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Provides a comprehensive picture of the different Community-Based Job Training Grant-funded initiatives, innovations developed, and implementation successes and challenges.

Summarizes curriculum offerings, activities, and accomplishments of Biotech training and certification in Austin, Texas, in courses specifically targeting the entry-level workforce and informed by strong collaboration with local employers.

Highlights workplace programs that improve basic skills, literacy, and English language skills and outlines state policy issues that will reinvigorate attention to workplace education strategies.

Provides step-by-step instructions and resources on designing and implementing work-based learning opportunities to upgrade the skills of new and incumbent frontline workers.

Reports on the third year (2010) of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), which is an initiative of national and local funders (including Local Workforce Investment Boards) whose goal is the career advancement of low-wage workers using...

Offers key principles for Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) using career pathways with disadvantaged populations, based on experiences of Workforce Innovation and Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grantees serving those populations.

This is the first report from the evaluation of the Community-Based Job Training Grants (CBJTG) program [that] focuses on building the capacity of community colleges to provide training to workers for high-growth, high-demand industries.

Summarizes outcomes, promising practices, barriers and policy changes evaluated in six Illinois Bridge Programs, designed to help adult learners transition into postsecondary education for training and credentialing necessary for high-demand...

Answers the question: what components are necessary to form a successful Employer Resource Network (ERN)?

Evaluates a pilot sector-based approach to workforce and economic development in Colorado to meet the needs of local business and to maintain the state’s economic competitiveness.