NAWB Industry News: July 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

NJ Labor Commissioner Visits South Jersey Business to Tout Success of ...

Citybizlist (press release)
The program is a partnership between the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), ...

L.A. County Workforce Board Celebrates Ten-Year Mark

PR Newswire (press release)
The WIB administers the distribution of Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to implement local workforce development programs and services to ...

Minnesota State Energy Sector Partnership Awards 14 Green Training Grants

Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
The energy sector partnership is an initiative of the Governor's Workforce Development Council, a 31-member body that analyzes and recommends workforce ...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Goodwill resource center growing

GoDanRiver.com
... Security Commission and the Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Board determined there was a need in the community for job training and outreach. ...

Summer Youth Employment Program gives hope to impoverished teens

Santa Cruz Sentinel
By Sarah Rolen The Summer Youth Employment Program, which began last summer, is helping low-income county youth prepare for the working world. ...

College will be regional hub for gas job training

Williamsport Sun-Gazette
... of Labor of the work Penn College has done in the past serves as a good basis to expand and standardize (job training) for the industry," he said. ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Workforce Florida Awards More Than $4 Million in Technology Grants ...

Workforce Florida Inc. is the statewide workforce investment board led by business and government leaders and charged with policy-setting and oversight of ...

Jobs program teaches teens, life, work skills

Sonoma Index-Tribune
The teens started their jobs on June 21 and make $8 an hour, for the eight-week program. The water agency started the program last year after receiving ...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ashland area group helping people get job retraining

BusinessNorth.com
The Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board is spending $386000 on advanced manufacturing training for 217 people throughout northwestern Wisconsin. ...

Anne Arundel Workforce Corp. awarded grant for cyber security training

ABC2 News
The Anne Arundel county Workforce Development Corporation, a consortium of academic, industry, and government partners, was awarded a grant to help train...

2010 North American Workforce Summit for Advanced Manufacturing ...

Ron Painter, CEO, National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB). Abe Eshkenazi , CEO, American Productivity and Inventory Control Society (APICS) ...

Teens get job training through coalition for burned churches

Gainesville Times
By Mimi Ensley mensley@gainesvilletimes.com Gainesville High School student Danika Wright has never had a job, so learning the ins and outs of the working ...

Passaic County college offering health care job training

NorthJersey.com
BY REBECCA OLLES Passaic County Community College is offering health care training courses beginning Aug. 2 for the unemployed and entry-level health care ...

New Hampshire Awards Job Training Grants To Five Companies

Gov Monitor
Governor Lynch has announced that five New Hampshire companies and nearly 400 workers will benefit from Job Training grants awarded in the month of July. ...

Monday, July 26, 2010

Youth program aims to improve Missouri state parks, create new jobs

KY3
Rachel Fuller's one of nine people working at the Boone site as part of the State Parks Youth Corps. She's spent here days writing an educational curriculum ...

Microsoft helps build workforce technology job skills

Historic City News
A program called “Microsoft Elevate America” will distribute up to 40000 vouchers for no-cost training and certifications to Floridians for a limited time ...

Phila. work force investment groups on path to merger

Philadelphia Business Journal
The boards of the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board and the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corp. are on the path to becoming one this fall, ...

A positive experience for young adults

Lompoc Record
Wiles said she got involved with the Santa Barbara County's Summer Youth Employment Program because her entire family was having trouble finding work and ...

Youth program exposes teens to job skills

Kenosha News.com
BY TERRY FLOREStflores@kenoshanews.com For Tiaria Harvey, 19 and LaQuita Callahan, 17, Kenosha County's Summer Youth Employment program has given them the ...

APSU, HCC get $1.2M for green job training

Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Austin Peay State University and Hopkinsville Community College were awarded a $1.2 million State Energy Sector Partnership grant to establish training for ...

Friday, July 23, 2010

Phila. could consider work force training approaches in NY, Chicago

Philadelphia Business Journal
Meanwhile, in New York, the New York City Workforce Investment Board has focused three of its nine career centers on specific industries to tailor its ...

Glickman looks back on Workforce Investment Board years

Philadelphia Business Journal
Looking back over her more than 10 years at the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, founder and CEO Sallie Glickman recalls placing three items in a ...

