labor shall work in conjunction with other appropriate state agencies, the private sector, and labor organizations to promulgate rules for implementing placement and training programs for ex-offenders.

(b) Training and placement programs shall be intensive and focus on in-demand vocations and professions, including without limitation:

(1) Professional careers and vocations;

(2) Service careers and vocations;

(3) Information and computer technology;

(4) Medical technology; and

(5) Office administration.

(c) A training program created and administered under this section shall incorporate a "Certificate of Completion" to be awarded to any person who completes a training program under this section, which shall signify that the person is competent to enter the workforce as an employee satisfactorily trained in a particular vocation or profession or as an employee prepared for on-the-job training.

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