What is NEON?

It is a Department of Labor Community Based Job Training Grant project awarded to the Mississippi Corridor Consortium colleges which consists of Itawamba Community College, East Mississippi Community College, and Northeast Mississippi Community College.  NEON is geared to assist students with career options, employment opportunities and alternate pathways for achieving career goals.

The main purposes of the grant:

  • To increase the supply of CNAs, LPNs and RNs
  • To increase the number of MSN prepared nursing faculty members
  • To increase available opportunities for current nursing students or students who have previously earned nursing credit


(nursing students hosting Health Fair at ICC)

How will the grant accomplish these goals?

  • Assist students into alternate paths of study in order to achieve success in a nursing career
  • Make CNA opportunities available to current students in nursing programs
  • Assist currently enrolled students with both individual and group tutoring needs, test-taking tips, etc.
  • Assist students around barriers which impede student progress; i.e.: financial, life demands, student preparation, attrition/retention
  • Personal support, individualized education plans, career development from the NEON Navigator and Competency coach
  • Scholarship opportunities for LPNs to become RNs and BSN RNs to become MSN prepared nursing faculty

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News and Announcements

  • Nurse Mentorship Academy - NEON at EMCC will celebrate its first group of high school seniors completing the Nurse Mentorship Academy.

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

 

   
 
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Participating Colleges/Contacts

Key Partners

  • Mississippi Partnership Local Workforce Investment Area

  • State Workforce Investment Board

  • The Alliance

  • Tippah County Hospital

  • Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County

  • Noxubee General Hospital

  • Landmark Nursing and Rehab Center

  • Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville

  • North Ms Medical Center

  • Baptist Hospital- Golden Triangle

  • Magnolia Regional Health Center

  • Oktibbeha County Hospital

  • The Windsor Place Nursing & Rehab Center

  • Trinity Healthcare Center

  • Northeast Regional Education Services Agency

  • Mississippi State University - Research & Curriculum Unit

  • State Board of Community /Junior Colleges

  • Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning

  • Mississippi Office of Nursing Workforce

  • Mississippi Hospital Association

  • Community Development Foundation
 

 

This project is fully funded by a grant awarded under the Community Based Job Training Grants, as implemented by U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration.  The NEON project does not discriminate on the basis of sex, marital status, race, age, creed, national origin or handicap.

This product was funded by a grant awarded under the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative, as implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration. The information contained in this product was created by a grantee organization and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor. All references to non-governmental companies or organizations, their services, products, or resources are offered for informational purposes and should not be construed as an endorsement by the Department of Labor. This product is copyrighted by the institution that created it and is intended for individual organizational, non-commercial use only.



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