Racine County helping low-income residents by putting stimulus money to work

RacinePost
County Executive Bill McReynolds and Human Services Director Jonathon Delagrave announced Thursday the Workforce Development Center was awarded a $560580 ...

Jobs for the Future, Inc. Awarded Social Innovation Fund Grant

PR Newswire (press release)
"This award is testament to the hard work and innovative spirit found at the 23 local sites of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions," said Barbara Dyer ...

Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grants Awarded to Experienced Innovators

PR Newswire (press release)
The grantees will address urgent needs across three key issue areas – economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development and school support – by ...

Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske Launches Summer Youth Jobs Program in 5th District

Everything Long Beach (press release)
The Summer Youth Employment Training Program is administered by the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network's Youth Opportunity Center. ...

Cemetery hosts job training program for disabled

Contra Costa Times
Thornton provided a small hilltop clearing within the San Rafael cemetery, at 2500 Fifth Ave., as a site for the organization's horticulture training ...

US Department of Labor announces release of new study on Disability Program Navigator Initiative

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today released an evaluation study of the Disability Program Navigator Initiative titled "Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator Initiative." The study measures whether the public workforce system, particularly the One-Stop Career Center system, is helping people who are receiving Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance find jobs in the workplace. The study was conducted in Colorado, Iowa, Maryland and Oregon, and used both Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker, and Wagner-Peyser database information for program years 2002 through 2007.

Doing Right by Those Hit Hardest by the Recession

Secretary Solis Blog

A Washington newspaper recently commissioned a survey that showed that Washington insiders are experiencing the effects of the recession far differently than regular people throughout the country. They found that relatively few Washington insiders have been affected by the recession, while the vast majority of Americans have felt the pain caused by the historic economic downturn....

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Broward County School Board Announces $3 million investment

Examiner.com
The Broward County School Board announced a $3 million investment from the Workforce Development Fund into apprenticeship programs. ...

Tehama County youth gain summer work experience

Red Bluff Daily News
"It's not quite as large a program as last summer," said Janet Blackketter, Youth and Special Projects Manager at the Job Training Center. ...

Goldman Sachs funds summer jobs for youth

Downtown Express
Goldman Sachs, the global financial firm headquartered in Battery Park City, has donated $1.5 million to the City's Summer Youth Employment Program, ...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Workforce board gets state grant

Jackson County Floridan
By Deborah Buckhalter The Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board has received a $250000 grant to help put new computers in public places such as ...

Consortium to provide training for healthcare, green jobs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Holmes said the St. Louis area is the third region in the country to form a job training consortium from targeted Labor Department grants. ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Missouri Summer Jobs Program offers 4600 jobs to low-income youth

Columbia Missourian
Through the Central Missouri Community Action Center, there are 94 youth and young adults enrolled in the program with 20 employers. ...

Senate lining up more than $100 billion in spending initiatives this week

The Hill (blog)
... billion for an education jobs fund estimated to help save 140000 education jobs for the next school year, funding for Pell Grants, summer youth jobs

400 participants already enrolled in new healthcare job training program

Los Angeles Times
The new healthcare job training program placed Andre Hawkins, 22, at the surgical unit of Mission Community Hospital. He says he wants to become a

WIB's YouthBuild Program Awarded $374376 | Madison County Courier ...

By Margo
Michael A. Arcuri (NY-24) recently announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties $374376 in funding to continue the WIB's YouthBuild Program. ...

Summer program helps 334 teens with jobs

Macon Telegraph
The Workforce Development office is under the umbrella of the city of Macon but is federally funded. This summer, $632000 from federal American Recovery

City to get $11 million for summer jobs for youth

ABC7Chicago.com
... provide more summer jobs for low-income youth. Mayor Dley says the funding will support 2300 job opportunities for people between the ages of 16 and 24. ...

$2.9 Million Job Training Grant for Oakland's Peralta Community Colleges

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
... College District recently was awarded a $2.9 million US Department of Labor Community-based Job Training Grant to be distributed over three years. ...

UHMC accepting applications for Summer Youth Employment

Lahaina News
KAHULUI — University of Hawaii Maui College is accepting applications from students for a Summer Youth Employment Program. The program is provided through ...

