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BEMIDJI—Beltrami County's new employment training program won't launch until Jan. 1, but for Workforce Impact's director, the operation is already underway.
Brian Ophus, a lifelong resident of Bemidji and BSU graduate, is helming Workforce Impact, the program set to replace the county's contracted services with Rural Minnesota Concentrated Program, Inc., or CEP. Since the mid-1990s, when welfare reform was passed nationally, the county had contracted services through CEP.
However, in 2016, the Beltrami County Health and Human Services Department were authorized to end the contracted services and create its own workforce program to meet the needs of a changing regional economy.
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