• California Regional Economies - Industry Clusters of Opportunity User Guide. The two-part California Regional Economies - Industry Clusters of Opportunity User Guide is designed to assist workforce and economic development professionals with the key steps needed to develop economic data sets that can be used to drive decision-making across many areas including strategic planning, investment decisions and policy changes.  The guide provides a step-by-step methodology of how to identify industry clusters of opportunity, and how to use this information for planning, policy and program investment decision-making.

• STATS Indiana. STATS Indiana provides access to thousands of data items related to geographic areas in Indiana and across the nation, and is an outstanding example of a creative partnership between state government and academia.

• Texas Reality Check. The Texas Reality Check Web site is an on-line budget calculator that, with a click of a button, helps students easily find the careers that will pay enough money to sustain their chosen lifestyle.

• Minnesota Occupations In Demand (OID). Minnesota's Occupations In Demand (OID) Data Tool allows users to select, view and download currently available high-demand career opportunity (occupation) data by region.

• District of Columbia Employment Guidebooks. A series of three guidebooks focusing on the construction, health care and hospitality industries.  Each book provides an overview of the national and Washington regional labor market in that industry, working conditions, training and education requirements, top ten occupational projections, average salaries, and industry forecasts.

• What's in a Word - Maybe Your Next Job! (OH). Ohio's "What's in A Word, Maybe Your Next Job" uses the importance of appropriate keyword selection as a basis to successfully guide users through the job search process. 

• Iowa Labor Shed Studies. Iowa's Laborshed studies provide community economic developers and existing or prospective employers with a flexible tool to understand the local labor market and make informed expansion and site selection decisions. 

• OurFactsYourFuture.org. OurFactsYourFuture.org is Montana's website for its Department of Labor and Industry Research and Analysis Bureau that provides users with easy, fully-integrated home page access to all facets of labor market and workforce information.

• ShOW-IT (Shift Share Occupational Workforce and Industrial Tools). Originally designed with economic developers in mind, ShOW-IT, an acronym for Shift-share Occupational Workforce and Industrial Tools, is an extensive database and reporting application for economic analysis developed by North Carolina’s Labor Market Information (LMI) Division. This program allows the user to investigate and analyze 17-year employment data for industries and over seven years for occupations.

• Cobb Talent Inventory (GA). The ultimate goal behind the development of the Cobb (County) Talent Inventory in Georgia was to provide state workforce boards and agencies with a comprehensive workplace database - a flexible model/template - that they can make available to local workforce investment boards (LWIBs) and local workforce development staff.

Preparing our youth for the jobs of today and tomorrow is a key focus on the publicly funded workforce development system.  These two Innovations in Action highlight creative ways that various organizations are partnering together to provide services to those youth most in need of education and training. 

• Project C³ (Connecting Youth to Communities and Careers). Project C³ is a unique partnership between PACER Center, Pathways to Employment, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), the Minnesota Department of Education, and other state and local organizations.  The goal of the project is to improve employment and postsecondary outcomes for youth with disabilities. 

• YouthSource Seattle King County. In King County, Washington the Workforce Development Council and the King County Work Training Program, have created the YouthSource program. YouthSource is a consortium of youth providers offering a full array of opportunities and programs focusing on education, employment and leadership. These services include connections to a full array of youth programs, links to community resources for life stabilization, job readiness & placement and comprehensive case management.

A "How to Guide" breeze presentation on the features of Workforce3One is now posted on the site.  The self-paced tutorial includes step-by-step information on

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For dates and times of upcoming live Webinars, or to find recorded Webinar topics, visit the Workforce³ One home page, and check out the Webinars section on the right side of the page.  A complete listing of recorded Webinars is available when you click the "Recorded Webinars" tab.

Recently Archived:

• Local Employment Dynamics: OnTheMap Version 3.0 (9/17)
• Aerospace Industry: Competency Model Introduction and Validation (9/17)
• Blowing Open the Bottleneck in Nursing Education: An After-Summit Recap and Discussion (Session I 9/9) & (Session II 9/10)
• Youth Common Measure – Literacy/Numeracy Gains Programmatic Viewpoint (9/4)
• Youth Common Measure: Literacy/Numeracy Gains - A Technical Viewpoint (8/27)

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