Friday, July 16, 2010

Proposals for green jobs sought in Oklahoma

Federal stimulus money to create 1,000 jobs in Oklahoma
Oklahoma groups seeking up to $3 million to train and employ "green" workers have until July 25 to submit a statement of interest to the state Commerce Department.

The money is part of $6 million in federal stimulus money awarded to Oklahoma to train 1,000 workers in emerging industries such as energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Eligible are consortiums comprised of a state training entity, at least one Workforce Investment Board and employers.
Groups expressing interest can then submit detailed plans this fall for possible award by year's end.

"There are going to be highly competitive proposals," said Shawna McWaters-Khalousi, director of Oklahoma Project Green. "We are an energy-producing state. We are a natural for this."

The grants could make the traditional fossil fuel sector more efficient, expand new sectors like wind and solar power and make other industries such as manufacturing more green.

Training centers
The stimulus funding also is going to green jobs training centers across the state, including at Tulsa Community College, the state's CareerTech sites and the University of Oklahoma's Lean and Green Institute.

A Center of Excellence for Energy Innovation at Tulsa Community College's northeast campus will serve as a regional model for sustainability and a resource hub for emerging energy technologies, best practices, innovative curriculum and training opportunities.

New Website Connects Job Seekers With Hiring Businesses

In the midst of a terrible recession and slow employment recovery, the City of Long Beach launched a new job-finding resource today to connect employees with hiring businesses in Long Beach and beyond.

Promising Practices | SparkAction

The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) is one of the Employment and Training Administration's seven partners in the Intergovernmental Recovery ...

Summer Employment

Porterville Recorder
... with 34 high school students participating in the Supplemental Summer Youth Program under the Tule River Workforce Development Department. ...

$34 Million for Transitional Job Training in Wisconsin

WKBT
AP NewsCenter Entertainment News from AP Wisconsin is getting money to help people across the state gain job skills and re-enter the workforce. ...

Wired Comes to a Close, the Learning Group Is Established

Kansas City infoZine
OneKC WIRED developed dynamic, entrepreneurial partnerships that supported strategic economic and workforce development transformation in the bistate region ...

Summer jobs program offers youth a glimpse into government

Brandywine East Community News
The jobs pay only minimum wage, but in the current economic climate, demand for them was higher than ever, Farley said. “The night we had our youth ...

NEWS RELEASE: Missouri program offers jobs to youth

Boonville Daily News
By placing young people in paid internships, the MSJP will help youth develop the skills necessary to compete in the workforce. Youth who want to join will ...

State money to help businesses train workers

Charlotte Observer
... $187754 and will provide training for 467 local workers at the 12 companies, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Workforce Development Board announced Tuesday. ...

State to finance jobs for summer

Worcester Telegram
Another $1.8 million in federal stimulus funds will be used to support an additional 916 youth jobs. The state had previously committed $3.8 million to ...

Job training boost in Birmingham

news.careerstructure.com
We are training youngsters to become craftsmen, they will get qualifications and experience." Regeneration cabinet member Timothy Huxtable added that the ...

Job training money coming our way

Leader-Telegram
MADISON - The Chippewa Valley is receiving nearly $1.8 million to help train people for jobs, it was announced Monday. The funds are part of $34 million ...

Jobless aid for thousands in Inland area wind down

Press-Enterprise
Ron Painter, CEO of the National Association of Workforce Boards, a Washington, DC, group that represents county- and city-run job training and placement ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

State boosts teen summer job prospects with $9.1 million

South Coast Today
"This is huge," said Jean C. Fox, director of the Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc.'s Youth Council. Summer jobs are seen by local and ...

Jobless aid for thousands in Inland area wind down

Press-Enterprise
Ron Painter, CEO of the National Association of Workforce Boards, a Washington, DC, group that represents county- and city-run job training and placement ...

Federal grant pays summer employment wages for low-income Danbury teens

Danbury News Times
The teens' families also had to meet income eligibility guidelines. Once the teens were selected, the mayor's staff matched them with jobs at about a dozen ...

