Transcript Build Your Community Network! Orientation & Resource Webinar For Funded Events

Center for Faith Based & Community Initiatives
Build Your Community Network!
Orientation & Resource Webinar
For Funded Events
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Introductions
U.S. Department of Labor, Center for Faith
Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
Erica Pelman
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Performance Excellence Partners (PEP)
Rachel E. Ramirez, Project Manager
Cheryl LeMaster, Project Support
Lyle Neumann, Project Support
Denise Donnahoo, Event Planning
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Local/Regional Events
• #17 WIB (Mahoning County, Ohio)
•Business Employment Skills, Inc. (Local WIB, Peru,
Illinois)
•Capital Region WIB (Albany, New York)
•Center of Workforce Innovations, Inc. (Valparaiso,
Indiana)
•Centralina WDB (Charlotte, North Carolina)
•Greater Austin Area WIB (Austin, Texas)
•Kansas Local WIB #1 (Great Bend, Kansas)
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Local/ Regional Events
Passaic Co. WIB (Totowa, New Jersey)
 Southwest Arkansas WIB (Magnolia, Arkansas)
 Southwest Ohio WIB (Cincinnati, Ohio)
 Washtenaw County Employment and Training
Community Services (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
 Westmoreland-Fayette WIB (Youngwood, Pennsylvania)
 Workforce Board of Northern Cook County (Park
Ridge, Illinois)
 Workforce Development, Inc. (Rochester, Minnesota)
 Missouri Division of Workforce Development WIB
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State Events
Commonwealth
of Virginia
Governor's Council on Workforce Policy
(WIB), AZ
State Employment & Training Commission
(SETC)
Iowa Workforce Development
Maine Jobs Council
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Build Your Community Network Goals!
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Develop relationships with faith-based and community
organizations (FBCOs) not currently under contract
with the One-Stop system.
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Provide information on how to collaborate and make
effective referrals to the workforce system and about
resources and funding for workforce development.
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Develop specific collaborative strategies with FBCOs
to meet local business needs for job ready employees.
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What are you doing to conduct
outreach?
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Where can we look for grassroots
partners?
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Neighborhood Associations/Community Centers;
Religious congregations located in communities you serve,
particularly disadvantaged communities;
Community Action Centers/ Community Development
Associations;
Neighborhood Network Centers
(www.neighborhoodnetworks.org);
Locally-based Associations and Community Centers that specifically
serve minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, young people,
and the elderly;
Local organizations providing clothes, food, shelter, drug treatment
and long-term assistance.
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Who can help us identify faith-based and
community organizations?
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Large national nonprofits or associations with local affiliates
Local networks/ intermediary organizations (Compassion Capital
fund grantees, Mutual Assistance Associations, organizations
organized around specific ethnic group)
Local religious leaders' alliances/ clergy association or ministerial
alliances
Local interfaith councils or coalitions
Local and national foundations
Contacts with local media, in particular religious radio stations and
newspaper sections
Mayor's community or faith-based relations office
Other city and county government social service agencies.
District offices for members of Congress
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How do you plan to facilitate your event to
ensure participants are engaged?
How will you follow-up after your event to
produce valuable collaboration?
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Follow-up Activities Already
Reported
Selecting active attendees as Access Points
 Continued collaborative meetings
 Develop formal Memorandums of Understanding
 Quarterly reporting to encourage additional local
strategic planning meetings
 Host annual best practices meetings with participants
 Web-based discussion board devoted to attendees
 Develop website for information sharing and
networking
 Follow-up survey
 Ask participants to join planning committees
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What challenges are you
encountering or anticipating?
What is working well?
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Outcome Reports
Copy of the agenda
 Strategy and actions developed by
participants
 Continued participant follow-up
 Summary and copies of participant
evaluations
 Attendee roster including agencies
represented
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Technical Assistance Available
Consulting Services for:
◦ Event design and management
◦ Marketing and outreach
◦ Event outcomes, collaboration
design, and follow-up
◦ Registration and posting of
meeting materials
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CFBCI Resources & Tools
CFBCI Online Publications:
http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/pubsmaterials.htm
Real World Practices:
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Faith-Based and Community
Organizations
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Workforce Investment System
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Questions?
Comments?
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Build Your Community Network!
Contact Information
Erica Pelman: [email protected]
 Rachel Ramirez: [email protected]
 Cheryl LeMaster: [email protected]
 Lyle Neumann: [email protected]
 Denise Donnahoo: [email protected]
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THANK YOU &
BEST OF LUCK WITH
YOUR EVENT!
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