Research and Reports
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tcoxen
11/23/2010 - 11:49am
This guidebook from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is tool is designed to assist both regional funding collaboratives and the workforce partnerships they support by generating understanding of what constitutes a productive and well-functioning workforce partnership.
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tcoxen
11/23/2010 - 11:42am
A brief summary of state sector strategy activity in the fall of 2010.
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tcoxen
04/01/2010 - 8:55am
This report from the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board describes the interconnections between two streams of activity supporting the health care industry in Pennsylvania: Health Care Industry Partnerships and the Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers. Although the strategies have largely been separate, the report identifies ways that the separate but related activities of these independent initiatives influence one another.
This report is also an excellent example of how a state has aggregated data from multiple partnerships within a single industry of focus.
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tcoxen
03/31/2010 - 3:12pm
This report from North Carolina describes the process of establishing the state's sector strategy for the Allied Health industry, learnings from that experience, and recommendations for the future.
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tcoxen
01/19/2009 - 4:53pm
This issue brief was developed at the beginning of Phase 1 of the Accelerating State Sector Strategies project. Targeted at Governors and state policymakers, it explains sector initiatives and their advantages and offers examples of state initiatives.
The Phase 1 project report follows and builds on the topics identifed in this issue brief.
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tcoxen
12/01/2008 - 4:34pm
The Illinois Workforce Investment Board (IWIB) established the Transportation and Logistics Task Force on December 9, 2005 to develop recommendations for addressing the causes of worker shortages in transportation and logistics as documented in regional reports from the Critical Skill Shortages Initiative (CSSI). The task force was asked to focus on issues that required state level action. The IWIB requested that the task force present findings and recommendations at the September 2006 IWIB meeting.
This report summarizes the major findings and recommendations of the Transportation and Logistics Task Force. The first section provides background information on the formation of the task force, task force meetings, and the major issues addressed. The second section provides a definition of transportation and logistics and provides some basic facts on the size and importance of the sector in Illinois. This section also highlights the major worker shortages. The final section summarizes the task force findings and recommendations and proposed next steps.
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tcoxen
12/01/2008 - 4:30pm
The Illinois Workforce Investment Board (IWIB) established the Manufacturing Task Force on December 9, 2005 to develop recommendations for addressing the causes of worker shortages in manufacturing as documented in regional reports from the Critical Skill Shortages Initiative (CSSI). The task force was asked to focus on issues that required state level action. The IWIB requested that the task force present findings and recommendations at the September 2006 IWIB meeting.
This report summarizes the major findings and recommendations of the Manufacturing Task Force. The first section provides background information on the formation of the task force, task force meetings, and the major issues addressed. The second section summarizes the task force findings and recommendations and proposed next steps. This section begins with an overview of manufacturing and its major trends in Illinois and the most critical worker shortages. This section then presents the major recommendations on how to address these shortages in Illinois.
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tcoxen
10/28/2008 - 2:18pm
As part of the first two years of the project, the partners staffed and teamed with members of eleven states participating in the project to develop a framework for analyzing the results of statewide sector strategies. The result of these efforts is an Evaluation Framework for State Sector Strategies, presented in this paper.
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tcoxen
08/11/2008 - 2:43pm
Project report with examples and critical success factors across 11 states implementing sector strategies.
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tcoxen
08/05/2008 - 3:55pm
This “thought paper” was requested by the Seattle Foundation to deepen national understanding of the policy features that integrate sector approaches and low-income worker success.
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tcoxen
07/31/2008 - 11:00pm
This report documents the range of projects undertaken and the outcomes achieved by 38 WIBs that participated in a 2000 demonstration program funded by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor determine whether sector-based strategies could be adopted and used effectively by local WIBs.
The demonstration included 26 formation grantees that received one-year grants (some with three-month extensions) to form stakeholder groups, collect and analyze labor market data, analyze industry opportunities and training capacity, and develop a strategic plan for the selected industry sector. Twelve organizations were awarded 15-month implementation grants (some with 3- or 6-month extensions) to undertake specific sectoral interventions, such as outreach, recruitment, curriculum development, training, and designing career paths for the benefit of individual participants within the context of specific industry/occupational sector needs.
