Career Development Program Network
Why have a Career development program network?
The goal of the CDPNetwork is to make nonprofit organizations a FORCE in the region’s workforce market. The Network is a vehicle for organizations to join forces to address key issues in developing the region’s human resources.
Lofty Missions, Down to Earth Plans
CDPNetwork is helping as this article suggests, member organizations and programs understand the connection between their C&WFD Programs and their Missions. Read more on "Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans" here, and join CDPNetwork if you're also working to ensure that best practices drive your operation and programs.
Providing the Missing Link -- A Model for a Neighborhood-Focused Employment Program
How can a neighborhood program help enough low-income individuals improve their employment and financial standing so that the impacts make a difference to the neighborhood as a whole? This report provides a recommended model stating that -- along with financial incentives to make work pay, and a mix of job search/job development, training and education -- of utmost importance in the delivery of all workforce development activities is the high quality of service.
Workforce Development and Community-Based Organizations
In the fourth of a series of Jobs Initiative policy research briefs, Pete Plastrik of Integral Assets, Inc. and Judith Combes Taylor of Jobs for the Future, look at the challenges facing community-based organizations in a changing labor market.
The above progress report is in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not already have the free Acrobat reader, you may download it HERE.
What is the size and scope of community based career & workforce development programs and services in SWPA?
Workforce Connections and the four Workforce Investment Boards in Southwestern PA have contracted with CDPNetwork Leader FREEdLANCE Group and others to survey non-profit organizations that help individuals in our region prepare for employment, find and keep jobs, or advance in their careers.
Seventy eight agencies report operating 458 different career development programs using over 800 staff, and annual career development program budgets of $44,418,037.00. These budgets and important staff help support 50,786 individuals per year in career transition. For additional information, see the Draft Report attached on Career Development Programs & Services in Southwestern PA
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