Career Pathways

In a high rise building in the heart of downtown Seattle, Susan Crane, Executive Director of SkillUp Washington, is in her 13th floor office increasing coordination and building linkages between workforce partners.

The following commentary appeared in the April 4, 2011 edition of Modern Healthcare (pdf download). In it, Larry Beck and Pamela Paulk, leaders at competing hospitals in Baltimore, MD, discuss how building and supporting the health care workforce can provide a platform for competitors to collaborate on a common challenge.

A new report released by Organization for Economic Cooperation and

NFWS Executive Director Fred Dedrick appeared on The Lincoln Brown Show yesterday. Click here to listen to the audio.

The Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford passed along this success story:

If not for her impacted wisdom teeth, who knows where Danielle George would be today.

Recently, we sat down with Jennifer Riggenbach from Workforce Central, the Regional Collaborative in Central Wisconsin, to discuss what her collaborative does and the impact that its having in rural Wisconsin.

Pretend we're a potential supporter of the collaborative. Give us your elevator speech about what your collaborative does.

The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network joined with 19 other community partners to provide $880,000 in local matching funds to secure a federal Second Chance Act Offender Reentry Demonstration grant of nearly $750,000, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported earlier this week.

Here’s something we may not always think about: how scary a new training and career advancement program can be for incumbent employees. Watch the three-minute video clip below. It’s from an interview with Timothy Meade, a mental health worker at Temple University Episcopal (part of Temple University Health System) and a participant in the District 1199c Training and Upgrading Fund.