Regional Workforce Recovery Strategies
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Regions experience economic shocks differently based on the shock's effects on the region’s key industries and how the region might leverage or rebuild its unique assets. Workforce agencies are key to customizing a recovery strategy that responds to the local context and focuses on subpopulations who might otherwise experience a slower recovery.
State and local workforce systems have found creative ways to be flexible in providing supportive services, digital access, and rapid response. In doing so, they have created strategic workforce plans which assist in creating goals around quality jobs and strategic partnerships. The following resources provide information and templates which will assist in developing a strategy for training and resourcing workers and in identifying businesses to partner with to ensure that workers have access to quality jobs. Small steps can lead to huge gains in transforming workforce systems in closing the widening disparities of todays' workforce.
When developing strategies to advance economic mobility for low-income individuals and families, cross agency collaboration is important as well as establishing guides for policymaking. Below is a resource that will assist in creating thoughtful and strengthening strategies to consider when working as a state or local team to create upward mobility and economic security.
Many states have developed best practices as related to recovery readiness. Following is a very helpful resource which explores multiple states and their innovative strategies to recover and refresh their workforce system and policies to help serve communities across the nation as they bounce back toward economic prosperity.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2022
- Posted by: Gary Gonzalez
- Posted in: Next Level Now