EmployNV Reno: Excellence in One-Stop Operation
EmployNV Reno’s Business/Career HUB exemplifies excellence in One-Stop workforce operations through a customer-centric, integrated service model that supports both jobseekers and employers across Northern Nevada’s 13-county region. Managed by KRA for NevadaWorks, the HUB reflects a continued commitment to innovation, efficiency, and economic growth. The original American Job Center of Nevada One-Stop Operation opened on […]
ED and DOL Celebrate Workforce Development Partnership
On December 5, 2025, the US Department of Education (ED) issued a Press Release, providing an update on the Administration’s actions to integrate the federal government’s workforce-development portfolio. The Departments transitioned the WIOA State Plan Portal (SPP) to DOL to streamline federal workforce-development programs, thereby allowing ED and DOL to jointly administer core WIOA programs, […]
KRA Supports Baltimore County’s Workforce-System Partners to Work Better—Together
Since July 1, 2017, KRA has served as the One-Stop Operator (OSO), playing an essential role in keeping Baltimore County’s workforce system aligned, responsive, and effective. Under contract with the Department of Economic and Workforce Development (DEWD), KRA helps ensure that OSO- designated workforce partners are not just meeting WIOA requirements, but actually working together in […]
Join Our Live Winter Webinar Series
This winter, KRA invites workforce professionals and partners to take part in our Live Winter Webinar Series, a special five-session virtual experience built around the work you do every day. Hosted on Microsoft Teams, each session—designed to strengthen programs, develop teams, and drive measurable results—delivers practical insight, real tools, and actionable strategies you can apply […]
KRA/LA County AJCC and CoE Approach to Career Services
Since September 2024, KRA has operated the Los Angeles County Rancho Dominguez American Job Center of California (AJCC) and County-designated Center of Excellence (CoE) for justice-involved individuals—offering no-cost Career Services, i.e., one-on-one counseling and guidance, educational opportunities, and job-skills development, preparation, and placement—for WIOA-eligible Adult, Dislocated, and Youth jobseekers. JaVette Pettaway, Program Director, observes, “A key factor in the success of KRA’s approach is that our Career Services’ staff and Outreach Specialists work as a team to continually engage and strengthen business- and community-partnerships as vital […]
KRA/OMJ Approach to Providing Career Services
Since September 2024, KRA has provided WIOA-funded Career, Business, and One-Stop Operator Services for Adult and Dislocated Workers through the OhioMeansJobs (OMJ) Career Center Network, with offices in Akron [Summit County] and Medina [Medina County]. The KRA/OMJ approach to providing the most effective Career Services is to meet our customers where they are—at their unique level of readiness—embracing a system through which we ensure accessibility protocols to […]
KRA Approach to Providing TANF Career Services
Since 2012, KRA has supported the DC Department of Human Services as a TANF Employment Programs (TEP) Provider, offering comprehensive Career Services—employing a 2-Gen approach to serving families so that parents and children can grow together—that provide effective pathways to self-sufficiency through: The Education, Occupation, and Training (EOT) Program equips our jobseekers with the workforce tools needed for sustainable employment, offering coaching, credentialing support, and hands-on […]
KRA Thanks You for Your Service!
Today, we celebrate Veterans Day to honor all men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces. History tells us that in 1918, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice, i.e. a temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the […]
Maryland Invests in State Cybersecurity Workforce Training
On October 6, 2025, in its Workforce & People section, a govtech.com post reported that “The Maryland Department of Labor, with its Cyber Maryland program, has announced the state’s Cyber and AI Clinic Grant, which will support workforce development within the cybersecurity field. “The Cyber Maryland investment aims to support organizations that invest in workforce […]
KRA/LA County Business Roundtable-Career Fair Duo a Huge Success
Since September 2024, KRA has operated the Rancho Dominguez American Job Center of California (AJCC) for Los Angeles County, offering no-cost Career Services—including education, skills development, and job preparation/placement—for Adult, Dislocated, and Youth jobseekers and Business Services for employers in the County. JaVette Adams-Pettaway, AJCC Program Director, states, “One of the vital services we offer […]