Transforming Lives through Workforce Development will cover building strategic business partnerships; creating a prisoner re-entry program based on mentoring and gaining employment; showing the success of your programs through outcomes-based evaluation; and discovering high-growth jobs in your area and how to place people in those jobs.
It takes a lot of work to move people from poverty, homelessness, or recent release from prison into sustainable employment. Have you ever wondered what else you can do to:
- Help your customers achieve self-sufficiency and growing wages?
- Build strategic partnerships with business leaders and hiring managers to place and retain your customers?
- Work with former prisoners trying to become productive citizens or increase your effectiveness in working with former prisoners?
- Help the people you work with access government programs that help with obtaining employment?
- Track results of your programs in order to market your programs for funding?
If you said "yes" to any of these questions, then please join us.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Agenda Topics
Morning Sessions
| 9:00 am |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 am |
Building Business Partnerships
This session covers how to build better
business partnerships by knowing the issues, the employers, and your organization’s own capabilities.
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| 10:15 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am |
Building Collaborations for Workforce
This session is focused on how your organization can partner with the publicly funded workforce system and other community members in order to place clients into “high-wage” jobs. |
| 11:30 am |
Working Lunch
This session features business leaders from high growth industries discussing partnership strategies and possibilities.
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Afternoon Sessions
| 1:15 pm |
Track One: Results-Based Management
This track covers how to build a prisoner re-entry program around case management, employment and mentoring and incorporates panel discussions from experts in the field.
Track Two: Outcomes Based Evaluation
This track covers how to increase your FBCOs effectiveness by using the Outcome-Based Evaluation method, which is a tool that assists in measuring, managing, and communicating your organization’s results.
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| 3:15 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm |
Sustainability
This workshop covers key skills and knowledge that will help to expand the private funding for your organization, including corporate and private donations.
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| 4:30 pm |
Adjourn |
The United States Department of Labor's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is hosting Transforming Lives through Workforce Development as a pre-conference to the White House Conference to be held on Friday, October 3, 2008.
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