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Weekly Workforce Updates
The Workforce Florida Weekly Update
provides a mid-week summary of information, activities,
events, and actions relevant to the Florida community
of workforce professionals and partners.
Current Issue:
February 13,
2008
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Updates for 2008
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Lucia
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State Press Releases
2008
2007
2006
- Partnership
Takes Aim at Skilled Construction Worker Shortage (pdf,
14K)
- Florida
Workforce Training Programs Rank Among Top 10 (pdf,
16K)
- Wanted:
Florida Employers Interested in Receiving Grants for
Auto Service Technician Certification (pdf, 16K)
- Governor
Bush Appoints Katherine Wilson as Chair of WFI Board
of Directors (pdf, 14K)
- Working
Families Encouraged to Take Advantage of Tax Credits (pdf,
17K)
2005
- Lt. Governor Jennings Receives National Workforce Development
Award
- Governor
Proclaims September 5-9, 2005 Workforce Development Week
in Florida (pdf, 266K)
- Hudson
Appoints WFI Council-Committee Leaders 05-19-05 (pdf,
14K)
- Governor
Bush Appoints Two to the WFI Board 03-23-05 (pdf,
16K)
- Governor
Bush Appoints Twenty-One To The WFI Board 02-04-05 (pdf,
28K)
- Florida’s
Workforce Partners Encourage Use Of Tax Credit For Working
Families 1-26-05 (pdf, 28K)
Additional press releases...
Workforce Success
Presentations
- Building
Florida’s Workforce Talent-January 24,
2008 (pdf, 2.75M)
- Banner
Centers: Partnering to Build A More Competitive Florida-January
24, 2008 (pdf, 3.02M)
- A
State of Opportunity: Building a Competitive Workforce-January
8, 2008 (pdf, 2.24MB)
- Andra
Cornelius U.S. Senate Committee Testimony (pdf, 191K)
- Keep
the Lights On: Florida’s Energy Workforce Needs - July
9, 2007 (pdf,
415K)
- How Can You Create
a Pipeline of Skilled Talent for Your Local Industries?
Here’s a Great CHOICE! - June 25, 2007 (pdf,
1.12M)
- Vision, Innovation
and Action: A Look at Florida’s
Workforce Success - May 17, 2007 (pdf, 1.48M)
Other News & Reports
- Florida
Prompts TANF Leavers with Cash for Climbing Ladder (pdf,
160K)
- Agency
for Workforce Innovation 2006 Regular Legislative Session
Final Summary (pdf, 42K)
- Changing
Image, Changing Reality (pdf,
19K)
- Notice
of Request by RWB 23 for Extension of Deadline for Local
Action
- BEST
Initiative Background & Award Highlights (pdf,
23K)
- 2005
ETA Recognition of Excellence (ROE) Awards (pdf, 816K)
- Local EDOs and
Workforce Boards: What Stands in the Way of Greater Partnerships?
- Testimony
of C. Austin to U.S. House Committee on Education (pdf,
51K)
- Four Statewide Economic Development, Workforce Organizations Partner To Support Florida's Existing Businesses
- Florida Business Insights
- Integrated
Performance Information (IPI) for Workforce Development:
A Blueprint
for the States (pdf, 193K). This is a guide for states
interested in creating or further developing integrated
performance
information
for workforce development programs. Integrated performance
information reports performance results consistently across
programs, across levels (from institutions to local areas
to states), or for programs as a system.
- State
Certifies Professional Expertise of One-Stop Staff (pdf,
114K)--Posted with permission from the Employment & Training
Reporter, Vol. 36, No. 10, November 1, 2004. Copyright
2004 MII Publications,
Inc.,
- 2004-2009
Statewide Strategic Plan for Economic Development Implementation
Progress Reports - Quarterly status reports on the
progress of achieving each priority recommendation.
- RWB
Section and General Comments concerning "Request for
Information on a Proposed Procurement to Modernize Eligibility
Procurement" (pdf, 61K)
- Biomedical/Biotechnology
in Florida
(pdf)
- 2003
Aviation/Aerospace Assessment-Final Report (pdf,
1.51MB)
- OIG
Review of ACS Services (pdf, 2.15Mb)
- Employment
Protection for Reservists, National Guard Members and
Veterans and Workforce Services to Impacted Employers (pdf)
- Testimony
of Curtis Austin before the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions
- ETR Report: EARNINGS OF
2-YEAR TRANSFERS
BEAT TRADITIONAL COLLEGE GRADS (pdf)
- Regional Targeted
Occupations List for 2007-08
- WFI State-Level Memorandums
of Understanding
- Archived Partners' Reports
Performance Reports
Planning
Workforce News Resources
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