Monthly Archives June 2021

Young KRA Customer’s Career is Flying High In 2015, KRA launched its proprietary Knowledge2Career (K2C) Academy, providing Out-of-School Youth, 18-to-24, occupational-skills training linked directly to employment with local businesses in high-demand industries. Established in 2019, the KRA/K2C Academy in Greater Hartford, CT—operated in partnership with the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) for Capital Workforce Partners—targets the Manufacturing Industry, providing 72 hours of Tooling U-SME coursework that complies with CT/DOL Pre-Apprenticeship requirements. Anthony “Tony” Harrington, KRA/K2C Operations Manager, reports, ”Traditionally, one  of the most challenging aspects of developing a truly diverse K2C training program has been recruiting and encouraging young women to
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KRA customers enrolled in the Work Participation, Placement, and Support Services Program, operated for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, are required to complete KRA’s Job Readiness Program (JRP) prior to occupational-skills training and/or job-placement opportunities. Prior to March 2020, JRP workshops were conducted in person, classroom-style—not a suitable venue with the onset of pandemic-related physical-distancing requirements. However, KRA/Baltimore City remained responsible for providing JRP workshops—critical to successful career-development planning—that focus on workplace-readiness skills, e.g. resume-building, interviewing, and dressing for success and soft-skills development, e.g. worksite communications and problem-solving. Inspired by the Baltimore City School System’s virtual-learning program, Alyssa
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For the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, KRA operates both the Westside American Job Center (WAJC) and the Chatham Workforce and Education Center (CWEC), on the Southside. Every month, KRA/Chicago distributes information on Virtual Job Readiness Training (JRT) Workshops and Hiring/Resources  Events to WAJC and CWEC participants for registration and participation. In addition to the June 10 Virtual Hiring/Resource Event [WAJC], convened collaboratively with the West Town Community Committee, and the June 25 Career Empowerment Workshop [WAJC/CWEC], other June WAJC events include:  Mondays – WIOA and ConstructionWorks Training Orientation. Tuesdays – Combined JRT on Resumes (Learning the importance of using a
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Sylvia Henry, KRA Operations Manager, Las Vegas One-Stop Career Centers (LV-OSCC), reports, “In response to mandated COVID-19 requirements, the LV-OSCC had to adapt its expansive service-delivery system [SDS], including critical communication processes, at an unprecedented pace.” Operated for Workforce Connections (WC), the WDB for Southern Nevada, the LV-OSCC is a collaborative system of WIOA-services providers, training partners, and community-based organizations that contribute customized workforce-services resources through one Comprehensive OSCC facility and 10 public-library affiliate sites—prior to the application of pandemic-related restrictions. After LV-OSCC offices closed to the public, the network relied primarily on daily blast e-mails to communicate information critical
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