New Centerstone center to offer training for health care jobs:Centerstone, the state’s largest provider of community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment services, has launched a new center to train people for jobs in health care.

Starting July 1, the Centerstone Career Resource Center will operate from offices in Tullahoma and Columbia, Tenn. The center is funded with a $5 million federal stimulus grant.

The center is expected to create nearly 300 new jobs through offering health care education opportunities, job training, employment placement assistance and support services to 600 people in five Middle Tennessee counties: Bedford, Coffee, Lawrence, Marshall and Maury.

Centerstone is partnering with the local schools and hospitals and government entities such as the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development to offer the training and to create jobs. The center also will offer participants assistance such as help with child-care and interview preparation training.

The center will begin reviewing potential participants on June 15. More information about the center is available at www.centerstone.org/careerresourcecenter or 1-888-519-5190.