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VIDEO: Nation’s Leading Workforce Experts Offer Perspectives at 2017 NAWB Forum

At this year’s annual NAWB Forum in Washington, D.C., the ResCare Workforce Services Network captured video footage of some of the nation’s leading industry experts in one-on-one interviews, workshops and industry briefings.

Their insights help provide important perspective on many of the unsettled issues that industry advocates are pondering in this current volatile era of workforce development.

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NC’s Rep. Virginia Foxx Selected as Chairwoman of House Committee on Education and the Workforce

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With approval of the full Republican conference, the House Republican Steering Committee has selected Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) as the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in the 115th Congress.

“My colleagues have entrusted me with a significant responsibility, and I look forward to building on the foundation established by leaders such as John Kline and John Boehner and continuing their legacy of honest, dogged work confronting the challenges facing America’s schools and workplaces. The committee will continue to work towards fostering the best opportunities for students to learn, workers to succeed and employers to grow,” said Rep. Foxx. “At all times, we will strive in our service to hold government institutions to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, with a constant eye towards eliminating waste and inefficiency. Our creative, ambitious pursuit of good policy will be guided by the Constitution more

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North Carolina Business Owners And NCAWDB Members To Meet With Trump Administration, Congress

Washington Must Address Skills Gap To Help North Carolina Residents Get Training, Education for Good-Paying Jobs with Opportunities for Advancement, Says Group

Delegation of Business Leaders from 25 States to Travel to DC December 7-8th

Greensboro NC —North Carolina business owners and Workforce Development Leaders will travel to Washington, D.C. to call on Congress and the incoming Trump Administration to support middle-skill jobs. The fly-in of employers from 25 states and the District of Columbia is being organized by Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU), a national coalition of employers from a range of industries who are working to address our country’s skills gap.

“In North Carolina, small- and medium-sized firms are offering good-paying jobs with opportunities to move up a career ladder. The market incentive is there – yet positions go unfilled because there simply aren’t enough tr more

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Fall 2016 Association Meeting

The Fall 2016 Association Meeting will be held in Greensboro on Wednesday, Oct. 5th at the Koury Convention Center in conjunction with the NC Workforce Partnership Conference.

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Final Report on Local-Level WIOA Implementation

SMRT (Strong Minds Rise Together) is pleased to offer their findings from the survey launched in May asking about local-level implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) around the nation. The 5-page executive summary can be accessed here. They received over 200 responses to complete this survey report, only local workforce development board representatives were included in this survey.

The Report Overview:

Local Workforce Development Boards face many challenges to implementing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). SMRT surveyed over 200 members from the community of local Workforce Development Boards to document the barriers they are facing. Our goal is to identify the obstacles, as well as some of the bright spots, in WIOA implementation to help local boards u more

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Association Executive Director Announced

We are very pleased to announce that Stephanie Deese will be joining the North Carolina Association of Workforce Boards (NCWADB) as the Executive Director on July 11, 2016. Stephanie will be responsible for providing strategic and operational support and leadership for the North Carolina Association of Workforce Development Boards working closely with the NCWADB executive team and Director’s Council.

Stephanie had over thirty years’ experience working in a variety of workforce development leadership roles before retiring in 2013. In addition to her previous professional work experience and expertise in managing federal grants, leveraging resources, and partnership building, for the past year she has been the National Emergency Grant Job-driven Initiative (NEG-JDI) project manager for the North Central Region.

Please join us in welcoming Stephanie to her new role as Executive Director.

You can reach Stephanie at:

919.414.2085
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Nathan, send me the document and I can put on the site. thanks, Steve

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Allocation determination

How are Board allocation cuts being determined by DWS. Has anyone had a discussion with DWS?

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