Youth Services
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) provides support for youth with barriers to employment. An eligible participant is age 16 through 24 that needs support in one or more of the following categories:
- Deficient in basic literacy skills
- School dropout
- Homeless, runaway, or foster child
- Pregnant or parenting
- Offender
- Individuals with a disability or cultural barrier to employment
Year-round support in the work experience component.
The New Mexico Workforce Connection Center (NMWCC) provides job placement and training to individuals, including all youth, in Union, Harding, Quay, Guadalupe, Curry, Roosevelt, DeBaca, Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero, and Lincoln Counties. The NMWCC provides access to the services of many agencies and programs in the same facility through interagency cooperation, communication, coordination, and support. One-Stop Centers are required under WIOA to coordinate youth activities, link youth to job markets and employers, and to provide information and service access to eligible youth.
NM Workforce Connection Offices:
Otero County
NM Workforce Connection
901 Alaska Ave.
Alamogordo, NM 88310
575-437-9210 – O
575-437-6312 – F
Eddy County
NM Workforce Connection
704 W. Main St.
Artesia, NM 88203
575-748-1303 – O
575-746-3808 – F
Eddy County
NM Workforce Connection
323 S. Halagueno
Carlsbad, NM 88220
575-887-1174 – O
575-885-4419 – F
Curry, DeBaca, Guadalupe,
Harding, Quay, Roosevelt,
Union, & Counties
NM Workforce Connection
111 N. Main
Clovis, NM 88101
575-762-4571 – O
575-769-0086 – F
Lea County
NM Workforce Connection
204 W. Park St.
Hobbs, NM 88240
575-393-5188 – O
575-397-6380 – F
Lincoln County
NM Workforce Connection
709 Mechem Dr.
Ruidoso, NM 88345
575-258-1730 – O
575-258-4781 – F
Chaves County
NM Workforce Connection
67 University Blvd.
Roswell, NM 88203
575-624-6040 – O
575-627-5822 – F
