Food ServiceHotel & MotelMaterial ManagementAcademic Achievement Program

This entry-level program is designed to develop skills necessary for employment in the food service industry.

Food Service

This vocational program will prepare students for entry-level employment in a variety of hotel/motel service positions. 

Hotel & Motel Service

The Material Management program provides consumers with skills in receiving, storing, packaging, shipping, freight handling, and controlling of products and materials using computers and electronic devices.

Material Management
Text Box: The Academic and Lifeskills Program of Higher Achievement (ALPHA) will prepare students for entrance into and assistance through that community of higher education.

ALPHA Program
Retail MerchandisingWork Adjustment Program

The Retail Sales program offers six different job titles in which a consumer may develop skills and competencies that can be used on a job.

Retail Merchandising
Text Box: This program prepares individuals for job training. Improves job readiness and enhances interpersonal skills needed to become successfully employed.

Work Adjustment Program (WAP)
Small Engine Repair

This program combines academic knowledge with practical knowledge, with the emphasis on hands-on learning.  This program prepares students to safely operate industrial trucks in a veriety of industrial, factory, and warehousing opportunities.

Industrial Truck Operator Program
Life Skills Enhancement Program

The Life Skills Enhancement Program provides services for post acute survivors of traumatic brain injury and individuals with other disabilities that require intensive occupational therapy, speech therapy and physical therapy.

Life Skills Enhancement Program
External Diploma Program

The Perkins Center, with the cooperation of Paintsville Independent Schools, offers this program that provides adults, (25 years or older) an opportunity to earn a high school diploma.

For more information about this program:

E-mail: Andrew Jones or Linda Bell

External Diploma Program
Adult Education Services

GED preparation instruction is available for consumers in other Perkins Center programs and adults from the surrounding community who have scores of 6.0 or above.

For more information about this program:

E-mail: Teresa Wells

Adult Education Services
A Womans face

Esthetics refers to the entire field of the health and beauty of the skin.  Research indicates that the skin care industry is predicted to experience faster than average growth in the near future.

Esthetics