State labor pool topic of dicussion in T.F.

POSTED: 11:31 MDT Monday, May 5, 2008

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The Idaho Workforce Development Council will meet Thursday in Twin Falls to discuss strategy and set goals for enhancing the state’s labor pool. The meeting will be in the Herrett Center for Arts and Science on the campus of the College of Southern Idaho.

The council, which oversees Idaho Department of Labor work force development programs, will be joined by Assistant Deputy Secretary Doug Small of the U.S. Department of Labor and members of south central Idaho’s Workforce Development Alliance to formally kick off work on a three-year, $5 million federal grant to develop the skilled workforce needed to foster the region’s expanding industrial base.

The discussion of the federal grant program will run from noon to 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

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Props to Joe Herring & his crew at RIVDA who led the grant effort (and ALL the partners like CSI who are involved in this.)
The program is called WIRED (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development) and funds innovative, entrepreneurial efforts to grow the future workforce. This proposal from the Magic Valley was rated one of the best that the feds received & something that should pay great dividends as it unfolds.
(p.s. for more info on WIRED to date, there's a nice report at www.compete.org)
Comment By Norris
Monday, May 5, 2008 @ 9:31 PM

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