Monthly Archives April 2016

On the threshold of the month of May, which is National Mental Health Awareness Month, our Spotlight! is focused on the KRA/San Diego Metro Region Career Centers’ innovative new program, Breaking Barriers San Diego (BBSD), which supports area businesses in hiring jobseekers with mental-health challenges. KRA’s 2015 Community Care Campaign targeted disability employment as a high-priority workforce-services concern, collaborating with local private- and public-sector partners to initiate, expand, and/or support service-delivery systems that focus on customers’ abilities, not their disabilities. Under the auspices of the San Diego Workforce Partnership, KRA/San Diego has been able to implement BBSD, an employment program that
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Cargo ships transport 90% of the world’s commodities, raw and in-process materials, and finished goods, with Port of Los Angeles and adjacent Port of Long Beach comprising the sixth busiest seaport in the world! Successful port operations spin-off career opportunities in Supply Chain Management, a kind of “super industry” that supports other business sectors, including industrial and systems engineering, IT, logistics, operations management, procurement, warehousing, and dozens more. Through the Pacific Gateway WDB, in partnership with the City of Long Beach, 14 KRA Knowledge2Career (K2C) Academy students have completed training in Customer Service Operations, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Principles, and
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The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) has selected Ernestine Chambers as the 2016 recipient of its Jodi Spiegel Enhancement of Customer Service Award, an honor previously bestowed on other KRA employees in 2013 and 2014. The  Awards Committee concluded that Ernestine’s Individual Achievement and Circumstances & Challenges, as well as her contributions to the Advancement of the Profession “directly affect the customers of the workforce development system through enhanced assessment strategies, customer focused procedures, case management systems, and related services.” When informed of the decision, Ernestine responded, “I am sincerely honored, and blessed to have such a rewarding
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Recently,  Bridget Brown, Executive Director of the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) congratulated KRA President & CEO, Knowlton R. Atterbeary, on being selected as the 2016 recipient of its prestigious Peter E. Kaiser Leadership Award! This honor is one of only five meritorious Advancing the Profession Awards bestowed by NAWDP annually to recognize workforce-services professionals—in this case, a “visionary leader”—who are making exceptional contributions to the Workforce Development industry. When informed of the NAWDP Awards Committee’s selection, Mr. Atterbeary responded spontaneously, “Wow! This is a surprise that is both humbling and flattering.  I am pleased, of course, to be the award recipient, but
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