ASUMH to offer free summer courses

Arkansas State University-Mountain Home is offering several free classes through their Pipeline to Advanced Manufacturing program. This program was established to foster a successful economic climate in Arkansas by creating a viable pipeline of individuals at various stages in becoming qualified job applicants. The ASUMH Pipeline to Advanced Manufacturing program is designed to help participants set and reach goals for self-sufficiency through education and life skills.Getting Ahead in a Just-Getting-By World is a course offered through this program and is designed to help participants investigate how to move from just getting by to getting ahead in life. Participants will regularly meet to discuss how poverty and instability affects the community and themselves on an individual level. They will also discuss problem solving issues affecting the community and themselves, learn about the hidden rules of economic class, to create a future story for themselves, and to identify resources, both human and financial. Students will earn $10 per session, and a completion bonus on the last day of class, up to $150 maximum.

Locations and times for Getting Ahead in a Just-Getting-By World include Monday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 until 8 beginning June 5th at the Broadway Church of Christ in Yellville, Wednesday afternoons from 2 until 4:30 beginning June 7th at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Mountain Home, and Monday and Thursday afternoons from 2 until 4:30 beginning June 5th at the Salvation Army in Mountain Home.

Cooking Matters is another course offered through the program. Cooking Matters teaches participants about healthy meal preparation and sensible shopping on a limited budget. This class is a six session course offering hands on participation. Each session is two hours long, and participants follow a recipe to prepare a healthy meal during the class. Afterwards, participants are given the same ingredients used in class to make the same dish at home with their families.

Cooking Matters will take place Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Mountain Home. The course starts June 7th.

To learn more about the Pipeline to Advanced Manufacturing program at ASUMH, contact Kim Lovelace at (870)508-6261 or at klovelace@asumh.edu.

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