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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2009

For more information please contact:
Gene Lussier
Board Chair, Florida MEP
954-565-0047

Florida MEP to Host Media Tour of Mobile Outreach Skills Training Unit
Unit Trains Out-of-Work Floridians and Places Them in Jobs

TALLAHASSEE, FL - The Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) will showcase its state-of-the-art Mobile Outreach Skills Training (M.O.S.T.) traveling training unit in Tallahassee on Tuesday, October 6.

The M.O.S.T. unit offers onsite job training and mentoring that typically results in participants securing a job interview at the end of the two-week training session. This statewide program consists of practical skills, theory and hands-on curriculum that utilize a process of both computer-based 3-D simulations and hands-on self-paced training modules.

Media is invited to join House Speaker Larry Cretul and Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff as they climb aboard and tour the M.O.S.T. unit on Tuesday, October 6 at the State Capitol Plaza from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. to observe demonstrations of the training equipment and lessons. Additional tours times are available to interested media.


Mobile Outreach Skills Training (M.O.S.T.) Unit Media Tour
Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
State Capitol Plaza, Capitol Courtyard
Tallahassee, Florida


Planned Attendees Include:
The Honorable Larry Cretul, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
The Honorable Ellyn Bogdanoff, Florida House of Representatives, District 91
Expected attendee list will be updated and distributed to media closer to event date



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