Partner Contact
List
1. ABLE– Adult Basic
and Literacy Education
Al Carter and Lathe Moore
42 E. Main Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 380-3805
**Offers comprehensive adult education services
to any adult over 18 years of age to:
1) obtain reading, writing, and arithmetic
skills needed to get a job,
2) meet entrance requirements for vocational
training courses,
3) to study in preparation for a GED,
4) to learn to help children with their
homework,
5) to become wiser consumers and better
citizens. Telephone to schedule an appointment
for information or enrollment.
2.
BVR– Ohio Rehabilitation Services
Commission
George Platournaris and Rebecca Bates
86 Columbus Road
Athens, Ohio 45701
(740) 592-4411 / (800) 248-4378
**Offers counseling, guidance, diagnostic
assessments, vocational training, therapy,
medical help, job placement, and tools to
persons of employable age with functional
limitations or physical, mental, or emotional
disabilities. A BVR representative will
be onsite at the Hocking County Job Services
Center on a weekly basis. The BVR representative
will schedule appointments from referrals
made by center staff.
3.
Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
Jeff Sheets
1225 W. Hunter Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 385-5607 / (800) OHIO-B.C. (Toll-free
Information)
**Offers services to those injured on the
job by processing workers’ compensation
applications, assists with receiving payments/wages
and coverage of medical bills, rehabilitation
services, and assists
employers with compensation services. Most
claims for workers’ compensation are
filed with medical providers. If a visitor
to the center requests an application, the
Hocking County Job Services Center representative
will telephone the Bureau of Workers’
Compensation office and allow the visitor
to speak with a representative at that time.
4. COVA (Center of Vocational
Alternatives)
Ron Swain, BS Ed.
3370 N. High St.
Columbus, Ohio 43214
E-Mail: ronswain@earthlink.net
(614) 294-7117 Voice/TTY
(614 294-7443 Fax
**Offers comprehensive consulting to individuals
with mental, physical and developmental
disabilities receiving SSDI and or SSI to
better understand work incentives and options
available to them.
5.
Employment Services
Hocking County Job Services Center
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
Cindy Bobbitt
389 W. Front Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 380-1545 / (866) 882-9500 / (740)
380-3675 FAX
**Offers services in all phases of job placement:
registration, referral, job development,
processing job orders, and matches. Also
relates information pertaining to unemployment
compensation to customers and employers.
A Customer Service Representative will be
available daily at the Hocking County Job
Services Center to see job seekers and employers
by appointment or on a walk-in basis.
6. ETC– The Employment
Training Center
Cindy Coffman and Ella Fouch
375 Richland Avenue, PO BOX 132
Athens, OH 45701
106 Starrett St., Suite 211
Lancaster, OH 43130
(740) 689-2755
(740) 689-2757 Fax
Web-site: www.integratedservice.org/etc
**Offers job seeking skills training, job
placement and job coaching services. The
primary customer base for this organization
is obtained through referrals made by the
Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
(BVR/BSVI). A staff person will be on-site
at Hocking County Job Services Center on
an as needed basis.
7.
Experience Works
Mary Anderson and Mary Lang
25 E. South Street, PO Box 147
Jackson, Ohio 45640
(740) 286-6242
**Offers employment and job training, work
experience, educational opportunities, job
search skills, and job retention services
for job seekers who are 55 years of age
and older who are income-eligible for the
program. Call Mary Anderson to schedule
an appointment for program information or
enrollment.
8.
Hocking College
Dr. Josh Lancaster
3301 Hocking Parkway
Nelsonville, Ohio 45764
(740) 753-3591
**Offers specific skills and technical training
to prepare students for jobs in business,
industry, and the service industry through
certificate and associate degree programs.
Both day and evening classes are available.
Contact the Hocking County Job Services
Center to refer students to certificate
and technical programs at Hocking College.
9. Hocking County Department
of Job and Family Services
Robert Smith, Director and Theresa Wahl
389 W. Front Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 385-5663 / (800) 599-6935 / (740)
385-1911 FAX
**Offers OWF (cash assistance), Prevention,
Retention & Contingency assistance,
Ohio Direction Card (Food Stamp Program),
medical disability insurance, childcare
and jobs assistance, and
Healthy Start medical program for children
for those families who are financially eligible.
Initial OWF applications will be taken onsite
at the Hocking County Job Services Center,
and visitors will be given an appointment
for full application within 5 working days.
PRC and JOBS services will also be available
on a daily basis at the Hocking County Job
Services Center.
10. Hocking County Veterans
Service Commission
Tim Woodgeard
Hocking County Courthouse
1 E. Main Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 385-7507
**Provides emergency financial assistance
based on need, advocacy assistance in securing
all entitlement benefits, coordinates VA
hospital care and transportation for honorably
discharged veterans and their dependents.
Call Tim Woodgeard to schedule an appointment.
Walk-ins at the courthouse are also permitted.
11.
Hocking Metropolitan Housing
Craig Garrelts
50 S. High Street
Logan, Ohio 43138
(740) 385-3883
**Section 8 housing, HUD housing, Senior
housing facility, Metropolitan housing and
rehabilitation of homes for low-income families.
To refer individuals to these programs the
visitor will fill out an application at
the Hocking County Job Services Center or
visit the Metropolitan Housing office on
a walk-in basis. Metropolitan Housing will
contact the applicant when housing becomes
available
   
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