| The
Social and Health Policy Center examines new solutions to our nation's
social and public health problems, as well as best practices in
program management and innovative funding strategies to ensure their
performance-based reporting, continuity and effectiveness. The center
works to identify and disseminate the learned lessons and leading
innovations in youth and adult workforce development and performance
measures and program strategies for public health services. It is
also committed to achieving permanency and outcome goals for youth
and family services programs such as Head Start, child care, foster
care, adoption, homelessness, and early childhood education. | Read
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 Initiatives
for Women in the 21st Century Workforce |
| At
the Second Annual Workforce Excellence Summit, September 14-16,
2004, in Georgetown, the Women's Bureau participated with
an engaging presentation on initiatives for women in the 21st
century workforce. Karen Furia, National Office Coordinator
and Karen Livingston, Management Analyst, with the Women's
Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, joined us to discuss promoting
profitable employment opportunities for women, to empower
them by enhancing their skills and improving their working
conditions, and to provide employers with more alternatives
to meet their labor needs. Project currently being conducted
by the WB were identified that folks are able to take back
to their local Workforce Investment Boards and duplicate in
their communities. |
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| How
to Merge Workforce Development and Economic Development |
| At
the recent Workforce Excellence Summit, September 14-16, 2004,
Melissa Aguilar with the West Virginia Development Office
in the Governor's Workforce Investment Division delivered
a dynamic presentation on merging workforce development and
economic development. Best practices from the state of West
Virginia which has led to identifying and implementing innovative
processes that eliminates unnecessary duplication in the administration
and resources of programs were highlighted in addition to
real time examples of workforce and economic development projects;
explaining the who's, what's, and how's of the successful
partnerships and creation of opportunities involved. |
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the Presentation in PDF |
Focusing
on the Frontline Staff |
| Paul
L. Singleton, Vice President of Operations, Dynamic Works
Institute recently presented at the Workforce Excellence
Summit, September 14-16, 2004 on serious issues facing the
workforce investment system such as a lack of training of
frontline staff, sparse technological resources, high turnover
and communication issues between management and staff. Frontline
staff are the crucial face of the workforce investment system
and their decisions ultimately affect system performance
results. Paul presented useful strategies for improving
the performance of frontline staff and ultimately, performance
of the workforce development system. |
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the Presentation in PDF |
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The
Institute offers consulting to lead your program staff in applying
the methodology framework for planning, managing, measuring and
evaluating your social and health policy programs. For more information
on Institute consulting, please contact [email protected].
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realize that bringing your whole office to a Performance Institute
event is not always practical, which is why the Institute is proud
to be able to customize its training programs and bring them directly
to your office! Using our staff of experts and a faculty of instructors
from government and the private sector, the Performance Institute
can tailor the curriculum of any program to meet the specific needs
of your department or agency. | Read
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