This training will focus on the special challenges that workforce development staff face in approaching employers for jobs open to people with CORIs, coaching program graduates on issues related to CORI, and addressing current employer practices when ex-offenders apply for jobs. This event is offered in collaboration with Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., the … Continue reading Navigating the Evolving CORI System: Jobs, Housing and Education

This Assessment Tools training will focus on soft skills/job readiness assessment tools used in workforce programs for screening and evaluating participants. These skills are often difficult to assess. There will be discussion and activities on using tools that help to assess a participant's readiness to become employed and how to assess their "soft skills" (teamwork, … Continue reading Assessment Tools Training

Attend this half-day training for an overview of the policies, structures, programs, and organizations that make up Massachusetts' workforce development system. This interactive workshop is especially designed for staff in their first year or two of working in education, training, and employment programs- and staff with 10 years experience have found it very helpful as … Continue reading Introduction to Workforce Development

Many organizations in providing workforce development services are seeking new ways to measure the effectiveness of their work, both to make programmatic changes that will heighten their community impact and to make a strong case to funders. This hands-on workshop on the nuts and bolts of evaluating data will help you design and implement an … Continue reading What’s the Data Telling Us? Using Evaluation to Improve Outcomes