Donna and associates:

 

I've had reasonable success with The WorkPlace, Inc. in Bridgeport CT.
What I mean by reasonable success, is they asked me to manage to
incumbent worker grants;  in both cases I was part of the team that
advised them on the content of the grant request in terms of outcomes
and process.  In the first case they had a little contact with three
companies that they wanted to "help" but did not really ask the company
if they were interested.  When the grant was received, all three of the
companies turned them down for different reasons.   Three of my existing
customers were then substituted in the grant and the feds accepted that
substitution.

 

The frustrating part was the allocation of funds; for the actual hands
on training only about 30% was allocated for a very short workshop for
each of the companies-three days at each company, 25% of the funds were
allocated and the Board took the rest.  

 

The next grant, I asked if we could include the local community college
as the external evaluators, to which they agreed and the allocation of
funds was much better.  For that grant the emphasis was on health care
and training of CNN's in "clean principles" to prevent contagious
diseases.  Two participants were hospitals and the third was a very
large three stage nursing home facility.  Went much better there.

 

In another context, I'll be happy to share the subsequent story.  Now
that workplace boards are not supposed to deliver program to assure
their objectivity as grantors, the pictures has become very interesting.

 

Jack Hickey-Williams

President

Empowering Resources

 

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Barbara Tondre
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:05 AM
To: 'The Workplace Literacy Discussion List'
Subject: [Workplace 1422] Re: career development, workforce ed

 

If someone has had significant success working with workforce boards, by
all means we need to hear about it.  I'm talking serious inroads around
the politics - much more than an MOA.  Barbara 'Tondre

 

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Brian, Dr Donna J G
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 1:26 PM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1416] Re: career development, workforce ed

 

Thanks for sharing, Susan.  It seems to me that we should be trying to
be more aware with what is going on with Workforce Boards with an eye to
increasing our opportunities for collaboration and cooperation with
their efforts.  Of course, it should be happening the other way around
too, with workforce boards looking to us for our expertise and
collaboration.  I'd be really interested in any success stories from
discussion list members about their collaborations with workforce
boards.  Anyone?

Donna

 

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Moderator, LINCS Workplace Literacy Discussion List

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Jacobe, Susan A
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:04 PM
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Cc: Chen, Shu-ching
Subject: [Workplace 1415] career development, workforce ed

 

I wanted to pass this along, in case list members haven't seen it. 

 

The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) has posted several
items about career development and workforce education:

 

-         Call for Papers for Careers Conference 2009

-         U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report Workforce
Development:  Community Colleges and One-Stop Centers Collaborate to
Meet 21st Century Workforce Needs

-         Summer Institute on Education & Work (July 28 & 29 at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison Pyle Center)

 

Link:  http://www.nawb.org/ (See the "Hot News" box.)

 

 

Susan Jacobe

Texas Workforce Commission

Research & Evaluation Section

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