About SkillWorks › Goals
SkillWorks has two primary goals:
- To help low and moderate income individuals attain family supporting jobs
- To help businesses find and retain skilled employees
We accomplish these goals by striving to:
- Increase the resources targeted to education and skills training, especially for low-skill, entry-level employees
- Build the capacity of workforce development providers to meet the human resource needs of employers and low and moderate income individuals
- Promote public policies that help low and moderate income individuals advance into family-sustaining jobs
- Providing greater access for low-skilled individuals to post-secondary education through better preparation, transition, and support services.
In order to achieve large-scale, sustainable improvements to the workforce development system that we seek, SkillWorks invests in three systems change strategies: