Local: Award for Workforce board

April 16, 2008
By Billy Dennis

From a press release:

Central Illinois Workforce Board Receives “Excellence in Innovation Partnership” Award

WHO: Central Illinois Workforce Development Board and Talent Force 21 Partnership.

WHAT: Received the Excellence in Innovative Partnership Award from the Great Lakes Employment and Training Association (GLETA).

The Excellence in Innovative Partnership Award recognizes and honors the outstanding achievement of those One-Stops and their partner organizations whose accomplishments have served to benefit and inspire the workforce development system. It highlights local initiatives within the ten state region the embody the following: innovation, collaboration, replicabilty, quality, performance, sustainability, impact and linkages.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 8, 2008

WHERE: Hilton in Saint Louis Missouri at the GLEATA (Great Lakes Employment and Training Association (GLEATA) Conference.

GLETA is comprised of ten Midwestern states within the US Department of Labor’s Region 5. GLETA provides the following services for workforce development professionals: access to a Midwest network of Workforce Professionals and best practices; information on legislative issues; the opportunity to develop relationships with key policy makers; and support for strong national, state and local workforce associations and training.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Central Illinois Workforce Board has been successful in working to enhance the competitiveness of the regional economy, Board members realize the importance of the development of a long-term investment strategy in order to maintain, grow and accelerate investments to expand the talent development in the region. A public-private partnership to develop a long-term investment strategy was essential for the local workforce system to not only meet the needs of workers and employers in this region but also in improving the public workforce development systems and its policies.

Central Illinois Workforce Board members include leaders from foundations, businesses, educational institutions, economic development, labor, workforce and community and faith-based organizations welcomed the opportunity to being the catalyst for new innovative approaches to workforce development.

In order to begin development of a long-term investment strategy, the Central Illinois Workforce Board convened and built a partnership of 80 community organizations consisting of over 200 business, labor, education, workforce and community and faith-based members. This partnership works together in making central Illinois a learning community.

Through the Talent Force 21 initiative, Talent Drives Prosperity, the partnership addresses the key regional workforce challenges identified in a 2001 community audit, 21st Century Workforce: Central Illinois. The challenges evolve around the critical educational, workforce and economic priorities of the community. These include Central Illinois’: 1) workforce quality; 2) workforce quantity; 3) quality of life; and 4) 21st century workforce (additional information on these challenges and community activities can be accessed at www.workforcenetwork.com).

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