Award-Winning City of Long Beach Youth-Driven Career Center Program

The National League of Cities (NLC) recently recognized the City of Long Beach’s Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network with a Gold Award for Municipal Excellence. Long Beach earned the award for Creating a Youth-Driven Career Center program. The Creating a Youth-Driven Career Center program is a reinvention of the Network’s youth service strategies, which focuses on providing opportunities to engage youth in the design and creation of physical spaces, outreach messages, collateral materials, actual products, key policy-making, and critical community connections. Related Resource: Finance Project’s Clearinghouse for on Expanding and Sustaining Youth Programs and Policieshttp://www.servicelearning.org/etrcncs-link/?popup_id=1685

Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership Mobile Outreach Skills Training Program

The Florida Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) operates an innovative accelerated job creation and job training program called Mobile Outreach Skills Training, or MOST. The MOST program is a two-week, intensive job training and placement program that “fast-tracks” Florida’s most-in-need job seekers into skilled, entry-level positions in the aerospace, biotechnology, electronics, plastics, pharmaceuticals, precision metal, construction, energy efficiency/conservation, and renewable energy manufacturing sectors. Successful trainees are awarded a Lean to Green Institute Sustainable Manufacturing Certificate, helping them become an integral part of their employers’ green initiatives.

Iowa Leverages Social Networking Media to Launch Career Hub

The Iowa Coalition for Innovation and Growth has launched the Iowa Career Hub on the Facebook social networking platform. The Iowa Career Hub is designed to raise awareness about career pathways and related academic opportunities among Iowans of all ages. Through the Career Hub, Iowans can access organizations in both the public and private sectors to learn more about career opportunities and planning.

Workforce Solutions 2009 Update

Since 2008, The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has disseminated 541 solutions through the Workforce3One innovative solutions project developed under the Community-Based Job Training Grants and High Growth Job Training Initiative. This flyer provides information on the 2009 Updates to these solutions.

Workforce³ One February 2009 Newsletter

Access Points Toolkit

This Toolkit provides guidance for any local One-Stop Career Center or Workforce Investment Board that wants to create effective SHARE Network Access Points, from planning and outreach to implementing and sustaining the Access Points.

Workforce³ One November 2008 Newsletter

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Regionalism takes root in Mid-Michigan*

Before WIRED, residents of Mid-Michigan would have never claimed to live in a single region. There is no large metro area and no single media outlet that covers the entire region. WIRED Mid-Michigan faced the daunting task of creating a regional identity from scratch and has devised innovative marketing and communications strategies to accomplish this. It appears that the aggressive and evocative communication of information to and among regional stakeholders is catalyzing self-reinforcing regional awareness in Mid-Michigan.

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Nusing Education Capacity Summit

Nursing education capacity is a critical issue at the forefront of the growing need for qualified trained nurses. On both the regional and state levels, key stakeholders are collaborating to leverage resources and develop creative strategies to increase nursing education capacity. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Center to Champion Nursing in America; and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration are hosting a Nursing Education Capacity Summit that will engage state teams in a solutions-based discussion, to foster action, identify best practices, and develop strategies to increase the number of nurses we can train.

Oregon Statewide Pathways Initiative

Oregon defines a career pathway as a series of articulated educational and training programs and services that enables students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in a growing industry or occupational sector. Oregon has used career pathways for years as a way to strategically organize resources and services. This article describes Oregon’s career pathways model, partners, services, and funding mix and links to 29 occupational roadmaps. To access a career pathways "how to" guide go to: http://www.workforce3one.org/view/3019/info

Workforce³ One November 2007

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Who Will Care? The Case for Doubling of RNs Educated in Maryland

This report by the Maryland Hospital Association describes the nursing shortage in Maryland and describes its plan, supported by the health industry and public partners to increase investment and in order to double nursing enrollments. Good example of a statewide health industry coalition. To learn how Maricopa county Arizona addressed a nursing shortage go to http://www.workforce3one.org/view/3409/info For a guidebook on using career lattices as a method to respond to a worker shortage go to http://www.workforce3one.org/view/1290/info

Catalogue of Workforce Information Sources: Decision Making Assistance for Regional Economic Development

The Catalogue of Workforce Information Sources, developed by the Employment and Training Administration in 2003 as an environmental scan, has been updated annually and the 2007 update is now available. It represents ETA's effort to identify, capture, and organize the dynamic and expanding body of workforce and labor market information continuously generated by public and private sources. The intent of this Catalogue is to better inform various information consumer groups including workforce, talent, and regional economic development specialists, education and training planners, and public policy makers about the large quantity of quality workforce and labor market information available to them. The Catalogue is not intended to be a comprehensive encyclopedia or exhaustive inventory of all that is being produced at the federal, state, and local levels. The Catalogue is organized into three sections. The first section examines a mix of labor market and workforce information sources including those most widely and commonly consulted. The second part of the catalogue examines several web-based workforce and labor market information delivery systems. The third section of the catalogue highlights new and emerging data integration and analysis tools developed by the private-sector and federal government.

Workforce³ One October 2007 Newsletter

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Before you Blog…Re-brand and then Re-boot - Case Study: Centralina Workforce Development Board

Blogs are a good way to inexpensively connect with customers. This article in NetAssets describes how the the Centralina Workforce Development Board conducted customer research to better understand their customers perceptions. It suggests conducting similar customer outreach and research before embarking on a web redesign or the initiation of a blog.

National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Newsletter: Biotech Resource Line

National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Newsletter Biotech Resource Line: A Newsletter Tracking Trends in Biotechnology—This newsletter is a product of the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce, which is a High Growth Job Training Initiative grantee. The National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Regional Consortium of Community Colleges in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina serves as a model for others to deliver high quality Biotechnology programs by utilizing program efficiencies and at the same time allowing for unique regional diversity.