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Angie Webster recognized as Workforce Champion
Angie Webster, Director of Clinical and Professional Development at Bay Area Hospital has been awarded the OWP Workforce Champion Award. For the last two-plus years, Angie has proven to be a vital partner in the development of the healthcare […]
WORKing Together 2018 a Great Success!
Almost 300 workforce development stakeholders convened in Eugene September 26-27 for WORKing Together 2018, the inaugural year for this annual conference.
Featuring 69 speakers from across Oregon, Texas, California and the United Kingdom, 18 breakout sessions were offered to […]
Kim Freeman Recognized as Workforce Champion
Kim Freeman has been recognized with the Workforce Champion Award by Oregon Workforce Partnership. She was presented with this award June 21 at a Board meeting of Clackamas Workforce Partnership.
Kim has been […]
Darryl Spitzer Recognized as Workforce Champion
Darryl Spitzer has received the Workforce Champion Award from Oregon Workforce Parntership. Darryl is the Apprenticeship/Manufacturing and Industrial Technology Program Coordinator for Tillamook Bay Community College. He is an MSSC instructor and teaches classes in Manufacturing, Safety, Quality, and Predictive […]
K-20 Education and Workforce Partners are Linking Up
WorkSystems Partner with OpenSesamen to Launch Online Training
SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2017
We are pleased to announce the launch of Train Oregon, a free program offering over 7,000 online skills training courses to WorkSource customers.
With over 40 WorkSource centers in the state and thousands of Oregonians seeking job training, we […]
Adventures in Manufacturing – Canby High School
Adventures in Manufacturing at Canby High School meets weekly after school to work with business partner, Product Manufacturing, on a Manufacturing project. Students are designing and producing a box that meets several specifications. On March 22nd, three teams presented their […]
Lane County Sector Strategy Talent Match Video
Posted on June 28, 2017
Check out the latest Lane County Sector Strategy Team video focused on the Talent Match Event. Great collaboration among partners!
Never Too Old to Learn!
Tyson was laid off in June of 2015 from a local community college, where he was a Composition instructor and also taught Technical writing. Tyson came to the Yamhill WorkSource Center to complete his “Welcome process”, to comply with one […]
Rethinking in the Workplace
This article was written by Jean VandeMerghel, a Rethinking Job Search Participant.
“In my previous line of work, I worked as a Kitchen and Prep Supervisor for a well-known USDA facility earning 80-60k per year. After 18 years I found […]
OWP Brings Data Sharing Challenges to Light
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On September 18, OWP and partners from Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Department of Human Services and Oregon Employment Department provided testimony at an informational hearing of the House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. The purpose was […]
Program Provides Computer Coding Skills to Young Women
by Cayce Hill
In January 2017, the Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board launched its first Girls Who Code (GWC) clubs in the Coos Bay/North Bend area. In case you haven’t heard of GWC, Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization […]