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Workforce Development

Sector Strategies In Brief

This publication is designed to provide a concise overview of the elements and outcomes associated with sector work.

BY Maureen Conway

Publication

11.01.2007
Workforce Development

Sectoral Strategies for Low-Income Workers: Lessons from the Field

This publication examines the sectoral development field, explaining how it differs from other workforce development approaches, how it has grown over time, what is has achieved, and how it can be used to strengthen regional economies and business competitiveness.

BY Maureen Conway & 3 more

Publication

10.01.2007
Workforce Development

Update Issue 4: Sector Initiatives and Community Colleges:

This issue takes an in-depth look at strategic collaborations between community colleges and community-based sectoral employment initiatives.

BY Institute Contributor, & 1 more

Publication

04.19.2007
Workforce Development

How Does Business Benefit from Sectoral Workforce Development Services?

This issue describes the lessons learned from nine sectoral workforce development programs and their business customers as they worked with WSI to create a process for assessing the value of their services from the employers’ perspective.

BY Amay Blair

Publication

09.01.2005
Workforce Development

Building Communications Capacity for Sector Programs

This edition of Update examines the experiences of six sectoral employment development programs as they tackled specific communications challenges and attempted to build their overall communications capacity.

BY Maureen Conway & 1 more

Publication

10.01.2004
Workforce Development

Evaluation of the Sectoral Employment Demonstration Program

This report, a collaborative effort between the Urban Institute and WSI, documents the range of projects undertaken and the outcomes achieved by the 38 Workforce Investment Boards (WIBS) participating in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Sectoral Employment Development Demonstration project.

BY Maureen Conway & 4 more

Publication

06.01.2004
Workforce Development

Building Effective Employer Relations

This publication details some of the important lessons learned from the strong relationships that have developed over time between 10 sector projects and their employer partners.

BY Linda Dworak-Muñoz

Publication

05.01.2004
Workforce Development

Sectoral Workforce Development: Research Review and Future Directions

This report describes the proceedings of two meetings initiated by WSI in Spring 2004.

BY Maureen Conway

Publication

04.21.2004
Workforce Development

Key Research Findings and Implications For The Workforce Investment Act

Key Research Findings and Implications for the Workforce Investment Act, a new policy brief from WSI, draws on findings from a multi-faceted investigation of industry-specific or “sectoral” workforce development, to offer an overview of this research and discuss implications for Workforce Investment Act legislation.

BY Ida Rademacher & 1 more

Publication

06.01.2003
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