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Smart Workforce Solutions
Business Services from the Missouri Career Centers of Joplin and Monett
National Project Enhances Innovation for SW MO
The Missouri Career Center sets the bar high for innovative ways to help its business customers succeed and the region’s economy to reach its potential. Southwest Missouri’s Workforce Investment Board (WIB) sets the goals and designs the strategies behind the scenes to make it happen. A key accomplishment for the WIB in late 2006 is its entry into the National Business Learning Partnership (NBLP), a collaboration of protégé and mentor pairings to advance the quality and innovation of workforce programs across the U.S.
The Southwest Missouri WIB was one of only 21 top protégé groups selected nationwide to participate in NBLP. Jasen Jones and Tracy Lemmons represented Southwest Missouri recently at a kickoff training and matching event in Denver, Colorado. As part of the peer-to-peer matching of protégé WIBs with mentoring WIBs, Southwest Missouri was paired with the WIB of South Central Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, PA.
The Pennsylvania group will consult Southwest Missouri on ways to take the WIB to the next level of excellence and impact. The project’s workplan includes consulting and mentoring efforts related to use of Industry Consortium outreach, franchising standards for one-stop career centers, new data intelligence tools, and ways to collaborate across neighboring state lines to improve the Four-State area labor market as a whole.
Officials from the South Central Pennsylvania WIB are tentatively slated to visit Joplin February 5-7. In addition to collaborating with key staff locally, the Pennslyvania group will be meeting with prospective businesses in the Joplin and Monett areas interested in forming industry sector consortium groups along with members of the newly re-organized Four State Health Professions Consortium. Stay in touch with the latest on NBLP by visiting the WIB’s website at ww.workforcezone.net.