EVENTS

Commonwealth Workforce Coalition Sharing Skills - Building Connections Conference in Worcester: March 12, 2008

SkillWorks co-sponsored this conference along with the United Way and the Commonwealth Corporation. SkillWorks' grantee, the Workforce Solutions Group, and UMass Medical Center presented a session on how to draw down reimbursement for employment training services provided to Food Stamp recipients through the Food Stamp Employment and Training program. The Community Health Worker Initiative, a SkillWorks workforce partnership, also presented in a session on making connections with higher education. Resources and information from SkillWorks' two workshop sessions can be found below.

FSET Presentation
For more information, please contact Anthony Owumi, Center for Health Care Financing at UMass Medical School, at 617-886-8107 or anthony.owumi@umassmed.edu

CHW Initiative presentation
CHW Initiative handouts
For more information, please contact Roma Goodlander, CHW Initiative Project Director, at 617-348-6591 or goodlander@bostonabcd.org

Celebrating Five Years

Please come and join us in celebrating five years of SkillWorks! This event will recognize the accomplishments of SkillWorks’ industry and public policy partnerships and the success of workers that have participated in training and advancement activities. Hosted by Paul Grogan, President and CEO of The Boston Foundation, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, this is sure to be an exciting event.

SkillWorks Project Manager Training and Peer Exchange on Financing, November 18, 2006

Presentation: IRS Section 127: Employer-Provided Educational Assistance
Presentation: The LiLA Program: Lifelong Learning Accounts
Presentation: Boston's Workforce Development Funding
IRS Publication 970 (Annotated Version)
Food Stamp Employment & Training: 50/50 Match Funding
Economic Stimulus Bill of 2006: Workforce Development Provisions
Going to Scale with IDAs in Massachusetts
Employment and Training - Questions and Answers
Public Funding Strategies and Resources for Programs in Workforce Development

African American Males and OTDA's Earned Income Tax Credit, October 25, 2006

In this speech delivered by Senator Charles Schumer and sponsored by the Association for a Better New York and 100 Black Men, he describes SkillWorks as " a more systemic, more intimate connection to the employers than most training programs could do on their own." Read the entire speech (PDF).
 

SkillWorks Project Manager Training and Peer Exchange on Career Coaching: July 13, 2006

    Topic: Re-design and management of career coaching programs
  Objective: To provide project directors with ideas for refinement of their career coaching methods/models to enhance achievement of program and participant goals
Agenda
Proceedings
 

Fundamentals of Instructional Design Training: June 7 and July 19, 2006

Proceedings
 

Building a 21st Century Workforce:
A Forum on Jobs and Opportunity with the Candidates for Governor

Thursday, June 29, 2006

On Thursday June 29th at 6:00 pm, SkillWorks sponsored a gubernatorial forum featuring all six candidates for governor of Massachusetts. Read about their strategies for job creation and retention, adult education, and skills training.

More information
   

Career Coaching Training: May 5, 2006

Proceedings
Step-by-Step Decision Making Process
Career Coach Time Evaluation
Managing Time Effectively
Your Organization's Expectations and Goals
Goal Statement Chart
 

Career Coaching Meeting: April 4, 2006

Proceedings
List of Assessments
List of Web Resources
Sample Participant Survey of Values
Sample of Particiant Job Search and Career Transition Readiness Survey
Sample of Career Coach Time Management Evaluation
 

Career Coaching Meeting: March 1, 2006

Proceedings
 

Quarterly Grantee Meeting: December 7, 2005

Proceedings
 

25, 2006