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Derrick Colbert Featured in NAWDP April Advantage Newsletter as Member Profile

April 10, 2024 | No Comments

KRA is proud to announce that NAWDP has chosen Derrick Colbert, KRA Director, Strategic Partnerships, as the Member Profile for the April Advantage Newsletter. His expertise in the operational aspects of program development for economic- and workforce-development initiatives is extensive, evidenced by prior Associate- and Director-level positions with the Executive Office of the DC Mayor, including the Workforce Investment Council; the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunities; and the Office on Returning Citizens Affairs. Derrick performs strategic analyses of industry trends that enhance business-expansion planning related to vital workforce-services resources, e.g., WIOA, TANF, and ARPA, collaborating with
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KRA Presents at NAWDP Annual Conference…Again!

April 20, 2023 | No Comments

The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals Annual Conference in-person event is sold out! However, check out the NAWDP website to register for the virtual event and to view the current schedule, which includes four do-not-miss KRA presenters’ workshops! May 8th, 9:00-10:00 AM, Joseph L. Seymour, Managing Director, Operational Excellence and 1st VP, Southeastern Training Association, will present Super Session Can I Say That? Dynamic Leadership for a Diverse Workplace. “With DEIBA being such a hot topic, we all know the…continue Can I Say That? Gina Brotherton Mayo, Career Readiness Facilitator & Special Projects and SNAP Program Coordinator, and
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Seymour Presents at NAWDP Youth Symposium

October 14, 2022 | No Comments

Joseph Seymour, KRA Managing Director, Organizational Excellence and SETA 1st VP/President-elect, opened an e-mail that read, “After a review of your proposal, we have ACCEPTED your submission for The Outcome Zone: Effective Performance Management for Workforce Professionals workshop. “We are EXCITED to have you be a part of NAWDP’s Youth Symposium 2022, and we appreciate your willingness to share your expertise with our attendees!” A 13-year KRA veteran, and prior recipient of NAWDP’s Professional Development Award, Joseph began creating diverse workshops, videos, and webinars in 2010, presenting at multiple National, Regional, and State Conferences and Forums, including several NAWDP Youth Development
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KRA Leaders Presented at NAWDP 38th Annual Conference

May 11, 2022 | No Comments

NAWDP’s 38th Annual Conference, sponsored by KRA, convened May 16-18, 2022, in Las Vegas, with both corporate and program leaders facilitating exciting workshops that focused on different types of “care” and COVID-related workforce development issues. On the Program Administration and Management track, Joseph L. Seymour, KRA Managing Director, Operational Excellence, and SETA 1st VP-elect, presented one of only six submissions selected as a Super Session: Trauma-Informed Care for Workforce Development Professionals. He stated, “Trauma-informed care is an approach that recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms, discussing the role that trauma may play in the lives of our program participants, various
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KRA/MedCerts Present at NAWDP!

May 13, 2021 | No Comments

In February 2020, we reported KRA/EPG/MedCerts Collaboration Celebrates CMAA Graduation, an event made possible when representatives from KRA, MedCerts, and Employ Prince George’s (EPG) discovered a shared objective: providing sustainable, industry-driven occupational-skills training (OST) for Prince George’s County TANF and SNAP jobseekers. The chance meeting, at the 2019 Annual NAWDP Conference, evolved into an innovative, successful collaborative pilot program that was to be featured through Blended Learning for Jobseekers with Barriers to Employment at the 2020 Annual NAWDP Conference in Orlando, which was cancelled due to COVID-19. On May 19, 10:00am (PDT), Melody Daniel, KRA/PGWorks Program Manager, and Sandy Mead, MedCerts National
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KRA Presents Workshops at NAWDP Annual Conference…Again!

May 20, 2019 | No Comments

For 30 years, the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) has supported workforce-services stakeholders to enhance and maintain their skills through continuing education, networking, and sharing ideas and experiences related to new and innovative programs and services. The KRA-NAWDP partnership is a strong and long-standing one—from providing sponsorship, presentations, and video-production services for Conferences, Forums, and Symposia, to supporting KRA staff while they share their expertise as contributors to and/or members of various Board, Committee, and pilot-program activities. KRA sponsored 24 corporate- and program-level staff members to attend the recent 2019 Annual Conference, with three senior-level employees facilitating workshops
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KRA Gets “Fiscal” at NAWDP 2018 Conference

June 15, 2018 | No Comments

Zaskia Ruiz, Contract and Budget Services Manager, and Queenie Galvez-Ramiro, Senior Budget Analyst, co-presented Let’s Get Fiscal! to a packed-house, providing important fiscal information, which included critical topics, such as: What are Grants; Where Funding Comes From (Federal, State, and Local/Subrecipient Sources); What’s Required; Types of Costs (Direct, Shared, Indirect); What’s Allowable/What’s Never Allowable; Who Checks/What’s Needed for Compliance; What Went Wrong/Consequences for Noncompliance; and How to be Fiscally Fit. For example, What Are Grants? included the following: funds provided to state and local governments and other entities to implement federal programs and to support specific purposes, topics, or causes; payment for services to be provided with legal obligations to services
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KRA Gets “Social” at NAWDP 2018 Conference

June 12, 2018 | No Comments

For nearly 30 years, the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) Annual Conferences have supported industry stakeholders to enhance and maintain their skills through continuing education; network with peers, mentors, and leaders; share ideas, experiences, and metrics about promising practices; and discover new and innovative programs, products, and services. NAWDP 2018, Making Your Workforce Shine, was no exception! Representing the San Diego County Career Centers—operated by KRA for the San Diego Workforce Partnership, a proud partner of America’s Job Center of California℠ Network—Manager of Training and Program Development Maylynne Rayos and Workshop Facilitator Terrance Bowens presented Social Media is
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KRA Presents at NAWDP 2017 Annual Conference

June 7, 2017 | No Comments

In addition to two Pre-Conference Workshops, this year’s National Association of Workforce Development Professionals event featured 70 General Workshops, presented through five “tracks”, two of which were Leveraging and Establishing Partnerships and Priority Populations. Six KRA subject-matter experts presented exciting workshops relevant to the other three tracks: Business and Economic Development – John Hattery, Director, Strategic Partners; Pamela Carnes, Program Manager, Business Engagement Services; and Jonathan Overall, Senior Business Services Consultant, co-conducted Congratulations! You’re the Business Services Manager…Now What? on innovative strategies for building regional business partnerships, initiating one-on-one business-engagement relationships, and effectively measuring results against WIOA performance standards. Delivering
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KRA Supports NAWDP 2015 Youth Symposium as Platinum Sponsor

September 25, 2015 | No Comments

Our September Spotlight! is shining brightly on National Workforce Development Month, and the organization responsible for its creation, the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals. As the result of a nationwide 2014 campaign, NAWDP, “The Voice of the Professional”, was successful in having September designated as National Workforce Development Month “to honor all those individual professionals who play such a vital role in our nation’s economic recovery efforts.” During the campaign, NAWDP’s website stated, “We hope our call for recognition through National Workforce Development Month will strike a responsive chord and bring support from political leadership, businesses, educational agencies, economic
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