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The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) advocates for over 590 Workforce Development Boards across the country. These boards play a crucial role in connecting job seekers, businesses, and community partners to create a skilled workforce that meets regional economic needs.
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Curious about how workforce development boards help shape your community’s success? This short video highlights their vital role in connecting businesses, educators, and government leaders to build a stronger workforce. Explore how workforce boards empower job seekers, support businesses, and drive economic growth from the ground up.
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NAWB forges partnerships and secures funding to help workforce boards innovate and grow. By providing essential resources, we support talent development and advance national workforce initiatives. Together, we build capacity and create a more competitive workforce.
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What is the Family-Centered Employment approach?
The Family-Centered Employment approach integrates workforce development with family support services, addressing the broader needs of job seekers and their families.
Who can benefit from this initiative?
Both job seekers and their families benefit from this initiative, particularly those facing multiple barriers to employment.
How can workforce boards implement this model?
Workforce boards can adopt the Family-Centered Employment model by partnering with community organizations to provide comprehensive family services alongside traditional employment programs.
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How Workforce Councils Are Transforming Futures Across The Nation
SEE REAL SUCCESS STORIESNorthwest Tennessee Workforce Board
An at-risk youth finds stability and hope through a WIA grant program that combines peer tutoring and work experience.Spokane Area Workforce Development Council
Youth career and employment center helps Teresa overcome family instability, finish high school, and begin studying to be a dental assistant.South Central WorkForce Council
On the Job Training helps Barry get his foot in the door to new employment.Call To Action
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As a NAWB member, you connect with leaders shaping the future of work. Access insights, policy expertise, and opportunities for collaboration that drive real change. Together, we strengthen workforce systems and create opportunities for businesses and job seekers.
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Future of Work
In the summer of 2018, the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (BFNA) kicked off a series of dialogues in several cities and regions with vastly different economic and occupational profiles to learn how technology and automation – “the future of work” – is impacting workers, businesses, labor markets, industries, and, more generally, the community at large.
NAWB and BFNA visited three cities: Orlando, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada, Riverside, California, where they partnered with local workforce boards to convene leaders in business, education, workforce development, and government to discuss the future of work and its impact locally. From these conversations, BFNA developed a microsite that highlights key analysis, video content, and other insights derived from research conducted during the visits.
To view videos and insights from the project, visit the microsite Transatlantic Cities and Future of Work.
Solar Training Network
Advancing new pathways to employment for parents and families with young children
The Solar Training Network is a former initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, and was designed to meet the workforce needs of the solar industry through solar training and strategic employment partnerships. NAWB was a key partner in this effort to train 75,000 people for careers in solar by 2020.
The Solar Training Network supported this growth by building connections that created long-lasting careers to help power the next generation of energy leaders.
SolarTrainingUSA.org was developed as a connection hub for solar job seekers, solar companies looking for new hires, solar training providers, and workforce development boards.
"The NAWB Executive Boot Camp provided me an opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the country and glean ideas, best practices, and strategies around workforce development. "
— Ricardo Villalobos, Ph.D. - Workforce Connections Southern Nevada
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- Expand funding for ITAs and tie this funding to mechanisms that account for increased worker demand for training during economic downturns, especially investments that enable employers to quickly fill in-demand positions while ensuring workers successful completion.
- Broaden the underlying definition for training services within WIOA, including what can be funded by ITAs, to better account for costs and expenses that enable successful completion and credential attainment (e.g. “training enabling” services such as transportation, childcare, etc.).
- Create a single point of access for individuals to access training opportunities that are not only funded by WIOA but other federal investments to facilitate a national marketplace for high-quality training opportunities to allow consumers to search for and identify providers that meet their needs.
- Expand Pell Grant eligibility for students enrolled in high-quality, shorter-term skills development programs while utilizing existing WIOA processes to ensure these programs align with in-demand careers and wider economic opportunity.
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Our team of dedicated professionals and volunteers works together to drive workforce strategies that fuel growth and prosperity across communities, empowering local boards to meet the needs of businesses, job seekers, and industries nationwide.
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NAWBlog is NAWB’s medium for highlighting stories of interest in the workforce development world through the eyes of our staff. These blogs will cover a range of topics from local success stories, advocacy, breaking news, in demand career sectors, and much more.
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- Promote skills-based hiring initiatives through the use of linked, open, and interoperable data formats for information generated by the public workforce development system and incentivize other efforts that facilitate skills-based hiring practices more generally.
- Expand access to quality sources for individual-level employment data to improve related reporting and accountability efforts, which could include the establishment of a public-private national workforce data exchange to reduce reporting and collection costs, promote interoperability, and increase data quality, value, and timeliness.
- Invest in the public workforce system’s capacity to produce and make use of real-time labor market information to ensure training experiences lead to true opportunities in the labor market.
- Codify and enhance the Workforce Data Quality Initiative to better connect and connect funded activities to other federal investments in state longitudinal P20W data systems with a particular emphasis on efforts to promote data sharing among states and integration of data systems within states.
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