Aspen Institute
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Leah Murphy
07/06/2009 - 6:25am
Handbook provides general guidance and instructions for using a set of tools to measure the value that a workforce development organization delivers to its business clients. That handbooks and tools are the product of two years of collaborative effort by a group of employer and workforces development leaders, convened by the Aspen Institute. The group created a framework of question, covering the primary ways that business seeks value from workforce services, and addresses these questions in the handbook.
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Leah Murphy
07/06/2009 - 6:13am
This resource describes the third phase of a sectoral approach (targeting high priority industry clusters and related jobs) to education and training for low income and low-skilled individuals, especially to identify the successes and challenges they have faced participating and remaining in the labor market four years after training. 26 participants from three different programs were interviewed (individually and in focus groups). The study illuminates how the training influenced participants' employment path and how other life experiences have played a role. These honest, poignant experiences, successes, and challenges are heard through the participants' voices and the authors' interpretations of what they heard in the study.
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Leah Murphy
07/06/2009 - 6:03am
This publication looks at the sectoral development field, explaining how it differs form 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. Content was drawn from interviews with workforce program leaders, program visits and survey responses from more than 225 workforce organizations. Included are brief case studies on dozens of innovative initiatives that illustrate key aspects of the sector strategy.
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Leah Murphy
07/06/2009 - 4:57am
Brief based on Sector Strategies for Low-Income workers: Lessons from the Field by Maureen Conway, Amy Kays Blair, Steven L, Dawson and Linda Dworak-Munoz. Breif provides overview description of sector strategies including: purpose, various types, definitions, outcomes, and various examples of sector strategy implementation and successes.
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