workforce development | BEST PRACTICES
No Pressure, No Diamonds
lisaRICE
Lisa Rice is president of Brevard Workforce. For more information visit
www.bwdb.org
A Look Inside Brevard’s Workforce Machine
Managing workforce program responses during a crisis is a balancing act; addressing the myriad of priorities of job seekers, implementing programs to help local businesses create jobs, and assisting efforts…
MILLION $15
National Emergency Grant is intended
primarily to provide businesses an added incentive to hire within
ONE YEAR.
…of economic development organizations to expand and bring new job-creating businesses to the area are all examples of what we do. In Brevard, we’ve got an immense unemployment issue developing, and how we go about securing and managing our resources is helping to steer how our community comes out on the other end. This of course is not news to anyone, but a little
insight into the approach Brevard Workforce is taking to tackle seemingly insurmountable issues may be in order. We’ve done our best to secure needed resources
and have been planning for what’s now on our door- step, but that does not change the gravity of the situation. Even with obtaining more grant funds
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than ever, there is no magic bullet that will fix our intensifying jobs situation right now. There are only incremental steps in the right direction for each of the fronts we are facing, so we have to have faith, manage the stress and dig deep for patience.
Crafting Our Response Brevard Workforce has pulled together local and
state stakeholders, called on industry, and applied for and secured a variety of grants over the past two years to support our missions. It may be hard looking in from the outside to understand exactly how some of these efforts are helping. Studies, for example, may seem frivolous, but they help us to identify real opportunities both inside and outside
The
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