Webinar Invitation - On the Job Training Toolkit

Join us for a presentation on the recently released On-the-Job Training (OJT) Toolkit. The OJT Toolkit was designed with the input of state workforce agencies and local workforce areas. The result is a repository of OJT templates and forms including outreach materials, policies and procedures, contracts, and monitoring documents that may be customizable to meet your needs. We will review the layout of the OJT Toolkit and highlight the various useful templates and tools that will allow you to quickly and efficiently implement OJT in your area. The webinar will also include presentations from states and local areas, which are integrating OJT into their service delivery strategies.

Presenters: Vicky Loggins, Business Initiatives Coordinator, Division of Workforce Development, Missouri Department of Economic Development; Kim Gardner, Business & Industry Liaison, Pee Dee Regional Council of Governments, South Carolina; Jacob Perry, Regional Business Specialist, Portland Community College/WorkSource Portland, Oregon
Moderator: Chris Ollis, Chief, Division of Adult Services, Employment and Training Administration
Date: 07/16/2010
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern (1:00pm/Central, 12:00pm/Mountain, 11:00am/Pacific)
Length: 60 minutes

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Registration for this Webinar is limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Multiple people in one physical location are encouraged to register under one name and attend jointly.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Nonprofit group makes farmers of urban teens

Boston Globe
In the process, the city expects to create up to 50 temporary full-time jobs and 250 summer positions for local youth. “We like to think of the first lady

Business Briefs: WorkPlace gets second $500K grant for vets

Danbury News Times
Bridgeport-based The WorkPlace Inc., southwestern Connecticut's regional work force development board, will receive a $500000 grant for the Veterans' ...

Program designed to combat unemployment with on-the-job training

ENC Today
Tammy Childers, executive director of the Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board, the administrative fiscal agent for workforce development funds for ...

Program trains young workers

The South Florida Times
The next step is to apply those skills in the actual workforce; and thanks to the Keep Miami Beautiful Summer Youth Environmental Employment Program, ...

Youth employment program puts at-risk teens to work in green jobs

Press & Sun-Bulletin
Kirsten Gillibrand and other local officials were on hand Thursday to kick off this year's Summer Youth Employment Program, focusing on its Green Youth Job ...

Programs meet growing teen jobless needs

Cincinnati.com
Yet some summer youth jobs programs have found new ways to keep teens productive and have evolved to include long-term career training and emphasis on ...

Friday, July 9, 2010

Local Elected Officials Tour LA County Career Centers

The June 2010 unemployment data reported by the Employment Development Department (EDD) indicates that many private employers may still be wary of hiring, and that the economic recovery may not bring help fast enough for the 600,000 people unemployed in Los Angeles County, and the close to 2.28 million unemployed across California. This was a primary driver for California's Workforce Investment Boards to mobilize and host a series of open houses across the State for elected officials. The events focused on bringing elected officials face-to-face with their constituencies to discuss what strategies are on the horizon for getting the economy back on track and the job market stabilized. In Los Angeles County, elected officials, community and business leaders took part in six open houses hosted by California's publicly-funded "one-stop" career centers - - a critical employment and training resource to help both job seekers and businesses during this economic recovery. The California WorkSource Career Centers are southern California's "one-stops" and serve all of LA County.

Elected officials were eager to take part in these open houses, as their constituents are calling for immediate solutions to the economic woes. According to a recent Gallup poll, 57% of registered voters say the economy will be extremely important to their vote for Congress this year, making it the top issue in the 2010 elections.

"Our network of employment and training providers offer no-cost services and solutions for job seekers, laid off workers, youth and business in LA County," said LA County WIB Chair Dennis Neder. "The latest data reported by EDD is reflected in the increased traffic through our Centers and the stories we continue to hear on a daily basis about a tight job market."

The Open Houses gave elected officials an opportunity to see first hand the important services and programs for businesses and jobseekers in the region. LA County Workforce Investment Board (WIB) Executive Director, Richard Verches, said, "I think it was a real eye opener for members of Congress and their staff to see the sheer number of individuals lined up to enter our Centers when they opened, and how quickly our resource rooms fill to capacity with diverse job seekers of all ages and backgrounds."

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Governor Doyle Announces $4.55 Million Investment in Worker Training

WMTV
The Department of Workforce Development will work with workforce development boards, employers, unions, and technical colleges across the state to train ...

Governor Doyle Announces $4.55 Million Investment in Worker ...

By The Racine News Team
-West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board in Menomonie – $25000;. - Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board (in collaboration with the Waukesha-Ozaukee- Washington Counties and the Southeast Tri-County Workforce Boards) ...

Jobs program aims to aid 650 teens

Boston Globe
By Bonnie Kavoussi Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday encouraged a crowd of 200 teens to make the most of their summer jobs. “Life's about choices. ...

Free job training on tap

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Twin Cities schools are offering free training on green construction, carpentry, weatherization, welding and heavy-equipment operation. ...

Southern comfort food with a side of job training

Detroit Free Press
... the Script program, which offers job training to men and women who have been incarcerated or had other problems and want to turn their lives around. ...

Thursday, July 8, 2010

$2.5 Million Grant for Water Efficiency And Green Jobs « The Green ...

By greenblognetwork
Victoria Bradshaw, Secretary of the state Labor and Workforce Development Agency, who presented the awards, said "This is an important opportunity to help put people back to work while giving industries in the green economy the ability ...

Workforce Development: Part of the Solution to Education Challenge ...

By sandrahastings
As the preferred service provider for the unemployed and underemployed, the workforce development system must recast education and training services to increase the numbers enrolled in postsecondary education. ...

Dept of Labor Webinars on Workforce Development & Libraries ...

By MD Library Assoc. Legislative Panel
The Department of Labor has offered guidance on partnerships between workforce agencies and libraries. In the press release, two upcoming webinars were mentioned. The District Dispatch posting highlighted them as follows: ...

Call for Presenters for the 2011 National Smart Start Conference

MyNC.com
... shared services and accreditation facilitation, and workforce development strategies including training, education, and compensation. 2. ...

Working on workforce development | Outreach & Economic Development ...

The Southwest Virginia Workforce Investment Board, Western Virginia Workforce Development Board, and the New River/Mount Rogers Workforce Investment Board ...

New youth jobs program for York

King Township Sentinel
This summer, local area young people can get a job through the new Youth Opportunities Summer Employment Program in York Region. The Youth in Policing ...

Jail to job-ready: Longview Goodwill trains those who need it most

Longview Daily News
... all 10 who graduated either found employment or are receiving further training, Loren said. One graduate even landed a job as a crew foreman, she said. ...

Cherokees to get $850357 for job training

Muskogee Daily Phoenix
DENVER – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced $75 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for on-the-job training, ...

Kentucky gets more than one million in job training funding

WYMT
Governor Steve Beshear Tuesday announced Kentucky will receive a nearly $1 million On-the-Job Training (OJT) National Emergency Grant funded by the American ...

Grant will help fund vets' job training

New Haven Register (subscription)
He said there currently are 83 veterans participating in a weatherization training program. US Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-3, of New Haven, was on hand for the ...

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Directory to help Treasure Coast businesses reach around nation, world

TCPalm
Workforce Solutions Chief Executive Officer Gwenda Thompson said, “Florida's Research Coast's regional export directory will be a welcome tool for the local ...

Funds target youth jobs

Glendale News Press
By Melanie Hicken, melanie.hicken@latimes.com Local youth looking to enter the workforce could get a jump-start in energy industry jobs thanks to a job ...

Kentucky receiving nearly $1 million for job training programs

WYMT
The On-the-Job Training National Emergency Grant, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will help around 160 long-term unemployed ...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

PR Log - New Resource For Unemployed Opens

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Workforce Development Board, the North Carolina Department of Commerce and local faith-based community organizations partner to launch a second SHARE Network Access Point
location for job seekers for the Charlotte region.

Granholm: No Worker Left Behind program working

The Detroit News
Jennifer Granholm today defended No Worker Left Behind, saying the job training program she launched in 2007 is producing the results she envisioned. ...

Missouri receives $1.28 million on-the-job training grant

Springfield Business Journal
The grant will make it possible for workers to receive on-the-job training, allowing them to jointly receive wages and acquire training, according to a ...

Arundel gets $4.9 million cyber security training grant

Baltimore Sun (blog)
The Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation, Anne Arundel Community College and the Pathways to Cyber Security Careers Consortium initiative will ...

Funding comes through for St. Louis youth summer jobs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Well over a week after the official start of summer, word came Wednesday of a long-anticipated program to keep young people occupied, and employed, ...